Learning Guide: Fifth Grade

In the Classroom

Teachers will show students how to...

• Pull ideas together; investigate complex questions; develop techniques for organizing a written report or story, such as outline, list, note cards; learn debating skills.
• Write stories with a fully developed beginning, middle and end; create poetry; write reports on assigned topics.
• Break down numbers into factors; perform long division comfortably; multiply and divide decimals; add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.
• Convert, compare, and compute with common units of measure; compare and contrast angles in relation to right angles.
• Understand that nations are interdependent and make alliances to promote common interests; discuss complexities of families; learn concepts of latitude and longitude on globes and maps.
• Learn to use a microscope; observe phenomena associated with electricity, light, and sound.