Teachers often look for classroom activities that will not only help students learn, but will also enhance their education with some fun. Fifth-grade students may be the most challenging group to entertain. If you're a teacher looking for age-appropriate games to stimulate your fifth graders' learning experience, try some of the following online activities found at http://www.abcya.com.
Math
Even though it's not a fresh or new concept, kids still enjoy the classic Pac-Man video game. Your students can play Math Man, a variation of the classic game showcasing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Have your students use the keyboard's arrows to move around the board. Like regular Pac-Man, players eat pellets and avoid ghosts; once students eat a question mark (rather than a large pellet), they proceed to eat only the ghost that shows the equation-solving number.
By the time they reach fifth grade, kids may be pretty familiar with money. You can test their cash knowledge with the Learn to Count Money game, which offers 3 levels of varying difficulty. With 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 dollar bills at their disposal, have students place the correct amount of cash inside the box. If they get the amount right, they get a colored fish to put in a fishbowl; if they get it wrong, they lose a fish.
Other math games you could play include Math Match, where students match addition or multiplication equations with their solutions in as few tries as possible (similar to Memory); Math Bingo, in which students score by clicking on the correct answer to equations displayed on the screen. Once they get a full row, they win.
Language Arts
Have your students practice spelling by playing a word search puzzle. The twist with this game is that they get to enter their own words (up to 15), and then search for them, whether across, up, down, diagonally or backwards.
Another activity that will help your students with spelling is Letter Blocks In this game, students form words from letters appearing in a box; when they're ready to submit their word, have them click on the last letter of the word to confirm it. Words must be at least 3 letters long.
To help your students learn to identify nouns and verb, try playing Ice Cream Talk. In this game students in the character of monkeys collect scoops of ice cream when they identify the correct part of speech. If they make a mistake, the monster starts collecting scoops, so make sure they're well-versed on noun and verb identification.
Keyboard Skills and Computer Technology
Have your students strengthen their keypad-locating skills by playing Alpha Munchies. After choosing from 3 levels of difficulty, students must protect their lunch from from the munchies by keeping the munchies from crashing into the wall that stands between them and the food. As the munchies (which look like a letter or punctuation mark) drop down, have your students press the corresponding keypad. If they don't press it in time, the munchie breaks part of the wall.
Another game that allows students to get more acquainted with the keyboard is Keyboard Challenge. A keyboard has fallen apart and needs repair, so have students put the keyboard back together by clicking and dragging keys back to the board; only keys they place in the right spot will stay in place.
Students can play Find the Technology to help them learn computer vocabulary. Have your students look through a messy room to find computer- and technology-related items that match items listed in a word bank. In conjunction with that exercise, students can play a technology vocabulary puzzle, in which they solve slider puzzles that form computer-technology words.
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