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Students will write a letter to the author of the book the student just completed. Students will share their connections, observations, and questions with the author.

Simple rubric to grade sequence of events in a story. Focus: proper capitalization, end marks, sequence order, and vivid details.

Students will create a comic strip.

Identify living and non-living objects.

Design a simple machine that does a simple task through a complex process. Machine must include three simple machines.

Students will know assignment expectations which would include completeness, accuracy, legibility, directions, effort and time management.

Children must present a power point on animal adaptations. Assessed areas are Science- animal adaptations, Sose- mapping and Technology- Powerpoint

Instructions: Procedure: Brainstorm ideas for the location of a made-up city. Include features that would affect the city’s climate, such as mountains or an ocean. Describe the climate characteristics of the city. Identify the type of climate the city has. Show a map of where your city might be located.

Students in a fifth grade class will develop a new character that they believe would fit into the Harry Potter series. Students will create a “bio” on their character using an online concept map listing at least five details about their character, write a short story incorporating/introducing the character into the books using Microsoft Word, and will “draw” a picture of their chosen character, either by hand, or verbally, using descriptive words. On the final day, students will do a 5-8 minute presentation to the class. Each student will introduce the class to their character, read/summarize their short story, and tell us how they were inspired to create this character.

Student records observations of seed germination over time , using labelled diagrams and journal entries.

This rubric was created to assess literature based on the level of cultural sensitivity and gender sensitivity.

General rubric for a paragraph organization