How to learn Grade 5: Science
Colorado academic standards: Science, Grade 5
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1. Earth and Space Science · Societal activities have had major effects on land, ocean, atmosphere and even outer space.
- Communities Protecting Resources: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment
2. Earth and Space Science · Most of Earth's water is in the ocean and much of Earth's freshwater in glaciers or underground.
- Salt Water vs Fresh Water: Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth
3. Earth and Space Science · Earth's major systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth's surface materials and processes.
- Earth's atmosphere: Develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact as connected Earth systems
4. Earth and Space Science · Stars range greatly in size and distance from Earth, and this can explain their relative brightness.
- Star Brightness & Distance: Support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from Earth, understanding the sun is a relatively close star
5. Life Science · Matter cycles between air and soil and among plants, animals and microbes as these organisms live and die.
- Matter Cycling in Ecosystems: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment in an ecosystem
6. Life Science · Plants acquire their material from growth chiefly from air and water.
- Plants Grow from Air & Water: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water, not from the soil
7. Physical Science · The energy released from food was once energy from the sun.
- Energy from Food & the Sun: Use models to describe that energy in animals' food was once energy from the sun, transferred through plants or other organisms
8. Physical Science · The gravitational force of Earth acting on an object near Earth's surface pulls that object toward the planet's center.
- Gravity Pulls Things Down: Understand gravity as a force that pulls objects towards the centre of the Earth, that 'down' means towards Earth’s centre regardless of where you stand on the sphere, and that gravity keeps the Moon orbiting Earth and planets orbiting the Sun
9. Physical Science · Chemical Reactions that occur when substances are mixed can be identified by the emergence of substances with different properties; the total mass remains the same.
- Conservation of Mass: Measure and provide evidence that the total weight of matter is conserved regardless of the type of change (heating, cooling, or mixing)
- Physical vs Chemical Changes: Distinguish between physical changes (reversible, no new substances formed) and chemical changes (new substances formed, often irreversible), using conservation of mass to understand both types
10. Physical Science · Matter exists as particles that are too small to be seen; measurements of a variety of observable properties can be used to identify particular materials.
- Matter Is Made of Particles: Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen, and that this explains properties of solids, liquids, and gases