Year 5 Teaching Resources
Teach Starter has an extensive collection of resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum for students in Year 5. They have been created and designed for children aged 10 and 11 years, containing features such as engaging yet accessible layouts, higher-order thinking skills, appealing images and interactive elements designed to enable students to successfully transition into the upper years of their primary school education.
Teach Starter’s Year 5 resources utilise a vast array of resource types and have something for every learning area. There are maths activities, interactive PowerPoints and educational games that develop understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning across the three content strands, Year 5 English worksheets, posters and templates that help them engage with a variety of text types, and listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts, and so much more!
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Calming Corner Posters (Upper Years)
Encourage calm and positive coping strategies in your upper years’ classroom with printable Calming Corner Posters.
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Earth's Rotation and Revolution PowerPoint
Explore the difference between rotation and revolution while learning about the day and night cycle, what causes the seasons to change and more with this teaching presentation.
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Yoga Poses for Kids - Posters for the Classroom
16 kid friendly yoga cards featuring poses to display and use in the classroom for daily gross motor and fitness activities.
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Energy Transformations PowerPoint
Explore how energy changes forms with our Energy Transformations PowerPoint Presentation.
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Simple Machines - Design a Roller Coaster STEM Challenge
Implement a Roller Coaster Stem Challenge to help your students demonstrate knowledge of simple machines.
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Factors, Multiples and Divisibility Rules Interactive Task Cards
Explore factors, multiples and divisibility rules with these interactive task cards.
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Light and Shadow Experiment Design Activity
Explore light and shadow while developing science inquiry skills with our Light and Shadow Experiment design activity pack.
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Printable Bingo Template Pack
Create your own bingo games with custom content using our Printable Bingo Template Pack.
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Adjectival Clause Teaching Slides
Teach the power of the adjectival clause with this engaging slide deck designed to help primary school students boost their descriptive writing.
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Imbalance in Food Chains – Teaching Presentation
Explore how different factors can cause a break in a food chain and may affect an ecosystem with this 16-slide teaching presentation.
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Be a Team Player! Writing Prompt Task Cards
Spark meaningful writing about how to be a team player with these engaging writing prompts perfect for National Simultaneous Storytime 2026.
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The Penalty Kick - Write a New Ending to a Story Activity
Promote resilience and boost narrative writing skills with a football-themed ‘Write a New Ending to a Story’ reading prompt and writing activity for National Simultaneous Storytime 2026.
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Matter Experiment – Will All Liquids Freeze?
Investigates whether all liquids will change states when heat is removed with an engaging Matter Experiment.
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What Would Happen If...? Environmental Impact Task Cards
Predict and identify the effects of environmental change on plants and animals with a set of printable science task cards.
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Science Lab Report Template
Use a Science Lab Report Template to help your students organise their findings in any scientific method lab experiment.
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Cooperation Puzzles - Teamwork Activity
Explore the benefits of cooperation with a tangram-style team-building activity.
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Analysing Fair Tests Activity Sheets (5-6)
Download these Analysing Fair Tests Activity Sheets to help your students practice identifying dependent and independent variables and making experimental predictions.
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Develop a Habitat - Garden Project
A project-based assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how habitats can be preserved and protected in and around where people live.
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Winter Paralympics Word Search – Upper Years
Build vocabulary related to the Winter Paralympic Games with this engaging word search activity for upper primary students.
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Hopes and Wishes Jar - Goal Planning Template
Craft a hopes and wishes jar to set goals for the new school year.
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Oops…or Awesome? Good Behaviour Game
Explore appropriate and inappropriate behaviours at the beginning of a new school year with a Good Behaviour Game.
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All About Me Workbook - Upper Years
Start the new school year with an exciting All About Me Workbook for upper primary students.
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This or That? Icebreaker Game
Encourage new friendships in your classroom with an interactive This or That? Icebreaker Game.
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Different Types of Topic Sentences Worksheet Pack
Teach different types of topic sentences with this engaging set of worksheets that introduce, model and reinforce effective paragraph writing in the classroom.
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Roll-a-Kandinsky - Dot Day Art Game
Introduce your students to the circle art style of Wassily Kandinsky with a fun Roll-a-Kandinsky Art Game for Dot Day.
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Multisyllabic Word List Resource Pack
Print and use a multisyllabic word list to introduce your students to more complex words and syllable patterns.
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Reflection, Refraction, and Absorption Worksheet
Use a Reflection, Refraction, and Absorption worksheet to ensure students understand light energy.
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Bare Assertions Worksheet Pack
Strengthen student writing by helping them turn bare assertions into well-supported opinions using these engaging and practical worksheets.
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12 and 24-Hour Time Puzzle Pops
Build batches of tasty ice lollies with a maths centre to match 12 and 24-hour times.
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Reading and Constructing Timelines Worksheets
Two pages of worksheets to use when teaching students about timelines.
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Unsinkable Titanic - Editing & Sentence Combining Worksheets
Practise editing and combining simple sentences with our Unsinkable Titanic Weekly Editing & Sentence Combining worksheets.
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Word Detective Worksheet - Context Clues
Assign our Word Detective Worksheet to give your students extra practice in using context clues to find the meaning of unfamiliar words.