Resources 3-5

NASA’s BEST Students: Grades 3-5
Grade 3-5 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle.
Engineering Towers | Elementary School Educator Curriculum
A STEAM lesson series that takes students on a journey of building towers.
Project Playbook: Educator Edition
The lessons provided are a basic demonstration of how projects can be used with a particular standard(s).
Inside Writing Communities, Grades 3-5
This video workshop for grade 3-5 teachers demonstrates how writing workshops motivate students and help them become proficient writers.
Engaging With Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 3-5
This video workshop shows grade 3-5 teachers how to help students become effective and engaged readers of literature.
Engaging with Literature: A Video Library, Grades 3-5
In this video library, watch grades 3-5 teachers successfully guide students toward becoming more active readers of literature.
U.S. History Map Interactive
With a map as your guide, trace the growth and settlement of the United States.
Elements of a Story Interactive
Learn secrets for telling a good story, explore narratives -- heroes, plot and background. Then, write a story of your own.
Spelling Bee Interactive
Listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story.
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, College/Adult
Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections
This video course for K-12 educators acquaints teachers with current neuroscience research that they can apply in their own classrooms.
Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5
This video workshop for K-5 teachers provides a framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens.
Learning Math: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Explore the big ideas in algebra - patterns, functions, and linearity - in this video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Number and Operations
This video- and web-based course for K-8 teachers examines three main categories in the Number and Operations strand of the math standards.
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12
This video library for K-12 teachers shows a variety of effective social studies lessons and techniques for use with students at all levels.
Learning Math: Measurement
Examine some of the major ideas in measurement and their practical applications in this video- and web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Geometry
Discover how geometric reasoning can be used as a method of problem solving in this video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
Practical examples highlight the basic concepts of data analysis and statistics in this video- and web-based course for K-8 math teachers.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: Workshop
This video workshop introduces middle school teachers to diverse American writers and presents dynamic instructional strategies.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices
This video library illustrates effective instruction and assessment strategies for the teaching of foreign languages in grades K-12.
Teaching Reading: 3-5 Workshop
This video workshop for grade 3-5 teachers presents strategies on how to help students transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn."
The Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers
Discover some new ideas about working with the arts in this video workshop for K-5 classroom and arts specialist teachers.
The Arts In Every Classroom: A Video Library K-5
Explore different ways to introduce the arts into the classroom in this video library for K-5 classroom teachers and arts specialists.