5th grade Alabama curriculum
What 5th grade students practice in Gradelings, unit by unit, matched to the Alabama Course of Study. Tap any unit to see what it covers and try sample questions.
Math
- Numbers to a MillionRead, write and compare big numbers
- MultiplyMultiply up to three digits
- DivideShare, group and handle remainders
- Equivalent FractionsSame amount, different fraction
- DecimalsTenths, hundredths and thousandths
- Patterns & EquationsPattern rules and mystery numbers
- Mental Math TricksFacts to 81 and clever shortcuts
- Parallel Lines and QuadrilateralsSort four-sided shapes
- Triangles & MovesTriangles, views and transformations
- Converting UnitsInches to feet, grams to kilograms
- Parentheses & ExpressionsBrackets first!
- Coordinate GridPlot points (x, y)
- Multiply & Divide FractionsFractions times and shared
- Unlike DenominatorsAdd fractions with different bottoms
- Volume of BoxesCubes, layers and l × w × h
English Language Arts(“Language Arts” in the app)
- Plot and ConflictHow stories rise and fall
- Figurative LanguageSimiles, metaphors, idioms and more
- Purpose and StructureWhy and how authors write
- Context CluesCrack the meaning of new words
- Greek and Latin RootsWord parts that unlock meaning
- Complex SentencesClauses and conjunctions
- Punctuation PowerCommas, colons and apostrophes
- Media SmartsSee through persuasive ads
- Create With Words, Pictures and SoundChoose fonts, images and modes for your audience
- Research ReadyQuestions, sources, notes and credit
- Spelling SmartsSuffixes and words to know
Science
- Solid, Liquid, GasMass, volume and particles
- Matter & ParticlesEverything is made of particles
- Measuring MatterMass, volume, density and particles
- Solutions & MixturesDissolving and separating mixtures
- Changes of StateMelting, freezing and more
- Physical or Chemical?Changes that make new things
- Energy from the SunPlants grow from air and water, and food energy starts with the sun.
- Protecting ResourcesDesign solutions that cut the environmental impact of using natural resources.
- Sun, Stars & ShadowsWhy the sun looks so bright, and patterns of shadows, day and night, moon phases and stars.
- Earth's Systems & WaterHow the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere interact, and where Earth's water is.
- Matter Moves in EcosystemsProducers, consumers and decomposers, and how matter and energy move among them.
- Gravity Pulls DownEarth's gravity pulls objects toward its center.
Social Studies
- Industry & InventorsSteel, mills and new inventions
- The Progressive EraSuffrage, reformers and Helen Keller
- World War IThe Great War and Alabama's part in it
- Boom, Bust & the New DealThe Twenties, the Depression and the TVA
- World War IIPearl Harbor, the Tuskegee Airmen and the home front
- The Civil Rights MovementMontgomery, Birmingham and Selma
- The Cold War & the Rocket CityContainment, Korea, Vietnam and the Space Race
- Modern AlabamaFrom the G.I. Bill to cars, rockets and rights
- Twentieth Century TimelinePut Alabama and US history in order
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