Academic Standards
SC.5.1.1.a: Students can: Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
SC.5.1.1.b: Students can: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Chemical Changes
Circuit Builder
Magnetism
Mineral Identification
Mystery Powder Analysis
Solubility and Temperature
SC.5.1.2.a: Students can: 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.
SC.5.1.2.b: Students can: Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
SC.5.1.3.a: Students can: Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
SC.5.1.4.a: Students can: Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
SC.5.2.1.a: Students can: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
SC.5.2.2.a: Students can: 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
SC.5.3.2.a: Students can: 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
SC.5.3.3.a: Students can: 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
SC.5.3.4.a: Students can: Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of saltwater and freshwater in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
SC.5.3.5.a: Students can: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Correlation last revised: 8/16/2022