5th Grade Life Skills

Teaching Guide for My Side of the Mountain

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Reading and Literature

Fiction

Life Skills

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Trail Markers

It's important to mark a trail when hiking in the wilderness, in order to find the way back, as students learn in this…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Physical Education and Fitness

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Story Starters: Survival

Write a story of survival based on a prompt.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Safety

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Handling Bullying: A Checklist for Students

This resource for students includes a 7-item checklist for handling bullying, as well as reflection and response…

Subjects:

Bullying

Life Skills

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Navigation

Compare and contrast the pros and cons of the four standard principles of navigation.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Emergency Preparedness

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Animal Survival Instincts

Students read the animal facts on survival instincts and match the behaviors with the animals.

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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Good Citizenship

Increase social studies skills with an activity that focuses on showing respect and understanding good citizenship.

Subjects:

Social Studies and History

Citizenship

Life Skills

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Survival Priorities

Students rank a list in order of importance of survival techniques.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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Water for Survival

Water is the single most important element necessary to survival. Teach students about food with high water content, the…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Emergency Preparedness

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Lost on a Mountain in Maine

Follow the story, Lost on a Mountain in Maine, of a boy who survived in the Maine wilderness for nine days.

Subjects:

Reading and Literature

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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Temperature Conversions

Students find out how to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius, and vice versa.

Subjects:

Mathematics

Formulas and Functions

Life Skills

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Survival Situation: Outlining a Plan

Students are asked to detail a survival plan.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Emergency Preparedness

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another school shooting to talk with kids about

TEACHING RESOURCE

Talking to Children About Violence

Share an article from the Educators for Social Responsibility that details discussing violence and other sensitive and…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Safety

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Gun Safety—What Would You Do?

Students answer what they would do if they found a gun. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and…

Subjects:

The Gorp's Gift: Gun Safety Resources for Teachers

Creative Writing

Books

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Put Gorp's Story in Order

Put Gorp's story back in order. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident prevention.

Subjects:

The Gorp's Gift: Gun Safety Resources for Teachers

Books

Literature

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Controlling Disorganization

A list of specific organizing strategies for teachers and parents to help disorganized students.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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Surviving Underground

In this social studies activity, students consider what they would need to survive underground for an extended period of…

Subjects:

Social Studies and History

Life Skills

Emergency Preparedness

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What Is Survival?

Students work in cooperative teams to explore and expand the concept of survival.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Emergency Preparedness

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Character Growth: Survival

Students analyze a character's personality before and after a survival situation.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Social and Emotional Development

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Remain Calm!

When faced with a survival situation, the most important thing is to remain calm.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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Rationing

Students explore the rationing of food and supplies as is necessary in a survival emergency.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Nutrition

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Fire Making

Making fire without the aid of matches is difficult, but essential to survival in the wild, as students learn in this…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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Drying Food

One way to make perishable food last for a long time is to dry it, as students learn in this printable.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Nutrition

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