5th Grade Vocabulary Activities (by date, oldest first)

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• Commutative Property of Multiplication
• Associative Property of Multiplication
• Associative Property of Addition
• Commutative Property of Addition
• Distributive Property of Multiplication
• Identity Property
• Order of Operations
• parentheses
  inverse operation

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• metric system
• customary system
• unit of measure
• mass
• weight
• gram
• kilogram
• ounce
• pound

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• weathering
• soil
• erosion
• sedimentary rocks
• sediment
• fossils
• evidence
• fossil fuels
• geologic time

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• capacity
• fluid ounce
• cup
• pint
• quart
• gallon
• milliliter
• liter
• volume

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• states of matter
• solid
• liquid
• gas
• matter
• chemical property
• physical property
• classify
• mass

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• compatible numbers
• estimate
• approximation
• front-end estimation
• reasonable
• rounding
• mental math
• evaluate
• benchmark

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• divisor
• divisible
• dividend
• quotient
• remainder
• divide
• division symbols
• half
• third

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• a.m.
• analog clock
• counterclockwise
• clockwise
• digital clock
• elapsed time
• hours
• minutes
• p.m.

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• force
• motion
• work
• gravity
• friction
• spring scale
• simple machine
• pulley
• lever

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• possible outcomes
• data
• probability
• sample
• event
• survey
• tally mark
• line plot
• population

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• exponent
• base
• unknown
• rule
• term
• algebra
• strategy
• constant
• equation

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• point
• line
• plane
• dimension
• 1-dimensional
• 2-dimensional
• 3-dimensional
• ray
• line segment

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• unit fraction
• denominator
• common denominator
• simplify
• equivalent
• fraction
• improper fraction
• mixed number
• numerator

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• energy
• mechanical energy
• light energy
• electrical energy
• sound energy
• thermal energy
• reflected light
• refracted light
• closed circuit

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• acute angle
• angle
• right angle
• straight angle
• obtuse angle
• vertex
• degree (angles)
• straight-edge
• congruent

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• rhombus
• trapezoid
• isosceles triangle
• scalene triangle
• right triangle
• equilateral triangle
• obtuse triangle
• acute triangle
• triangle

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• addend
• sum
• difference
• total
• add
• subtract
• operation
• odd number
• even number

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• energy transfer
• interact
• food chain
• food web
• carbon-oxygen cycle
• photosynthesis
• overpopulation
• environmental
• disturbance
• cell respiration

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• temperature
• degree (temperature)
• degrees Celsius (°C)
• degrees Fahrenheit (°F)
• thermometer
• standard unit
• non-standard unit
• origin
• conversion

Each Card Sorts consists of 27 cards: 9 vocabulary terms, 9 full color images, and 9 student-friendly descriptions/definitions.

Terms included:

• array
• column
• cell
• row
• table
• increase
• decrease
• ordinal numbers
• ordering