Academic Standards
SC5.1.1: Students will plan and conduct investigations that lead to the development of explanations.
SC5.1.1.b: Plan and conduct investigations and identify factors that have the potential to impact an investigation
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Growing Plants
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
SC5.1.1.c: Select and use equipment correctly and accurately
SC5.1.1.g: Share information, procedures, and results with peers and/or adults
SC5.1.1.i: Use appropriate mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry
SC5.1.3: Students will solve a simple design problem.
SC5.1.3.b: Propose a solution to a simple problem
SC5.1.3.c: Implement the proposed solution
SC5.1.3.d: Evaluate the implementation
SC5.1.3.e: Communicate the problem, design, and solution
SC5.2.1: Students will explore and describe the physical properties of matter and its changes.
SC5.2.1.b: Identify physical properties of matter (color, odor, elasticity, weight, volume)
Color Absorption
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Heat Absorption
Mineral Identification
Weight and Mass
SC5.2.1.d: Identify state changes caused by heating and cooling solids, liquids, and gases
SC5.2.2: Students will identify the influence of forces on motion.
SC5.2.2.a: Describe motion by tracing and measuring an object’s position over a period of time (speed)
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time Graphs - Metric
Free Fall Tower
Measuring Motion
SC5.2.2.b: Describe changes in motion due to outside forces (push, pull, gravity)
SC5.2.2.c: Describe magnetic behavior in terms of attraction and repulsion
SC5.2.3: Students will observe and identify signs of energy transfer.
SC5.2.3.b: Recognize that light travels in a straight line and can be reflected by an object (mirror)
SC5.2.3.c: Recognize that light can travel through certain materials and not others (transparent, translucent, opaque)
SC5.2.3.d: Identify ways to generate heat (friction, burning, incandescent light bulb)
SC5.2.3.e: Identify materials that act as thermal conductors or insulators
SC5.2.3.f: Recognize that the transfer of electricity in an electrical circuit requires a closed loop
SC5.3.2: Students will identify variations of inherited characteristics and life cycles.
SC5.3.2.a: Identify inherited characteristics of plants and animals
SC5.3.3: Students will describe relationships within an ecosystem.
SC5.3.3.a: Diagram and explain a simple food chain beginning with the Sun
SC5.3.3.b: Identify the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem
SC5.3.3.c: Recognize the living and nonliving factors that impact the survival of organisms in an ecosystem
SC5.3.3.d: Recognize all organisms cause changes, some beneficial and some detrimental, in the environment where they live
SC5.4.1: Students will observe and describe characteristics, patterns, and changes in the sky.
SC5.4.1.a: Recognize that the observed shape of the Moon changes from day to day during a one month period
SC5.4.1.b: Recognize the motion of objects in the sky (the Sun, the Moon, stars) change over time in recognizable patterns
SC5.4.2: Students will observe and describe Earth’s materials, structure, and processes.
SC5.4.2.a: Describe the characteristics of rocks, minerals, soil, water, and the atmosphere
Growing Plants
Mineral Identification
SC5.4.2.b: Identify weathering, erosion, and deposition as processes that build up or break down Earth’s surface
SC5.4.3: Students will observe and describe the effects of energy changes on Earth.
SC5.4.3.b: Observe, measure, and record changes in weather (temperature, wind direction and speed, precipitation)
SC5.4.3.c: Recognize the difference between weather, climate, and seasons
Summer and Winter
Weather Maps
Weather Maps - Metric
SC5.4.4: Students will describe changes in Earth.
SC5.4.4.a: Describe how slow processes (erosion, weathering, deposition) and rapid processes (landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes) change Earth’s surface
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020