21st Century Fifth Grade Learners

Kids make friends everywhere they go -- including online. But are all of these friendships the same? How can kids start online friendships and also learn ways to stay safe? Help your students understand both the benefits and the risks of online-only friendships.

How do you keep online friendships safe? Check out Digital Friendships, a free digital citizenship lesson plan from Common Sense Education, to get your grade 5 students thinking critically and using technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate.

Talk Moves: Developing Communication Skills. Students learn to revoice, restate, and reason creating structure for classroom discussions. https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/developing-communication-skills)

Through these lessons, students will learn about their emotions as well as how they can show empathy towards others. http://www.scholastic.com/ourbestselves/pdfs/our_best_selves-lessons_1.pdf)

This lesson teaches the importance of entrepreneurship through a STEAM lesson. Students learn skills and create an entrepreneurial mindset through the creativity and innovation of STEAM. (http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/elementary-social-entrepreneurship-a-perfect-steam-lesson/)

This lesson teaches students what it means to be a global citizen. Students will work together and make a "Circle Map of Citizenship.(https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VtZ_HlPT4uINygozYV8RvsT3uh3iBpMP)

Classroom problem-solving activities teach children how to engage problems rather than to become frustrated with them. Teachers have the opportunity to teach children the proper methods for dealing with stressful situations, complex problems, and fast decision-making. While a teacher is unlikely to actually put the child into a difficult or otherwise harmful situation, he or she can use activities to teach the child how to handle such situations later on in life. (https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/classroom-resources/5-problem-solving-activities-for-elementary-classrooms/)

Teamwork is critical for surviving in the 21st Century workplace. Showing students how to work together is a necessity to learning how to accept and relate to each other. It also builds cooperation, another important life skill. This lesson explores how to assist fifth grade students with team building. (https://www.brighthubeducation.com/lesson-plans-grades-3-5/13064-building-blocks-lesson-builds-teamwork-and-cooperative-skills/)