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Calling all young witches and wizards! Master essential 5th-grade math skills with this enchanting review resource, packed with a Harry Potter theme that will have your students casting spells for success! Engaging week-long activity for Ohio (or any) State Test OR End of Year themed Review. Review key concepts with a magical touch:Dormitory Volume : Master volume of rectangular prisms by calculating various pieces of furniture that will fit into your Hogwarts dorm room!Broom Races, Decimals a

I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. However, it can be used as a stand alone lesson for Adding and Subtracting with Fractions of unlike denominators and Converting Metric Units of Capacity. You do need additional materials for this lesson (list included in materials) to create the "potions" Common Core 5th Grade Math Standards Covered: CC.5.NF.1 Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) CC.5.MD.1 Convert am

This activity could be used as a station or as a stand-alone quick review activity. It focuses on using length, width and height to calculate the volume of a rectangular prism. It also incorporates an optional base area x height to find the volume. Students then compare their calculations to group members' rectangular prisms (created with cubes or legos, not provided in this product). Recording sheet and directions sheet are provided. Could also be used as a reinforcement activity for a miniles

I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. However, it can be used as a stand alone lesson for identifying the attributes/characteristics of polygons (specifically quadrilaterals and triangles). This is a fun activity that my students LOVE because it incorporates art. I also usually play the "Herbology" scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (found on youtube or bring in your own DVD) to introduce it. 5th Grade Math Standards Covered: 5.G.B

Before Thanksgiving break, kids get ansty! Get them out of their seats with this math activity that requires them to use: -group work (recommended to work with students of similar math abilities) -critical thinking -logical reasoning -real-life application (how to manage money shopping for Thanksgiving dinner) -multiplication of decimals (or repeated addition of decimals depending upon how far you've taught in your pacing calendar) Provided: -shopping lists (tiered to 5 levels of difficulty) -in

This activity could be used as a station or as a review activity after teaching about categorizing and classifying 2-d shapes based upon specific attributes and characteristics. Game pieces and individual game boards are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Base Ten War, Volume Creation, Long Division Station,and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.

I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. However, it can be used as a stand alone lesson for finding the volume of rectangular prisms and using that information in real world problem solving. It is a hands-on activity where students will construct nets to create a 3-d model of their dorm rooms at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Common Core 5th Grade Math Standards Covered: CC.5.MD.3 Geometric measurement: Recognize volume as an attribu

I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. However, it can be used as a stand alone lesson for writing expressions, graphing ordered pairs on a coordinate grid and creating rules based upon the relationship between two numbers. Common Core 5th Grade Math Standards Covered: CC.5.OA.2 Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them. CC.5.OA.3 I can explain the relationship be

This 40-60 minute lesson addresses the Ohio 5th Grade Social Studies Government Standard of "Understand that data can be displayed graphically to effectively and efficiently communicate information" Included are: -Suggested directions -Links to articles -Slide for example data -Data to be used to create graphs -Worksheet to create bar, line and circle graphs -Script/Summarizer template -Graph Answer keys

This activity can be used as a station or as a review after learning about relationships between digits in the base ten system. It focuses on X10, x100, x1000 the value and 1/10 the value, 1/100 the value and 1/1000 the value. Base 10 relationship question cards are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Volume Creation, Geometry Guess Who, Long Division Station,and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.

I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. We do the unit after spring testing as a fun review of the 5th grade math standards from the year. This is a "broom race" activity. It gets students up and moving outside. Additional needed materials that are not included: stopwatch, 4 brooms Common Core Standards Covered: CC.5.NBT.7: Divide decimals to hundredths CC.5.MD.2: Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2,

This is an activity that could be used as a station, math center or review activity. It focuses on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators. Number cards and operation cards, score keeping card and "Show Your Work" page are provided. An extension for performing operations with mixed numbers is also included if you wanted to turn this into two separate stations. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( B

This activity is a fun Christmas activity that encompasses the 5th grade standards of function tables, writing algebraic equations and plotting coordinates/ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. I have my students get checked after each page before they move on.

This activity can be used a station OR a review activity. It focuses on team work and solving long division problems. It includes 3 long division problems (along with their answer keys for answers rounded to the nearest thousandth) are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Base Ten War, Geometry Guess Who, Hands-On Volume Creation, and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.