FIFTH GRADE LIBRARY
MEDIA PROJECTS
LINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KBEARS: Geo World - learn about countries around the world.
The Buried Treasure of Captain Kidd - A 4th or 5th Grade History, Geography and Information Literacy WebQuest.
Name The Genre - a game to review your knowledge of various books.
What are Primary Sources? - students have to identify primary sources and justify their answers.
Causes of the Civil War: Document-Based Questions - scaffold questions using historical documents and primary sources to support the 5th grade social studies performance standards and assessments.
The Big6 Assignment Organizer - A step-by-step template to help students organize their research process.
Pathfinder for Research - A guide for locating information in three resources.
The Big 6 Research Reflections - a guide to help students reflect on their research project based on the Big 6 process.
Is It Plagiarism? - Students listen to anecdotes about students writing research papers and determine if they have plagiarized. Ask how the student could have avoided plagiarizing his paper.\
Fact Frenzy - Note-taking skills from Read Write Think.org
Baker-Keyhole Essay - outline on how to write a research essay.
Writing the Works Cited page
- how to write the entries for all the sources used in
your research work.
Sample
Works Cited Page
Electronic Portfolio - students reflect on their writing, select their best writing samples and create an electronic portfolio using Powerpoint software.
ENRICHMENT/EXTENSION
Secret Agent: Effects of WWII on The Home Front (DBQ)- a fifth grade Social Studies, Language Arts, and DBQ WebQuest. Scaffold questions using historical documents and primary sources to support the 5th grade social studies performance standards and assessments.
Survivor: The Galapagos Islands - Link's fifth grade multidisciplinary WebQuest on "How to Write a Research Paper".