5th Grade Computer Project Links
Internet Safety Resources
http://pbskids.org/webonauts/
https://jr.brainpop.com/health/besafe/internetsafety/
http://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html
http://www.safekids.com/quiz/
http://home.mcafee.com/SafetyQuiz/QuizKids.aspx?culture=en-US&
https://jr.brainpop.com/health/besafe/internetsafety/
http://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html
http://www.safekids.com/quiz/
http://home.mcafee.com/SafetyQuiz/QuizKids.aspx?culture=en-US&
States Paint Project |
US Tallest Buildings |
Nifty Fifty States Project
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Cross Country
For this activity you will travel across the United States from Washington D.C. to California. You'll visit one interesting place in each State on the trip and answer questions along the way.
You will need a copy of the questions and answer sheet. Click on the cross-country icon to open the file.
For help finding the answers to the questions launch your Internet browser and search on the sites listed below. During your trip across the country you will need to send letters home using WORD too.
Have a great trip!
IF ANY OF THE WEBSITE LINKS DO NOT WORK - TRY USING GOOGLE OR BING TO GET YOUR ANSWER!!!!
- If you need help finding out what Pennsylvania town is home of the world-famous forecasting groundhog, you can visit http://www.punxsutawney.com/
- If you can't find out why Spruce Knob is famous is West Virginia, you can visit www.google.com and type in the key words "Spruce Knob" to see what you find.
- If you need help finding out what sport is honored with a festival in Canton, visit here http://www.cityofcanton.com/
- Need help find out how many children Squire Boone had? Check this site and then click "About Squire Boone". http://www.squireboonecaverns.com
- To find out what Lincoln's dog's name was, check here and take a tour of Lincolns home too! http://www.nps.gov/liho
(I think the dog liked the sitting room the best!)
1. Take some time to write an letter to a family member telling them all about your trip so far!
- Need help finding out about the butterfly's body? A Learning Lab is a good place to learn about a butterfly's body. Check here http://www.butterflyhouse.org
- If you need some help finding out what Pecos Bill created, look here http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ks2.html
- To get help finding out what year Mr. Stoeber starting making the twine ball, check here http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/towns/Cawker/twine.html
- Need help? "Along the Route" you'll find lots of trees. http://www.cograilway.com
- If you need some help finding out where a desert tortoise spends 95% of his life, check here http://www.desertusa.com
- Under the Science and Math heading, click on "Animals". On the next screen, find "Turtles" on the list and click on it. Twelve sites will be listed alphabetically, but you'll want to click on the first one titled, "Desert Tortoise".
- OR you can type "desert tortoise" in the search box on the very first KidsClick! screen and then click the Search Button. Two sites should be listed. One of those should give you information about desert tortoises. You figure out which one!
- If you need help finding out the color of the Golden Gate Bridge, be sure to take the Bridge Walk on this site, http://www.goldengatebridge.org/photos/bridgewalk.html
- Click on the green "Start the Bridge Walk" link. A pop-up window will appear.
- Click on "walk forward" below the picture to get started. Now enjoy the trip by using other links to look up and down and continue forward across the bridge.
- Be sure to go up to the top before you end the walk.
- Click on the "Driving Directions" link on the left side of the page to get to the page we want.
- In the "City, State, or Zip" box under #1 (starting address), type "Kent City , MI or 49330". Leave the other boxes blank
- In the same box under #2 (destination address), type "Washington D.C.". for example Leave the other boxes blank.
- Click on "Get Directions".
Mount Rushmore
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In this activity, you will use your word processing skills to edit a report on Mount Rushmore.
- Open the Mount Rushmore document by clicking the Mount Rushmore file and saving it to your computer.
- Add the title "Carving a Mountain" to the beginning of the report.
- Select the title and then change the font size to 36 and center-align the title. You also need to format it bold and italic.
- Insert a clip art image of Mount Rushmore after the title. Use the keyword, Mount Rushmore, for your search.
- The following paragraph is missing from this report. Type the following paragraph into the report. It should be the second to last paragraph.
In creating Mt. Rushmore, nearly 500,000 tons of rock was removed by either blasting with dynamite or chiseling with jack hammers and drills. Throughout this operation, many problems arose, as the blasting on the mountain exposed layers of granite that were of poor quality. This meant that some of the figures had to be turned or moved. One example is that the figure of Thomas Jefferson was originally planned to be on Washington's right, but had to be moved to his left.
- There is a quote by Gutzon Borglum in the 5th paragraph. Change the font of the quote to another color and then format it as italics.
- Use the Tab key to indent the first sentence of each paragraph.
- In this document the author used Mt. instead of the word Mount. Click Edit on the menu bar and then click Replace. The Find and Replace dialog box is displayed.
- Type Mt. in the Find what: box and type Mount in the Replace with: box.
- Click the Replace all button. There should have been 5 replacements.
- Check the spelling in the document. Fix any spelling errors.
- Type your name at the end of the report.
- Format your name with a fancy font, and use any combination of bold, italics, underline and color.
- Use the Save As command to save the document with a unique file name to your floppy disk or wherever your teacher instructs you. Print the document and then close the program.
Symbols Of America
In this activity, you will open, view, and edit a presentation. You will find that some of the slides are not complete and many of the slides contain too much information. Use the information below to complete the presentation. CLICK HERE
- First you need to view the presentation.
- Click the Symbols of America presentation icon and choose "Save".
- Save the file to your desktop.
- After the file is saved, open the file from your desktop.
- Add your name to the title slide in the subtitle placeholder.
- View slides 2, 3, and 4. They are complete.
- Slide 5 has too much text. You want to keep this information but you need to make this one slide into two slides.
- Click Insert from the menu and add a new slide to the presentation.
- Click on Slide 5, and select the last bullet. Cut it and paste it into the text placeholder on your new Slide 6.
- Edit Slide 6. There is too much information so please cut text so that the slide format looks like this:
Three reasons the population of Bald Eagles has dropped:
- Captured for getting too close to poultry or fishing nets
- Captured for falconry
- Poisoned by
- In 1967, the bald eagle was included on the Endangered Species List.
- Add the title "Number of Bald Eagles" to the title placeholder on Slide 6.
- Go back to Slide 5, select the remaining paragraphs and change the font to size 20.
- Change the slide layout to include a bulleted list and graphic. On the last slide of the presentation is a beautiful picture of a Bald Eagle. Cut that picture from the last slide and paste it to Slide 5.
- Slide 8 is the first slide about the Great Seal. It is complete.
- Move to Slide 9. Type the following text into the text placeholder on the slide.
Do you see a pattern of thirteen in the Great Seal?
- 13 stars in the crest above the eagle
- 13 stripes in the shield upon the eagle's breast
- 13 arrows in the eagle's left claw
- 13 olives and leaves in the eagles' right claw
- 13 letters in the motto carried by the eagle, E Pluribus Unum
- On Slide 10 type the words, "Where is the seal and when is it used?" into the title placeholder.
- Change the slide layout on Slide 11 to include a picture of the Liberty Bell. Insert the picture of the bell from the last slide in the presentation.
- On Slide 12 you need to correct the spelling errors.
- Slide 13 is complete.
- Since you have used the graphics from Slide 14, delete that slide.
- Add animation and transitions to the slides.
- Save the presentation using a new file name to your floppy disk.
- Print the presentation as handouts with 6 slides per page, if your teacher says you can.
Wide Open Spaces
http://www.growing.course.com/level_5/spreadsheet/index.html
For this activity you will use a spreadsheet to determine how
many people per square mile various States have. The Population spreadsheet has
been completed for the 10 Largest States. You will create new cells in the 10
Smallest States spreadsheet to reflect the number of people per square mile.
For this activity you will use a spreadsheet to determine how
many people per square mile various States have. The Population spreadsheet has
been completed for the 10 Largest States. You will create new cells in the 10
Smallest States spreadsheet to reflect the number of people per square mile.
- Click the Population icon to open the spreadsheet.
- Print the spreadsheet to use for comparison later.
- Here is the information for the 10 Smallest States:
State
Population
Size in Square Miles
South Carolina
4,012,012
30,111
West Virginia
1,808,344
24,087
Maryland
5,296,486
9,775
Vermont
608,827
9,249
New Hampshire
1,235,786
8,969
Massachusetts
6,349,097
7,838
New Jersey
8,414,350
7,418
Hawaii
1,211,537
6,423
Connecticut
3,405,565
4,845
Delaware
783,600
1,955
Rhode Island
1,048,319
1,045
- Click the tab labeled "10 Smallest States" and create a new spreadsheet by
entering the Population and Size information in the cells using the information
above.
- Now, you need to create a pie chart in the spreadsheet.
- Make sure the spreadsheet is open.
- Click cell A3, hold the left mouse button, and drag the mouse pointer
through to cell A3, keep pressing the mouse button and then drag to cell B12.
You have selected the range A3:B12.
- Click the Chart Wizard button on the Standard toolbar.
- The Chart Wizard dialog box is displayed. Choose the pie chart and click the
Finish button.
- Place the pointer on the chart and then hold down the left mouse button.
Drag the chart down so that the top of the chart is below row 17.
- Save your work with a new file name either on your floppy disk or your
desktop.
- Print your spreadsheet and the chart.
- Close the file and quit the program.
- What differences do you see between the two spreadsheets?
- Do States with more area have a larger population than those with less
area?