Grade 5

Embedded Inquiry

Embedded Technology & Engineering

Life Science

Earth and Space Science

Physical Science

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Standard 1 - Cells

Standard 2 - Interdependence

Standard 3 - Flow of Matter and Energy

Standard 4 - Heredity

Standard 5 - Biodiversity and Change

Standard 6 - The Universe

Standard 7 – The Earth

Standard 8 - The Atmosphere

Standard 9 - Matter

Standard 10 - Energy

Standard 11 - Motion

Standard 12 - Forces in Nature

Explore different scientific phenomena by asking questions, making logical predictions, planning investigations, and recording data.

Select and use appropriate tools and simple equipment to conduct an investigation.

Organize data into appropriate tables, graphs, drawings, or diagrams.

Identify and interpret simple patterns of evidence to communicate the findings of multiple investigations.

Recognize that people may interpret the same results in different ways.

Compare the results of an investigation with what scientists already accept about this question.

Identify specific investigations that could be used to answer a particular question and identify reasons for this choice.

Identify tools needed to investigate specific questions.

Maintain a science notebook that includes observations, data, diagrams, and explanations.

Analyze and communicate findings from multiple investigations of similar phenomena to reach a conclusion.

Select an investigation that could be used to answer a specific question.

Describe how tools, technology, and inventions help to answer questions and solve problems.

Recognize that new tools, technology, and inventions are always being developed.

Identify appropriate materials, tools, and machines that can extend or enhance the ability to solve a specified problem.

Recognize the connection between scientific advances, new knowledge, and the availability of new tools and technologies.

Apply a creative design strategy to solve a particular problem generated by societal needs and wants.

Explain how different inventions and technologies impact people and other living organisms.

Design a tool or a process that addresses an identified problem caused by human activity.

Determine criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of a solution to a specified problem.

Evaluate an invention that solves a problem and determine ways to improve the design.

Select a tool, technology, or invention that was used to solve a human problem.

Recognize the connection between a scientific advance and the development of a new tool or technology.

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

State Performance Indicators

Distinguish between the basic structures and functions of plant and animal cells.

Label drawings of plant and animals cells.

Compare and contrast the basic structures and functions of plant and animal cells.

Identify the major parts of plant and animal cells such as, the nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, and cytoplasm.

Compare and contrast basic structures and functions of plant and animal cells.

Investigate different nutritional relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

Explain how organisms interact through symbiotic, commensal, and parasitic relationships.

Establish the connections between human activities and natural disasters and their impact on the environment.

Evaluate producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships.

Classify interspecific relationships within an ecosystem as mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism.

Create a simple model illustrating the interspecific relationships within an ecosystem.

Analyze basic information from a body of text to identify key issues or assumptions about the relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

Create a poster to illustrate how human activities and natural disasters affect the environment.

Describe the different types of nutritional relationships that exist among organisms.

Distinguish among symbiotic, commensal, and parasitic relationships.

Use information about the impact of human actions or natural disasters on the environment to support a simple hypothesis, make a prediction, or draw a conclusion.

Demonstrate how all living things rely on the process of photosynthesis to obtain energy.

Identify the cell structures that enable plants to conduct photosynthesis.

Design a graphic organizer that illustrates the difference between plants and animals in the movement of food energy through an ecosystem.

Identify photosynthesis as the food manufacturing process in plants.

Compare how plants and animals obtain energy.

Describe how genetic information is passed from parents to offspring during reproduction.

Recognize that some characteristics are inherited while others result from interactions with the environment.

Explain how genetic information is transmitted from parents to offspring.

Create a chart that compares hereditary and environmental traits.

Distinguish between a scar and a birthmark in terms of their origins.

Recognize that information is passed from parent to offspring during reproduction.

Distinguish between inherited traits and those that can be attributed to the environment.

Investigate physical characteristics associated with different groups of animals.

Analyze fossils to demonstrate the connection between organisms and environments that existed in the past and those that currently exist.

Classify animals according to their physical characteristics.

Design a model to illustrate how an animal's physical characteristics enable it to survive in a particular environment.

Identify the processes associated with fossil formation.

Use fossil evidence to describe an environment from the past.

Use fossils to match a previously existing organism with one that exists today.

Identify physical and behavioral adaptations that enable animals such as, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals to survive in a particular environment.

Explain how fossils provide information about the past.

Compare planets based on their known characteristics.

Recognize that charts can be used to locate and identify star patterns.

Develop a chart that communicates the major characteristics of each planet.

Use images of the night sky to identify different seasonal star patterns.

Research a star pattern using a chart.

Distinguish among the planets according to their known characteristics such as appearance, location, composition, and apparent motion.

Select information from a complex data representation to draw conclusions about the planets.

Identify methods and tools for identifying star patterns.

Compare geologic events responsible for the earth's major geological features.

Create a model to illustrate geologic events responsible for changes in the earth's crust.

Prepare a chart to compare how volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting, and plate movements affect the earth's surface features.

Describe internal forces such as volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting, and plate movements that are responsible for the earth's major geological features such as mountains, valleys, etc.

Analyze and predict how major landforms and bodies of water affect atmospheric conditions.

Compare the climates of coastal and inland areas at similar latitudes to demonstrate the ocean's impact on weather and climate.

Use land maps to demonstrate how mountain ranges affect weather and climate.

Use weather maps of the United States to graph temperature and precipitation for inland and coastal regions.

Use local environmental information to analyze how weather and climate are affected by landforms and bodies of water.

Describe the effects of the oceans on weather and climate.

Explain how mountains affect weather and climate.

Observe and measure the simple chemical properties of common substances.

Design and conduct an experiment to demonstrate how various types of matter freeze, melt, or evaporate.

Investigate factors that affect the rate at which various materials freeze, melt, or evaporate.

Compare the simple chemical properties of common substances.

Investigate how different types of materials freeze, melt, evaporate, or dissipate.

Use data from a simple investigation to determine how temperature change affects the rate of evaporation and condensation.

Distinguish between physical and chemical properties.

Describe the differences among freezing, melting, and evaporation.

Describe factors that influence the rate at which different types of material freeze, melt, or evaporate.

Design an experiment to illustrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy.

Conduct experiments on the transfer of heat energy through conduction, convection, and radiation.

Design and conduct an investigation to demonstrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy.

Create a graphic organizer that illustrates different types of potential and kinetic energy.

Describe the differences among conduction, convection, and radiation.

Create a poster to illustrate the major forms of energy.

Demonstrate different ways that energy can be transferred from one object to another.

Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy.

Use data from an investigation to determine the method by which heat energy is transferred from one object or material to another.

Design an investigation, collect data and draw conclusions about the relationship among mass, force, and distance traveled.

Predict how the amount of mass affects the distance traveled given the same amount of applied force.

Prepare statements about the relationship among mass, applied force, and distance traveled.

Design and conduct experiments using a simple experimental design to demonstrate the relationship among mass, force, and distance traveled.

Explain the relationship that exist among mass, force, and distance traveled.

Recognize that the earth attracts objects without directly touching them.

Investigate how the shape of an object influences the way that it falls toward the earth.

Provide examples of how forces can act at a distance.

Explain and give examples of how forces act at a distance.

Demonstrate how the shape of an object affects how it falls toward the earth.

Design and explain an investigation exploring the earth's pull on objects.

Recognize that the earth attracts objects without touching them.

Identify the force that causes objects to fall to the earth.

Use data to determine how shape affects the rate at which a material falls to earth.