Blogs

Educational Blogs for Grade 5 1.      http://www.blogged.com/blogs/history-is-elementary.html The title of this blog is History is Elementary. An elementary history teacher blogs about teaching history at the elementary level. Included are postings about actual lessons, content, and opinions about teaching and education in general. The content is related to the themes I use in 5th grade. In fact, pulling up one explorer's name, Amerigo Vespucci, brought me to many other names of explorers we work with in Social Studies. 2.     [|http://www.socialstudiescentral.com] Use to support teachers as they improve their instruction and to help educators engage kids in learning. You will find lesson plans, new web sites, links to standards and assessment advice, technology integration resources and information about workshops and staff development. 3.   http://rachellyash.blogspot.com/2008/11/upper-elementary-reading-lesson-plans.html The title of this blog is Rachel’s Children’s Literature Blog. This blog was written by a elementary education college student. She has compiled a ton of sites for teachers to use with children’s literature and integrating the books into science, math, and social studies. She also has related language arts topics, for example, biography maker, which can be used in writing. 4.      http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/ The title of this blog site is ABC of the Writing Process. This blog provides resources for students and teachers describing writing and the writing process. It discusses the stages of writing and gives many ideas on how to engage students and challenge them. 5.     http://www.math-lessons.ca/blog/ The title of this blog is Math Lessons. This blog offers a variety of math games, worksheets, and math review games. Topics include geometry, fractions, money, measurement, time, maps, etc. As I was playing with the information, I ran into a practice outline map of the USA, which is another area of study right now in my class. This site offers information for primary students and intermediate students.