5th Grade

These task cards cover the basic skills a fifth grader should know from mousing to keyboarding to learning how to treat technology devices. 

Learning to Copy and Paste
Learning to copy and paste is an important skill to learn. Students will learn how to highlight text, copy it, and then paste it into a document. Students will have fun adding text to National Geographic's Funny Fill-ins and then will copy and paste the completed story into a word document. 

Shortcuts
Students enjoy being proficient in using technology shortcuts and teaching the skill to others. Some shortcuts are fairly common across all devices and applications and others are specific to a device. Being familiar with shortcuts helps students transfer the skill to other applications and devices.

Text to Speech
There are FREE amazing tools that will read text to you. These tools help students to listen to what they have written, listen to another person's work, and some will even allow you to transfer the audio to an mp3 player.

These task cards cover apps and programs that can be used across multiple age levels and curriculums. They are primarily how-to task cards on how to use the application in the classroom. 

3D Pens
3D pens are an easy way to create a 3D object. You can design from scratch or use a template. Students can develop motor skills and skills in spatial thinking, creativity and imagination, planning and organization, attention to details, and hand-eye coordination. 

Assess With Edulastic
Edulastic is a free online assessment platform that provides teachers a customizable and time-saving solution for assigning tests, quizzes, or worksheets to their students. This also has auto-grading and instant data, along with incorporating audio files, videos, and images into your tests. Note: This can be used with Kindergarten- 12th grade.

Assess With PlayPosit
PlayPosit is an interactive video platform that allows the teacher to take videos from different sources and edit them.   As teachers add pauses (questions) at regular intervals, it keeps the students actively engaged.  Students can also rewind to find the answers.

Basics of Quizlet
Quizlet allows students to study using tools and games.  There are thousands of study sets already created, or teachers and students can create their own.  When students find a study set, they can choose from different study mode buttons (flashcards, learn, write, spell, test, match, gravity).  They can also choose to play live against other students. Students of all ages can use this application. 

Blooket Fun
Blooket is an engaging classroom game that allows students to review various classroom skills, concepts, and topics. This task card explains the application and how to use it with students. 

Chromebook Superpowers
Using a simple KWL chart on a Google Doc, students can collaborate and acquire shortcuts for using a Chromebook (or just the Chrome browser) more efficiently.

Classkick
Classkick is a free online site that lets teachers create and share assignments.  As students work from iPads or Chromebooks, teachers can monitor them and give feedback in real-time. Teachers can also create rosters via class code, enter manually, or use Google Classroom.

Classroomscreen Tools for the Teacher  
Teachers are able to use this Classroom Screen in their classroom in a variety of ways. There are 21 widgets to support class activities and help students get to work. 

Communicate With Bloomz
Bloomz is a communication platform that helps students succeed in the classroom and at home. It is a great tool to use to stay connected in the school community and send real-time messages to a class or person. Parents and students can view a calendar, view behavior, sign up for conferences or volunteer work, and view photos from both the website or an app. Students will enjoy seeing the petals bloom as they watch behavior points blossom into a flower.

Communicating With Parents Using Klassroom
Klassroom is an app that teachers and parents can download to their phones to easily communicate and engage with each other. Teachers can post assignments, add events, schedule conferences, and upload pictures. This is very similar to Facebook.

Connect With Class Dojo
ClassDojo connects teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities by creating a positive culture. Teachers can encourage students for any skill or value — whether it is working hard, being kind, helping others, or something else.

Connect With Padlet
Padlet is an online post-it-like board that you can use as an easy collaboration platform for students. Padlets can be created by you or students. Once created, a student can share ideas and comment on other students as well. Note: Padlet is no longer free. You can create three for free. Please check the pricing structure. 

Create Custom Activities With Wordwall
Wordwall is a free resource for teachers to create interactive and printable activities. These can be played on any web-enabled device. Students can play individually or with each other.  

Creating a Graphic Organizer
Lucidchart is a visual platform for creating flowcharts and graphic organizers in real-time. Students under the guidance of teachers can use the free version. 

Digital Learning for Kids
e-Learning for Kids is an educational website for kids grades K-5. Lessons are organized by grade level as well as skill topics. Students can easily sort the lessons and then select the lesson they want to work on. They are guided through the lesson with a cartoon video-audio and prompts. 
 

Edpuzzle - Interactive Video Lessons
Edpuzzle allows students to interactively engage with videos through audio notes and questioning. Teachers can use the videos already uploaded, crop, or upload their own. It automatically records students' grades, allows equation options for math, and also allows voice-over. This can be used by students of all ages.

Exploring in Minecraft
Students will create a world on Minecraft. They will eat, explore, and tell the difference between creative, survival, and exploration modes while placing and destroying blocks.

Fast and Curious Eduprotocol
Begin the week’s vocabulary words with a short 10-15 questions round of Quizizz (in live mode). After round one, do a mini-lesson on common mistakes and then give the quiz again to see tremendous growth. Continue reps throughout the week for mastery.

Freckle
Freckle is a FREE website that provides online learning in math, science, social studies, and English language arts. Students take a pretest and then their individualized learning plan begins.
 

Fun 4 the Brain
Fun4thebrain is a website for students PreK-5 that has many different activities in all content areas for students.

Gimkit
Gimkit is an easy to set up group quiz-based assessment tool which is fast-paced. Teachers do not need to prompt questions. Gimkit also has a monetization component where students build up in-game cash that can then be used to purchase in-game upgrades. You can also paste any Quizlet into Gimkit.

Hooray! Go Formative!
Go Formative! is a web-based tool that allows teachers to formatively assess students on the fly, or at the beginning and end of a lesson. Teachers create the assessment, and students complete the assessment online. 
 

Improving Reading and Listening Skills With Immersive Reader
Immersive Reader is a free assistive tech tool for Office 365 that brings assistive technology tools into the Office 365 environment to improve reading and writing.  Immersive Reader can improve reading comprehension and increase fluency for English language learners.

Interactive Images With Thinglink
Thinglink allows teachers to create visual learning materials and virtual tours, empowers students to work on projects and assignments using text, voice, photos, and video.

Interactive Lessons with Insert Learning
InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that turns websites into interactive lessons. As long as students have a Google login and password, a Chromebook or Chrome extension on a computer, they can log in or be assigned an assignment by the teacher through Google Classroom. 

Interactive Lessons With Nearpod
Nearpod is an online site where a teacher can create and import interactive lessons along with online assessments, polls, virtual field trips, etc. Teachers share a live session, students enter a code, and the lesson is synced to all devices.

Kahoot
Kahoot! is a free tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game-based classroom response system played by the whole class in real-time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer. 

Learning With Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts is a communication platform that includes instant messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features. With Google Hangouts, classrooms can connect with each other and collaborate on various topics.

Lino Narrative Task
Lino offers the capacity to post sticky notes on a canvas using a web browser. The teacher may create a canvas and share the link with the class. The students do not have to log in to collaborate. Students may collaboratively post color-coded sticky notes, share images, links, etc. to the canvas.

Loom Video Recording
Loom is a free extension to make recordings of Chromebook screen, a combination of a person and the screen, or just a person to create a video with sharing capabilities. Students are able to create recordings to teach others about a subject, an application or website they are using. 

Mentimeter Interactive Quiz
Mentimeter is a free resource teachers can use to create fun and interactive presentations. The teacher will create a multiple choice quiz and students will answer each question in real-time.

Make Your Ideas Pop!
Popplet is a web-based and app-based tool that allows students to mind map their ideas with user-friendly functions. Students can create brainstorming webs easily and collaboratively. Students learn about United States symbols. 

Mystery Doug
Mystery Doug is a FREE weekly video series where students ask questions. The videos are short, approximately five minutes long. 

Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Math Playground provides grade-level appropriate activities for math operations and algebraic thinking with a variety of activities to engage students and strengthen their skills. It can be used in grades one-six. 

Organize Your Classroom With Showbie
Showbie is an app used by teachers to assign, collect, and review student work. Showbie keeps student work organized by classes and assignments. Students can see their upcoming assignments. Teachers can upload documents for students to access and complete the assignment. Teachers can comment on student’s work.

Pear Deck Interactive Slide Presentation
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation teachers use to enhance engagement in learning. Students will use their Chromebook to follow along with the teacher’s slideshow. Throughout the presentation students will answer a variety of questions, including drawing, dragging, text, number, and multiple choice. Teachers will receive instant feedback and can then discuss this feedback with students.

Presenting With Buncee
Buncee is a presentation tool that allows students to create content that is unique to them and their learning experiences. Buncee offers free public domain images, the ability to embed videos, and upload content, as well as interactive materials, colorful backgrounds, and fun templates. Note: A free Buncee account allows up to five Buncees. 

QR Code Your Learning
QR codes are everywhere! So what are they all about? Students will be able to create a QR code to share a digital artifact with parents, students and teachers.

Quizalize - Engaging Your Students in Learning
Quizalize is an online platform where teachers can create quizzes to test students’ knowledge and see results in the teacher dashboard. Teachers can also choose from over 12,000 pre-made quizzes. This is great to use as a pre-assessment tool to see which students need intervention or enrichment.  Teachers can then use it as a formative assessment to check for understanding. Students can also create their own quizzes to be used by classmates.  

Remind - A Communication Tool
Remind is a communication platform that helps students succeed in the classroom and at home. It’s a great tool to use to stay connected in the school community and send real-time messages to a class or person.  

Review Game Zone
Review Game Zone is a free online interactive game that helps prepare the students for tests and quizzes. Teacher generated study questions are inserted into the school game to help reinforce classroom learning and test preparation for students.

Smarty Games
Smarty Games is a fun interactive website that helps to develop creativity, visualization, problem-solving skills, math skills and the curiosity for knowledge. It is very easy to understand.  It can help students be more successful with their elementary school curriculum. It is kid-friendly, safe and FREE!

Socrative Exit Tickets
Socrative, an online student response system, quickly assesses students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. The teacher can use the auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to most effectively drive learning. 

Storyboarding
Storyboard That is an online storyboard that is like a graphic organizer. It can be used by students and teachers to create storyboards using motion picture, animation, motion graphics, and interactive media.

Sumo Paint
Sumo Paint is a free online paint program and image editor similar to Photoshop. Flash is required for this site and ads are present.

Symbaloo For Educators
SymbalooEDU is a bookmarking website that helps teachers and students organize their favorite websites. This is a resource management tool that can be used to organize lesson plans, add links, web pages, or any other content that would be helpful for your students. You can organize the tiles by subject, grade, or however you want. 

Ted Talk Back to School
Ted Talks is a free website that covers a variety of topics. You can use Ted Talks effectively in your classroom through video. This can be used for elementary, middle school, and high school depending on the subject area. It brings together the brightest and best in a broad spectrum of fields, like technology, engineering, music, and more. Ted Talks helps get students thinking critically.

Testmoz - Auto-graded Tests and Quizzes
Testmoz is a web tool that allows teachers to create auto-graded tests and quizzes. You can choose four types of questions - multiple-choice, true/false, multiple response, and fill in the blank. Without an account, you are allowed 50 questions for each test.

Text to Speech
There are FREE amazing tools that will read the text to you. These tools help students to listen to what they have written, listen to another person's work, and some will even allow you to transfer the audio to an mp3 player. 

Students will learn more about coding and maker resources. There are activities to better understand computational thinking and how it can be applied when working on projects.

Battleship Spreadsheet
Innovator Eric Curts has coded this marvelous Google Sheets template to create a fantastic game of Battleship. It may be used to introduce students to useful tech skills such as how to share, use of revision history, locate specific cells and enter data. 

Characterization Through Coding
Students will apply their knowledge of characterization by coding a sample character’s thought, actions, and words.

Lesson credit to Google CS First Curriculum

Coding Punch Cards
So you have robots...now what? How do you manage them? These coding punch cards can be customized and used to offer students activity choices while managing your learning environment.

Create Your Own Sprite
When students are learning to code they use often sprites as icons to move around the screen. Piskel is a free online sprite creator for creating animated sprites and pixel art.
 

Dash Dance Party
Coding with Dash is so much fun! Using the Blockly app, students will be able to utilize block coding to plan, create, and execute a dance for Dash. This task card could be used with grades 3-5. This task card will take two-three class periods.

Fizzbits -  Add Fun To Your Maker Creations
Whether you build with paper or design something to print in 3D, the simple addition of a USB charged fizzbit vibrating motor can make your creation come alive. A Fizzbit, a product you currently must order from the UK, can easily be attached to a 3D printed object or papercraft character to make them vibrate and move. 

Let's Learn to Play Chess
ChessKids is a website that teaches children how to play the game of Chess. It walks them through the game, has tutorials, puzzles and involves the child. It helps to keep them motivated as they are learning the game and improving their skills. It also helps with critical thinking skills.

Gamify Robots
Learn how to use your Robots (e.g., Code and Go Mice, Dash, and Spheros) by gaming. Gaming creates a high-interest, team-building, and problem-solving approach to using the robots, and the games are easily adapted to most robots and many levels.

In a Pickle With Math
Math Pickle is a resource filled with math puzzles and games to engage students in problem-solving. Puzzles are organized by grade level and subject.
 

Light Up Learning With Microbits
Students will use knowledge of coding to create a closed circuit. Microbits will be required for this activity. 

Lightbot Coding
Coding or programming is the way that we as programmers, can tell a computer what to do using instructions that the computer will understand. The instruction for coding can be either in words or icons. Lightbot is a programming puzzle game.

Logic Puzzles
Computational thinking is a powerful skill that students need to learn. A great place to start is puzzles! Students love to solve puzzles and it helps develop reasoning skills useful for programming, computer science, and anything they might do. 

Paper Circuit Greeting Cards
Students will use knowledge of series circuits to create a closed circuit greeting card.

Survey Says
Students are presented with a scenario surrounding a relevant contemporary public issue on which they can take a stand. Students will work together to create a survey that will then be shared with various groups, in order to analyze the ways in which certain groups perceive a given issue. Once collected, the data will be discussed and analyzed. Finally, students will support their opinion using the data collected.

Unplugged: What is Computational Thinking?
Computational Thinking and coding go hand-in-hand. But what does it mean to think computationally, and how do we introduce this type of thinking to students? In this unplugged activity, students experience what it’s like to be a programmer while they code another student to complete a drawing.  

These task cards assist the student in communicating and presenting creatively in different ways.

Common Good Collaborating
Google Sites are a great platform to communicate both locally & globally. They are easy to set up for your students and easy to link information both individually for your students as well as setting up a group or classroom page. 

Communicate With Bloomz
Bloomz is a communication platform that helps students succeed in the classroom and at home. It is a great tool to use to stay connected in the school community and send real-time messages to a class or person. Parents and students can view a calendar, view behavior, sign up for conferences or volunteer work, and view photos from both the website or an app. Students will enjoy seeing the petals bloom as they watch behavior points blossom into a flower.

Communicating With Parents Using Klassroom
Klassroom is an app that teachers and parents can download to their phones to easily communicate and engage with each other. Teachers can post assignments, add events, schedule conferences, and upload pictures. This is very similar to Facebook.

Connect With Class Dojo
ClassDojo connects teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities by creating a positive culture. Teachers can encourage students for any skill or value — whether it is working hard, being kind, helping others, or something else.

Express Yourself
Students will do research on a topic, after which they will present their findings in a creative, visual manner. Utilizing information from a variety of resources, students will create an original infographic.
 

Infographic Timeline
How to edit and create an infographic may be taught in under 20 minutes, however, students will need additional time to complete research on an assigned topic such as this task where a group of students will collaborate, research and create a timeline of the American Revolution.

Parlay Ideas
Parlay is a written discussion activity that increases student voice and encourages a diversity of perspectives. Students will join discussions, provide constructive feedback, and build on each other's ideas.

Publish a Collaborative Research Project With Google Slides
Students will use Google Slides to publish a research project. This project will include links to other slides and information from the internet. Students will also search and add images from the internet and video to support their topic. 

Solving Problems Together
Problems get solved when people work together. Students will choose a problem or issue from their local community that needs a solution. They will create a Google Form that will be used to gather community opinions and perceptions to help create a solution to a local issue. 

Storytelling With Google Slides
In this lesson, students will take a story they have written and publish it using Google Slides or PowerPoint. They will be able to insert pictures and speech bubbles to make their story come to life for their audience.

Video Remix
Students love to express themselves with images and videos. As we know there is a plethora of images and video readily available on the Internet for use in remixing other materials to create something new. Students can use public domain images and videos to remix for an assigned school project. 

Wakelet Digital Storytelling
Wakelet is a free platform where teachers and students can save/post links, videos, images, and articles. You can easily share your page with others. Collaborators can also add notes or comments to each item. Students will be telling a story with multimedia to engage their viewers. 

What's the Issue
Students will create a short screencast that helps present a local or global issue to a wider audience. The screencast will include a voiced narration presenting an idea on how to solve the issue and requesting ideas in return. After considering the feedback received students will create a new screencast to present the ideas.

Working Together to Stop Bullying
Students will obtain multiple viewpoints on the issue of bullying and brainstorm possible solutions, with peers, educators, and parents, via video-conferencing. After collaborating with at least two individuals directly impacted by bullying, the class will create a “No Bullying” campaign based on solutions discussed during the video- conferences and the class discussions.

Ziteboard Collaboration
Ziteboard is a free online whiteboard with real-time collaboration. It can be used for brainstorming, presentation and communicating. Not only can you use tools that are provided, but pictures and voice can also be inserted.

Design Thinking is a process that teachers use to take a structured approach to generate and develop ideas. The task cards in this area help teach the design process. 

Roller Coaster Challenge
Students will design a fun and safe roller coaster with at least one loop. Students start by simulating a coaster with Amusement Park Physics.  After simulating a coaster and understanding how to design a safe and fun coaster, students use the design process to create a prototype coaster for an amusement park.

Strawbees Egg Drop Challenge
Do the egg drop challenge with Strawbees! Have the students be innovative designers and construct a model for the egg with the Strawbees so when it is dropped, it will not break. The students are learning about force and gravity. Using technology they can gather information to look at how they can develop the best model. 

These task cards teach students about art, photography, videography, music, etc. 

Adventures in Summer
Students will be creating a virtual collage of their summer using canva.com. They will be able to upload pictures of their own or use stock photos on the site, use a background, and include text telling a little bit about their summer through labels.

Express Your Musicality
It is a lot of fun to create music and Incredibox makes it easy using a beatbox technique along with dragging and dropping sound icons on different characters to create music. Students can easily create a music track in seconds and download it as background music in a project. 

Frayer Model Google Draw
The Frayer Model is an instructional strategy that helps students learn new concepts by using examples and non-examples. By combining this instructional strategy with Google Draw, teachers may quickly customize and disburse organizers for classroom use and also improve student engagement.

Incredibox Song Composition
The learner will use Incredibox (website or app) to create an a capella song that will accompany a piece of their (creative) writing. Using Incredibox, students will create a mix of seven individuals who sing/beatbox/make sound effects.

Me: A Work of Arts
The learner will use a Google Slide template to create an “All About Me” using photos, artwork, etc.  They will then create a song (score) using Incredibox to go along with their slide. When finished, they will present to the class.  This could also be done on PowerPoint.

Pop Art Image Editing
Students may create new images in the style of Andy Warhol while learning photo editing skills. The Pixlr photo editor is a free site where students may create or modify images and then download them for use on other projects.

Stop Motion Animation
Your students will love stop-motion animation for movie making. There is a free app for both Android and iOS that your students can use, but there are in-app purchases that may be necessary for any extra features needed for a professional-looking product. 

Sumo Paint
Sumo Paint is a free online paint program and image editor similar to Photoshop. 

Using Chrome Music Lab to Create Music Digitally
In this lesson, students will become more advanced in their understanding of music by creating their own music with Chrome Music Lab.

You Gotta Have Art
Art inspires students to do well in and out of the classroom. Students that have art may stay in school, be more motivated, have a positive attitude, and it may improve academic performance. Students will “tour” the free website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and learn about art from around the world.

These task cards have activities to teach students about how to be a good citizen, stay safe on the Internet and prevent bullying. 

Becoming a Confident Internet Explorer
Interland is an online game created by Google, that provides learning about digital citizenship through gaming. Internauts are characters in the game. Students practice the skills that they need to be confident online explorers.

Citations in Google Docs
Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for students to keep track of citations to their articles. When students are using Google Docs to write their papers, they can easily link and cite the articles used for references. 

Organizing Research In Google Docs
Students will learn how to use the Explore feature in Google Docs. Students will create a two-column table to organize their research. Finally, students will utilize the citation tool to correctly cite their research.

Evaluating Websites HyperDoc
Students will learn how to evaluate a website while using a HyperDoc in a group task. Hyperdocs are interactive digital documents that may easily be edited by a teacher. These multimedia-rich documents contain links for research, videos, images, etc. along with the steps for students to follow and record their work. 

Media Literacy Digital Breakout
Students will complete a digital breakout with a Google site and Google Form to learn about the role that media literacy plays in their ability to understand, analyze, and critically evaluate media messages.

Properly Citing Sources
Students write an essay expressing their opinion, wherein they choose an influential person and explain why this person should be included within a list of most influential people of all time. In order to ensure that students are respecting the rights of others, they will use an online tool for generating citations to cite sources within a bibliography.

Safe Search
When using either of these two search engines, Google and Bing will filter out explicit and violent content from search results (web sites, images and videos.) Unfortunately, Safe Search is not perfect, but there will be much less unsuitable content and we know students are going to use these search engines when doing research. 

Stop the Plagiarism
Students need to learn early on how important it is to create original work. Luckily there are digital tools to help students ensure that when they are doing their research that they are not copying the work of others. 

Working Together to Stop Bullying
Students will obtain multiple viewpoints on the issue of bullying and brainstorm possible solutions, with peers, educators, and parents, via video-conferencing. After collaborating with at least two individuals directly impacted by bullying, the class will create a “No Bullying” campaign based on solutions discussed during the video- conferences and the class discussions.