How to learn Grade 5: Science

Georgia academic standards: Science, Grade 5

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1. Life Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how microorganisms benefit or harm larger organisms.

1. Classifying Organisms: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups (micro-organisms, plants, animals) according to common observable characteristics, similarities, and differences

2. Life Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to compare and contrast the parts of plant and animal cells.

1. Plant Cells vs Animal Cells: Compare plant and animal cells, identifying shared features and structures unique to plant cells (cell wall, vacuole, chloroplasts)

3. Life Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information showing that some characteristics of organisms are inherited and other characteristics are acquired.

1. Inheritance Vocabulary: Use vocabulary for variation and inheritance — inherited characteristic, acquired characteristic, variation, offspring, trait, species, breed, genetic, environment — and apply these when comparing organisms and explaining similarities and differences within and between species
2. Inherited characteristics: Analyse and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms

4. Physical Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about magnetism and its relationship to electricity.

1. Magnetic Fields: Describe magnetic poles (north and south), explain attraction and repulsion between poles, describe magnetic field lines plotted using a compass, and explain the Earth's magnetic field and its practical uses
2. Electromagnets: Describe the magnetic effect of an electric current (a current-carrying wire produces a magnetic field), and investigate how the strength of an electromagnet depends on current, number of coil turns, and core material

5. Physical Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to investigate electricity.

1. Material Properties Vocabulary: Use technical vocabulary to describe and compare material properties — conductor, insulator, thermal, electrical, transparent, opaque, translucent, soluble, insoluble, magnetic, flexible, rigid, density — and apply these terms precisely when selecting and justifying materials for particular purposes
2. Building an energy-converting device: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another
3. Static electricity and sparks: Explain static electricity as the build-up of electric charge through friction, describe how charged objects attract or repel each other, and relate static discharge to everyday phenomena such as lightning

6. Physical Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain the differences between a physical change and a chemical change.

1. 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

7. Earth and Space Science · Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to identify surface features on the Earth caused by constructive and/or destructive processes.

1. Natural Disaster Solutions: Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans, such as earthquakes, floods, or volcanic eruptions
2. Finding patterns in data: Analyse and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features, recognising that many features result from processes that occur over long periods