5th Grade Video Files

Help your middle schoolers dive deep into the complexities of climate change with this engaging and thought-provoking resource!

"Climate Change: Five Perspectives" goes beyond basic facts, encouraging students to analyze diverse viewpoints and develop their critical thinking skills.

This comprehensive resource includes:

• Five compelling letters, each written to the United: Each letter presents a unique perspective on climate change, written from the point of view of:

  • The Urgent Activist
  • The Cautious Skeptic
  • The Technological Optimist
  • The Economic Pragmatist
  • The Frontline Youth (a student living in Kiribati)

• A companion AI video where the five letters are read aloud by their authors.

• 12 Engaging Assignments: Designed to spark critical thinking and enhance literacy skills, these activities encourage students to:

  • Analyze author's craft, purpose, and structure.
  • Synthesize information and evaluate evidence.
  • Compare and contrast perspectives.
  • Develop their own informed opinions.

• Alignment with Curriculum: This resource integrates with many Grade 6 literacy outcomes and climate change units. It was paritcularly aimed at the Alberta curriciulum.

Why This Resource Stands Out:

• Promotes Critical Thinking: Students learn to analyze different viewpoints, evaluate evidence, and form their own conclusions.
• Encourages Empathy and Global Awareness: By exploring diverse perspectives, students gain a deeper understanding of how climate change impacts people around the world.
• Offers Flexibility: The resource can be adapted for individual work, small group activities, or whole-class discussions.
• Saves You Time: The ready-to-use letters, video, and assignments make it easy to implement this resource in your classroom.

Spark meaningful conversations about climate change and empower your students to become informed, engaged global citizens!

Click here to purchase "Climate Change: Five Perspectives" and enhance your climate change unit today!

Memories from the Year (video project) gives students an opportunity to share their memories from the school year as a culminating activity to the year. It uses the Web 2.0 tool, WeVideo, which is convenient for teachers and students since it does not require download. Students use existing pictures and videos or shoot additional ones and then combine those with WeVideo’s built in music to create a video retrospective of the year. The project was created for 7th and 8th graders but could easily be adapted to use with upper elementary through early high school.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files Included with this Lesson

• Teacher & Student Notes and Resources

• Video Project Instructions, Expectations & Grading Rubric

• Video Planning Worksheet

Related Products
⭐ "I'll Always Remember" - End of the Year PowerPoint Project
⭐ "My Best Work" - Online Portfolio End of Year Project in Weebly
⭐ Student Success Guidebook - Brochure Project

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Mi insti (my school) - Spanish Song for GCSE, IGCSE, AP, IB Ab Initio & DELE Exam Practice
This catchy Spanish song is designed to help students improve their speaking and listening skills on the topic of SCHOOL for exams like GCSE, IGCSE, AP, IB, and DELE. The lyrics are packed with essential past, present, future, conditional, and imperfect tenses, making it an ideal resource for revision.
Listen anytime, anywhere!
This song is available on all major streaming platforms so you can revise Spanish on your way to school, work, or even while exercising!
Spotify, Deezer, YouTube Music, Amazon Music etc: https://artists.landr.com/056870280868
The music video is availble on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/vVQolLr0zF4

What’s included in the one-page worksheet?

• Lyrics with blanks: fill in the missing words while listening
• Match up the translation: reinforce key vocabulary
• Fill in the blanks: practicing vocabulary in context
• Translate the sentences into Spanish: the fist letter of each word is given to help.
• Complete the sentences with the words of your choice.
• Answers

How this song helps:

• Boost Listening Skills: improve comprehension with natural pronunciation and key vocabulary.
• Improve Speaking Fluency: sing along to practice pronunciation and intonation.
• Expand Vocabulary: learn or revise essential school-related phrases.
• Master Exam Grammar: reinforce verb tenses used in writing and speaking exams.

Perfect for:

• Spanish learners at GCSE, IGCSE, AP, IB, DELE A2-B1 levels
• Teachers looking for engaging classroom resources
• Students wanting a fun and effective revision tool

After trade and communication between Europe and the Americas began following Columbus's voyage in 1492, many Europeans began to seek opportunities in the New World. One such group, now known as the Pilgrims, sailed from England to North America in 1620.

In 1620 the Mayflower crossed from England to North America. Filled to the brim with passengers, livestock, and supplies, they faced many delays before finally reaching the shores of the New World. The Pilgrims suffered and many of them died to establish a settlement in what is now Massachusetts, but through cooperation with local tribes of Native Americans they were eventually able to thrive.

Watch the excellent video “The Story of the Mayflower and the First Thanksgiving for Children” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqIER2KHbE) with your students, and then do the activities in this ebook. The answers are available at the end of the book, as well as plenty of guidance for the teacher in the Teacher's notes.

Don’t you want your students to have the opportunity to see baby chickens and ducks hatch? It is hard to incubate eggs in the classroom. It is messy, it can be distracting for the kids, and once the birds hatch you have to figure out what to do with them! This resource allows your students to see every step of the incubation process without all the hassle. You will receive over 2 hours of videos, along with worksheet pages that include parts of an egg, egg writing prompts, and egg drawing sheets. Best of all, you will have ample footage of adorable baby birds!

This resource contains differentiated assignments that are designed to make this unit useful for teachers of all elementary grade levels. I would like you to know ahead of time that baby birds are a little icky looking when they hatch. Of course, they fluff up after a while, and you will get to see them once they do. However, the soggy, dinosaur looking baby birds could be a little frightening to very young students unless they are prepped. You could always skip the active hatching videos. 

This resource covers the entire egg hatching and incubation process. This resource contains videos for each day of the 21 days of incubation, along with footage of the 2 and 3 day old birds. You can see a breakdown of the video topics and the length of each video below. Below the schedule you will see a list of assignments and worksheets that you will receive with your purchase.

*YOU WILL RECEIVE A LINK TO MY YOUTUBE PLAYLIST TO ACCESS THESE VIDEOS*

Look in the "Thank You" note in the downloadable zip file to find the link.

Schedule

EXTRA- Introduction video- 2 min 17 seconds

DAY 1- Incubation Process and Start!- 7 min 23 sec

DAY 2- Egg update- 2 min 6 sec

EXTRA- How to Candle an Egg- 3 min 26 sec

Day 3- Candling Day 1- 4 min 45 sec

Day 4- Egg Update- 1 min 32 sec

Day 5- Egg Update- 1 min 5 sec

Day 6- Candling Day 2- 47 sec

Day 7 - Egg Update- 1 min 51 sec

Day 8 - Egg Composition and Dissection- 6 min 57 sec (advanced version)

Day 9- Candling Day 3- 1 min 48 sec

Day 10 - Egg Update- 1 min 28 sec

Day 11- Egg Update- 1 min 14 sec

Day 12- Candling Day 4- 43 sec

Day 13- Egg Update- 2 min 8 sec

Day 14- Growth process of bird in egg- 2 min 55 sec

Day 15- Candling Day 5- 1 min 4 sec

EXTRA- Egg Emergency!- 3 min 26 sec

Day 16- Egg update- 1 min 26 sec

Day 17- Egg update- 2 min 4 sec

Day 18- Candling Day 6- 7 min 28 sec

Day 19- Pipping and Hatching process- 3 min

Day 20- Duck #1- Day 20- 10 min 51 sec

Day 21- Morning and Nighttime Hatching- 40 min 3 sec

Day 22- Care of babies- A New Home!- 35 min 15 sec

EXTRA- First time the ducks are in water- 2 min 22 sec

Assignments:

- 2 Egg Word Search Pages with Answers

- Egg Incubation and Hatching Notes- 5 pages with answers

- Egg Unit Quiz

- Write a Letter to an Egg Activity

- Humpty Dumpty Poem and Activity

- Egg and Bird Writing Activities

- Egg Candling Drawing Sheets

- Egg Math Worksheets (Basic and Advanced)

- Parts of an Egg Notes (Basic and Advanced)

Each worksheet includes additional questions on the front side, a writing activity or table to complete, on the backside some include a PRIMARY SOURCE or an ART ACTIVITY or an INTERACTIVE WRITING PROMPT. ANSWER KEY INCLUDED.

EAGLE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/imBaXkZO2NA

2 French Children's Story Videos (Petit Poulet and L'Oiseau et la baleine) from The French Experiment are linked.

For your beginner Core French class, I recommend having students watch one of the videos in French first with no subtitles. Have them try to answer as many questions as possible from the accompanying worksheet. You might want to play the video at .75x speed if you teach elementary students.

Next, play the video once more, this time with subtitles. Students will be able to fill in the blanks they missed the first time around.

The last question for each of the stories allow students to think critically about the lesson each story teaches.

The worksheets are in English. The videos are in French.

I found this allows students to think about what they are watching more carefully, learning more French words along the way.

An answer key is not included, but the questions are very simple and you will be able to answer them easily after watching the video. I wrote the answers while watching the videos along with the students.

The French Experiment offers these two French videos for free. The rest are on a paid version. You can check it out below.

https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/stories

Happy teaching!

Alberta Grade 6 Social Studies Podcast Series: "Voices in Democracy"

Bring your Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum to life with this engaging podcast series designed to accompany the "Voices in Democracy" textbook! Each chapter comes alive through narrated audio content that explores key concepts, historical events, and democratic principles.

This unique resource includes:

• 8 chapter-specific podcasts (10-15 minutes each)
• Covers all major topics in the Alberta Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum
• Engaging narration and audio production to capture students' attention
• Perfect for auditory learners, ESL students, or to reinforce textbook content
• Can be used for in-class listening activities, homework review, or remote learning

Podcasts cover:

1. Shaping Society Together
2. Democracy in Action
3. Democracy in Ancient Athens
4. The Iroquois Confederacy
5. How Does Local Government Work?
6. How Provincial Government Works
7. Making a Just and Fair Canada
8. Voices for Change

Enhance your social studies instruction and give students an exciting new way to engage with democratic concepts. This podcast series offers a fresh approach to exploring citizenship, government, and historical influences on modern Canadian democracy.

Ideal for teachers looking to incorporate more audio content, support diverse learning styles, or provide an alternative way for students to review key material.

Download includes MP3 files for easy use on any device.

Bring history and civics to life through the power of podcasting!

By November 1st, Santa Claus is everywhere, but you probably didn’t know that Santa wasn’t always the fat man in the red suit. In fact, Santa didn't get his iconic, jolly look until Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist, drew him that way. Before the 1860s, Santa was represented as everything, from a jolly elf to a tall gaunt man. In central Europe, Santa was even depicted alongside the Krampus, a devilish figure who punishes bad children.

This enlightening video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0MzHu3Tuw) by the acclaimed History Channel, describes how Santa Claus took the form we now know due to the creativity of New Yorker cartoonist Thomas Nast. Watch the video with your students, with or without subtitles, and then do the activities that follow in this ebook. There are activities for all kinds of learners, especially the younger ones.

At the back of the book, you will find detailed Teacher's Notes with directions about the activities, as well as the Answer key.

Why is Martin Luther King's birthday celebrated as a national holiday, and who was he? Learn how Martin Luther King Jr. transformed American culture forever by watching this incredibly educational Kids Academy film about this remarkable guy. You will learn about his battle against segregation, a legislation in the United States that prohibited individuals with different skin tones from traveling, studying, or dining together. Some individuals felt it was normal to treat Black people badly, despite the fact that slavery had been abolished over a century earlier. In order to combat this inequality, Martin Luther King began using both words and nonviolent means, and he was successful!

This lesson plan is based on the YouTube video about Martin Luther King Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwZxJEUOvS0. There are various activities for your students to do before, while, and after watching the video. The lesson last 90 minutes and it is designed mostly for Elementary school students. The answer key is included at the end.

The Christmas season isn’t finished without watching this holiday classic! It revolves around a child's naive desire for his family to vanish. When they inadvertently abandon him, it backfires and forces him to grow up quickly, enabling him to protect his home from two burglars. All of this leads him to understand how deeply he loves and misses his family, revealing the true essence of the Christmas holidays. In summary, with imaginative traps, excellent humor, meaningful themes, and a well-crafted narrative, this story will lead you to reconsider wanting to grow up too quickly. It effortlessly combines humor, suffering, feelings, human instinct, and clever booby-traps into a single compact package. This movie has remarkably withstood the passage of time.

The tasks in this ebook are intended to be completed after watching the film, and they focus on practicing different abilities. The solutions can be found at the conclusion of the worksheet.