This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade English Language Arts. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink 5th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

In this activity, students will select one person listed from the American Revolutionary War Era whom they will research then create a visual of the person and present knowledge gained about the historical figure to the class.

After researching facts pertaining to a person/topic from the Reconstruction Era in American History, students will organize their facts to write a speech. Afterwards, students will create a character who will give the speech and share the speech through a multimedia presentation such as Power Point, Voki or other approved presentation media.

During a unit on financial literacy, this lesson gives students the chance to consider the options that consumers face when dealing with their money and to observe what happens to money when consumers make different decisions about how to use it. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Within this lesson students will pretend to go through the water cycle and then create a story of what it was like from their point of view. They will share their version of events with their classmates through a vlog format.