Why it matters: ELA in fifth grade builds essential reading, writing, and communication skills that form the foundation for future academic growth. What’s new: Teachers are incorporating thematic ...

What do you think of when you hear the words climate change, Brittany Jefferson asked her fifth-graders. She moved around her classroom at Silver Lake’s Citizens of the World Charter School making eye ...

Generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, can do a lot with the right prompts. Teachers can − and are − using it to help create lesson plans or to enhance lesson plans they've used in the past ...

The 2026 school year is seeing a radical shift in how 5th grade social studies and science are taught, moving from textbook memorization to immersive construction. With new summer 2026 programs like ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the "robot" that was churning out ...

Each Remote Learning Assignment is a Google Form containing a series of videos, images, and questions from an Inquiry in Action lesson. Here is a short walkthrough of one of these assignments. Youtube ...