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5Th Grade Learning Board 5th Grade Learning Board Complete daily activities under each category. We recommend spending 2-3 hours on activities each day. Feel free to take breaks between tasks. MAPEL activities can be done any day. Monday, May 18 Reading/Writing Math (≈30 min) Social Studies (≈30 Music, Art, PE (≈30 min each) min) (≈30 min ​ total) Learning Target: I can use Learning Target: Learning Target: ART ​ ​ dialogue and description to I can divide a multi-digit I can select and analyze Learning develop events and number by a two-digit an inventor to explain Target: characters when writing a divisor. why their invention is I can create one fantasy narrative. important to history and project from the how it changed daily life. art activity board and submit it to Artsonia under “Art Created at Home” LOOK, LISTEN, AND LEARN ASSESSMENT LOOK, LISTEN, AND LEARN Art Watch the lesson on adding Complete page 4 in the Read the articles “The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ meaningful dialogue. packet TURN IN Industrial Revolution” and Learning ​ OR “Inventions of the Industrial Board Study page 2 in the packet. Revolution” on pages 6-7of Create ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ **Struggling?** your packet. something from the Art learning PRACTICE WATCH: Divide by board. PG8-9 ​ ​ OR ​ Do Quotation Marks double Digit divisors ​ worksheet on pg 3 TURN ​ ​ Watch this video about the IN OR ​ ​ ​ Industrial Revolution. OR Study page 5 in the Do IXL Language SS4 to ​ ​ ​ ​ packet 80% TURN IN ​ ARTSONIA INDEPENDENT READING/WRITING Read at least 20 minutes ​ from a good-fit FANTASY ​ CHAPTER book. ​ 1 2 3 4 5 The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a period of major changes in the way products are made. It took place more than 200 ​ ​ years ago and greatly affected the way people lived as well as the way they worked. In earlier days, people made products by hand. They worked mostly in their own homes or in small workshops. During the Industrial Revolution, many factories were built. Laborers began making large numbers of things using machines powered by engines. England was the first country in which these changes took place. However, the Industrial Revolution soon ​ spread to other European countries, the United States, and Japan. ​ ​ ​ ​ Inventions The Industrial Revolution began in the cloth industry. Before that time making cloth was a slow process. After the wool ​ ​ ​ ​ was gathered it had to be spun into yarn and then woven into fabric by hand. In 1733 an invention called a flying shuttle ​ ​ made it easier to weave cloth. A machine called a spinning jenny, invented in 1770, made it easier to spin yarn. In 1793 Eli Whitney invented a machine called a cotton gin. It helped clean cotton after it was picked. ​ ​ ​ Whitney also came up with the idea of interchangeable parts. Before that time a worker who was skilled at making one type of product would spend a great deal of time making a single product by hand. Whitney discovered that a machine could make many copies of the individual parts of a product at once; the parts could then be assembled by any worker. This meant that many goods could be produced quickly. Soon factories were set up to produce these goods. Factories and the machines in them needed power sources. In the early 1700s people discovered how to build steam ​ engines. In the late 1700s James Watt invented a steam engine that could run factory machines. ​ ​ ​ The Industrial Revolution soon spread to all kinds of production. Farmers, for instance, began to invent new machines to plow fields and plant crops. Soon people needed a way to bring in raw materials to make the products. They also wanted to be able to send the finished products to customers. This led to improvements in transportation. Robert Fulton perfected the steamboat in ​ ​ 1807. George Stephenson put a steam engine on wheels and put the wheels on rails in 1825. The result was a railroad. ​ ​ ​ ​ Impact on Society By the late 1700s, many people could no longer earn their living in the countryside. People moved from farms and villages into bigger towns and cities to find work. Cities grew larger, but they were often dirty, crowded, and unhealthy. Although the machines made the work easier in some ways, factory work created many problems for the workers. Machines increased production. This meant that products were cheaper to make and also cheaper to buy. Factory owners grew rich. Factory employees, however, did not earn much, and the work was often dangerous. Many worked 12 to 14 hours a day. Men, women, and even small children worked in factories. Workers sought to win improved conditions and wages through labor unions. These organizations helped create laws ​ ​ that protected the workers. They limited the number of hours they had to work and guaranteed that they would be paid a certain amount. 6 7 Art Learning Board Take time to create a little Art! Complete as many of these as you would like over our extended break. Have fun, experiment and try some new things! Expand your skills and knowledge. :) When you finish a section, take a photo of your work using your ipad and upload it to your Artsonia page under the heading ​“Art Created at home”.​ I can’t wait to see your creations! Please email me if you have problems logging in to your account. [email protected] Artsonia.com Meadowview Intermediate Our access code is:​ TRXK-RDFF​ Look through old Research “Found Draw someone or Go on a walk Practice your ​ magazines or even Object something in your around your drawing skills by ​ junk mail. Use them Sculpture”. house from neighborhood. practicing your ​ to create a collage. Gather objects observation. (It Gather some found pencil hold and ​ ​ ​ (This is similar to an from around your can be you!) Create objects (rocks, shading. Check out Art work we did this home or yard and a fun background sticks, leaves, etc.) this video and year.) Create your make a piece of that tells a story. and make some Art others by own unique collage. Art. *You can write with it. Check out Paul Priestley Check out this video about it if you wish. Andy https://bit.ly/39ldqy5 on the process. Check out Bernard :) This video is from Goldworthy’s Art ​ https://bit.ly/2y7Mp4 Williams found fellow Art teacher https://bit.ly/3dsbF Brandon (Artismia) v object sculptures. Nicole Hahn. m7 https://bit.ly/2Ux3E https://bit.ly/3anzC https://bit.ly/2Uha9v 6Y cA r Create a heart using Go on a virtual Create a positive Go on a virtual Check out this ​ supplies you have field trip on the site word using graffiti field trip to The video of fun things ​ ​ ​ ​ and hang it in your Tate Kids. Find style lettering. Metropolitan to draw by tracing ​ ​ window. People can out something new Check out this Museum of Art in your hand and ​ ​ see your creation about an Artist you video by fellow New York City. It is folding paper. while on a w may not know Artsonia teacher huge! I had a great alk! This idea anything about. Rebecca Speech. time visiting this started in Canada. Create some Art in https://bit.ly/3bvSTs museum when I #happyhearthunt that Artist’s style. t was in New York. https://bit.ly/33HuHj https://bit.ly/2y1JP S gd https://bit.ly/2UU8 k71 https://bit.ly/2JcfRbJ 8 Research the Artist Create a weaving Research Origami. Create a Japanese Make some ​ ​ Alexander Calder. using paper. It can Find a fold that you Kumihimo braided ​ homemade clay Create a mobile in be any kind of would like to create bracelet. ​ ​ and create his style from any paper- magazines, and fold several You will need a something fun! materials you would wrapping paper, examples. Put them paperboard circle, There are lots of like. construction together to create a scissors, pencil and recipes for clay. https://bit.ly/34Or5NN paper...be creative! sculpture. yarn or embroidery There are a few ​ https://bit.ly/34Qg3 floss. below. rf https://bit.ly/2zflRi9 https://bit.ly/2KmGLy 8 https://bit.ly/3bAEyvg Use the Create an Artwork Draw a 1 point Practice drawing a attachment of your choice. Do perspective portrait. Check out techniques image you love to paint? Aquarium. this video of how to to the left to create Experiment with You will need a draw a face using a sculpture from paint and create a pencil, paper and the correct materials you have painting of ruler. Add color with proportions. (The at home. The something that your choice of person forgot to example below has inspires you. media. add the eyebrows some string lights Practice blending https://bit.ly/2YCww0 though!) inside! colors and using Z https://bit.ly/3b19of different color or m schemes (monochromatic, warm colors, cool colors, etc.) Do you love to draw? Experiment or with different drawing techniques and draw something interesting to you. Practice blending and shading. 9 Tuesday, May 19 Music, Art, Reading/Writing Math (≈30 min) Social Studies (≈30 PE (≈30 min each) min) (≈30 min total) Learning Target: I can use Learning Target: Learning Target: Learning ​ ​ Target: dialogue and description to I can divide with decimals I can select and analyze I can complete develop events and characters in the dividend, divisor, an inventor to explain or perform and when writing a fantasy and with decimals in why their invention is turn in 2 narrative. dividend and divisor. important to history and activities how it changed daily life. LOOK, LISTEN, AND LEARN PRACTICE LOOK, LISTEN, AND LEARN Watch the lesson on adding Complete page 14 in the Choose one of the Choose 2 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ description to stretch out packet TURN IN inventors/ inventions from Activities ​ ​ important parts.
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