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Language Arts Links

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Read-opoloy Challenge
fourth-grade-sight-word-list.pdf

parent_pipeline_~_check_for_understanding.pdf

parent_pipeline_-_use_prior_knowledge_to_connect_with_text.pdf

Science Links

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Light and Shadows


REFLECTION AND REFRACTION...
Watch the demonstration of how light is refracted with a convex, concave and rectangular pieces of glass.

HOW EYES WORK...

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Learn about your visual sense

READ MORE ABOUT EYES HERE


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Your eyes see, but how does vision happen? Find out how the eyes and brain work together in this eye video.
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Try out some of these illusions and discover just how tricky it can be for your brain to accurately interpret the images from your eyes.


Waste in Our World


https://www.turtlediary.com/game/recycling-waste.htmlSorting

SIMPLE MACHINES

Resources and activities
  1. PowerKnowledge: Levers Powerknowledge has 9 sections on levers. Videos, web links, games, listen feature, and a list of science experiments are included.
  2. PowerKnowledge: Simple Machines  Powerknowledge has 11 sections on simple machines. 
  3. Students Click HERE for a Kahoot Game on Simple Machines made by Mrs. McClements. Teachers Click HERE to begin the review game.
  4. All About Simple Machines
  5. Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Simple Machines
  6. Simple Machines Test 18 questions
  7. Simple Machines Game from the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
  8. Wonderville.ca: Medieval Levers
  9. Wonderville.ca: Robot Factory Become factory boss with Crash and build robots to help him accomplish his tasks. Learn about wheels and levers and simple machines to create a successful robot factory.
  10. Simple and Complex Machines (Lab) These labs will help students recognize simple machines as they are used by them and around them.
  11. Simple Machines Game Help Twitch collect the parts to repair a robot by using 4 different types of simple machines: an inclined plane, lever, wheel and axle, and pulley.
  12. Sid the Science Kid: Balancing Act Move the birds and add bird seed to the feeder to balance the lever. Look for the baby birds and watch the cocoon hatch into a beautiful butterfly.
  13. Beacon Learning Centre- Click the pictures to learn more about simple machines.
  14. Wheels and Levers lyrics; fun!
  15. OK Go video featuring a Rube Goldberg machine.

Social Studies Links

Resources
ReadWriteThink Pourquoi tales activity

Very fun and engaging McCord Museum Fur Trade Game. Print the cards and students take roles. 
Fur Trade Game.pdf  Fur trading Game Cards.pdf  Fur Trading Game Dice.pdf

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta 
The Glenbow Museum has an interactive collection of topics featuring the history of Alberta. Topics include settlers, first nations people, police, ranchers, railways, immigrants, politicians and oil discovery.


First Nations/Aboriginal peoples
Alberta's Francophone Population
The FurTrade in Alberta
Alberta Settlements
European ImmigrationAlberta's Metis

A Little History.com
historic photos and accounts of life in Western Canada,  Mounties, homesteading, life on the farm.

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Math Links

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Teaching Mental Computation Strategies 

The development of mental math skills in the classroom should go beyond drill and practice by providing exercises that are meaningful in a mathematical sense. All of the strategies presented in this guide emphasize learning based on an understanding of the underlying logic of mathematics. 
 1. Represent and describe whole numbers to 10 000, pictorially and symbolically.

2.  Compare and order numbers to  10 000.
  1.  Study Jams - Order Whole Numbers- includes a teaching video, key vocabulary, and also has a  “test yourself” section
3. Demonstrate an understanding of addition of numbers with answers to 10 000 and their corresponding subtractions (limited to 3- and 4-digit numerals) by:
using personal strategies for adding and subtracting
estimating sums and differences
solving problems involving addition and subtraction.
  1. BASIC FACTS (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
  2. Interactive Addition (Gamequarium)
  3. Glowla's Estimation Contraption - Use Glowla's contraption to estimate the answers to her questions
  4. Leon's Math Dojo (click Maybe later)
  5. Hoops! All word problems use whole numbers only but the problems range from single step addition to multistep equations.
  6. Dare To Compare! (Test your problem solving skills) Select Mathematics, your grade level and # of questions.
  7. Algebraic Reasoning - Find the value of a given object based on information provided by two scales.
  8. PROBLEM SOLVING - Leon Math Problems
  9. That's A Fact (Become a math whiz!)
4. Apply the properties of 0 and 1 for multiplication and the property of 1 for division.
5. Describe and apply mental mathematics strategies such as: 
  • skip counting from a known fact 
  • using doubling or halving 
  • using doubling or halving and adding or subtracting one more group *using patterns in the 9s facts 
  • using repeated doubling to determine basic multiplication facts to 9 × 9 and related division facts.
  1. Power Lines 1 - Mathematical reasoning level 1
  2. Power Lines 2 - Mathematical reasoning level 2
  3. Power Lines 3 - Mathematical reasoning level 3
  4. Sudoku Online (choose from various levels)
  5. Algebra Puzzle- Find the value of each of the three objects presented in the puzzle
  6. Number Puzzle - Use mental math skills to solve a pyramid number puzzle.
  7. Sudoku Online (choose from various levels)
6. Demonstrate an understanding of multiplication (2- or 3-digit by 1-digit) to solve problems by
  • using personal strategies for multiplication with and without concrete materials
  • using arrays to represent multiplication connecting concrete representations to symbolic representations
  • estimating products 
  • applying the distributive property.
  1. Interactive Algebra Quiz-Distributive PropertyDistributive Property Worksheets
  2. Meteor Multiplication Arcademic Skill Builders
  3. Multiplication Grand Prix  Multi-player(Academic Skill Builders)
7. Demonstrate an understanding of division (1-digit divisor and up to 2-digit dividend) to solve problems by:
  • using personal strategies for dividing with and without concrete materials 
  • estimating quotients 
  • relating division to multiplication
8. Demonstrate an understanding of fractions less than or equal to one by using concrete, pictorial and symbolic representations to:
  • name and record fractions for the parts of a whole or a set
  • compare and order fractions
  • model and explain that for different wholes, two identical fractions may not represent the same quantity
  • provide examples of where fractions are used.
  1. Exploring Fractions of a Set with Number Frames
  2. WebMath:  Get a Fraction (get a visual picture)
  3. Make a Match (Match equivalent proper fractions)
  4. Fraction Game This NCTM Illuminations page is an interactive tool involving a flash card type fraction game. .
  5. Fishy Fractions Comparing Fractions (click Maybe later to go directly to the activity)
  6. Identify Fractions with Lines instruction and practice in identifying the numerator and denominator.
9. Represent and describe decimals (tenths and hundredths), concretely, pictorially and symbolically.
10. Relate decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals (to hundredths).
11. Demonstrate an understanding of addition and subtraction of decimals (limited to hundredths) by:
  • using personal strategies to determine sums and differences
  • estimating sums and differences
  • using mental mathematics strategies to solve problems 
Grade Four Math Problem Solving
Grand Slam Math (adding and subtracting) is an interactive program designed to help you become better at solving word problems. The questions start out easy and get a little harder as you go. Don't worry, we won't throw too many curve balls! Take your time, read the questions carefully, and have fun with math!
Word Problem Database Hundreds of self-checking math word problems for students in grades 1 to 6. There are currently 675 word problems available.
 Word Problems with Katie is an interactive program designed to help you become better at solving math word problems. 
Thinking Blocks - Model and solve word problems


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Mastering Multiplication Facts


www.multiplication.com www.aplusmath.com www.mathisfun.com www.learnyourtables.co.uk www.mathplayground.com www.fun4thebrain.com www.jmathpage.com www.mltfx.com www.coolmath4kids.com www.ixl.com www.learninggamesforkids.com 


Mental Math 

While learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts, for instance, students learn about the properties of these operations to facilitate mastery. They apply the commutative property of addition and multiplication, for example, when they discover that 3 + 7 is the same as 7 + 3 or that 3 x 7 = 7 x 3. Knowing this greatly reduces the number of facts that need to be memorized. They use the distributive property when they learn that 12 x 7 is the same as (10 + 2) x 7 = (7 x 10) + (2 x 7) which is equal to 70 + 14 = 84. 



Here some practice booklets that will serve as an excellent source of additional review material for our unit test.  Questions and problems in this book capture the major concepts that span the entire unit, with a similar question style to the exam.
Review of this book will take place the day prior to our unit test, but should primarily be done at home on an individual basis, so students know which lessons they need to practice a little bit more!!

practice_booklet_for_multiplication_and_division.docx
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practice_booklet_for_number_sense_1.docx
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extra_practice_booklet_-_patterns_and_equations.docx
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extra_practice-_stats__probability.doc
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Math is divided into Major Units of study

Patterns and Equations This unit will be the first we study in grade 5.  During this unit, you will become able to demonstrate: pattern rules, how each element in a pattern differs from the previous one, why a number is or is not the next element, predict the next term, use a variable to describe a pattern, and use a variable to write an equation.

Multiplying and Dividing Whole Numbers In grade 4 you were introduced to multiplication and division, and in grade 5 we will keep building on these basic skills by learning how to: multiply 2 digits by 2 digit number and solve long division equations with 1 digit divisors and 3 digit dividends.

Whole Numbers Whole numbers are the second unit we will work with this year.  By the end of this unit, you will be able to demonstrate: the meaning of each number in a given numeral, estimation strategies, and compatible numbers.

Measurement In the measurement unit, much like the other units, skills from grade 4 and earlier will be built upon.  This unit will prepare you with the skills to demonstrate relationships among perimeter, shape, and area, estimate volume and capacity, and know-how to work with various units of length.
Fractions and Decimals Fractions and decimals are another unit that builds off what was learned in grade 4.  In grade 5 we will go through describing and understanding: sets of equivalent fractions, comparison of fractions with like and unlike denominators, decimals to the tenths, hundredths, and thousandths, relationships between fractions and decimals, comparing and ordering decimals, predicting sums and differences of decimals.
Geometry, Geometry involves two different levels of understanding; the first is conceptual understanding and the second is procedural understanding.  For Conceptual understanding, we will be going over how to explain and estimate: edges, faces, sides, and line segments that are parallel, intersecting, vertical and horizontal.  We also will learn about the attributes of quadrilaterals.  
Next, for procedural understanding, students will demonstrate their ability to: identify and draw parallel, intersecting, perpendicular, vertical, horizontal edges, faces, sides, and line segments.  Also, it is important to be able to identify and sort rectangles, squares, trapezoids, parallelograms, and rhombuses.

Statistics and Probability Statistics and probability involve the following outcomes: understanding by explaining and demonstrating the difference between first-hand and second-hand data, drawing conclusions that can be made from a bar graph, figuring out the likelihood of a given outcome, and determining the relative likelihood of two outcomes.  We will also spend a lot of time on accurately interpreting bar graphs as well as constructing double bar graphs including labels and legends.  Extended thinking is also required in this unit whereby students will be asked to design and conduct probability experiments to demonstrate and investigate the likelihood of outcomes.