Students in 5th grade write out stories and create multimedia projects in conjunction with classroom activities and assignments. Basic graphics and text are included as students are exposed to numerous software programs that help to create and reinforce problem solving skills in a variety of curricular areas.

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The Fifth Grade Visited the Marin Headlands.

Ingrid, our HI instructor, introduced the girls to raptors. We dressed one of the students with large eyes, long wings, a large heart, talons and a beak to demonstrate how a raptor is physically equipped and adapted to survive. Here are some digital images taken by the teachers.

In the Unkefer Lab, the students used a visual outlining program called Kidspiration. They classified the amimals they saw into groups. They were able to import images of some of the animals from the Internet and workcite the picture.

This is another visual outline example.

This is an energy pyramid of an ecosystem at the Marin Headlands. Organisms are arranged in levels according to whether they are producers or consumers.

The girls looked at this site to help them identify the name of the area in which they are located.

http://www.yni.org/hi/resources_teacher/grounded/commonspecies.html

A children's book that illustrates a Food Web is Horsehoe Crabs and Shorebirds by Victoria Crenson and Illustrated by Annie Cannon

Table on Human Rights Biography.
Fifth grade students each choose a person to study who has made a difference to the human rights of other people. This chart provides the evidence of a person's beliefs and actions that changed people's lives. This work is done in April as part of our curriculum unit on the history of civil rights.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken.
The Fifth Grade reads this book early in the school year. This gothic mystery is set in Victorian England, an unlikely story of two young girls whose evil governess tries to steal the family's grand home and fortune. The girls, of course, thwart her plans. Students analyze the plot, tracing cause and effect, and write descriptive paragraphs, especially of the most evil events. The book's vocabulary and drama have been a delight for students for many years.