1: Earth’s Systems
5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
Carbon Cycle
Coastal Winds and Clouds
Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric
Erosion Rates
Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Effect - Metric
Hurricane Motion
Hurricane Motion - Metric
River Erosion
Rock Cycle
Water Cycle
Weathering
5-ESS2-2: Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Water Cycle
5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Water Pollution
2: Space Systems
5-PS2-1: Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Free Fall Tower
Gravity Pitch
5-ESS1-2: Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.
Observing Weather (Customary)
Observing Weather (Metric)
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Summer and Winter
3: Structure and Properties of Matter
5-PS1-1: Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Phase Changes
Phases of Water
5-PS1-2: Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
Chemical Changes
5-PS1-3: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Chemical Changes
Circuit Builder
Magnetism
Mineral Identification
Mystery Powder Analysis
Solubility and Temperature
5-PS1-4: Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
Chemical Changes
4: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
5-PS3-1: Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
Energy Conversions
5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
Plants and Snails
5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
Carbon Cycle
Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Plants and Snails
Prairie Ecosystem
Ecosystems
5: Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science
5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Digestive System
Trebuchet
5-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Digestive System
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet
5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
Digestive System
Trebuchet
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020