5th+Grade

5th Grade Science Wiki Page = = **Core Content Committee (CCC) Representative: Susan Canada** **Contributors:**
 * Grade 5: **

ODE Revised Science Standards = = **Inquiry Focus:** Science Inquiry and Application During the years of grades 5-8, all students must use the following scientific processes, with appropriate laboratory safety techniques, to construct their knowledge and understanding in all science content areas: • Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations; • Design and conduct a scientific investigation; • Use appropriate mathematics, tools and techniques to gather data and information; • Analyze and interpret data; • Develop descriptions, models, explanations and predictions; • Think critically and logically to connect evidence and explanations; • Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predications; and • Communicate scientific procedures and explanations. = = **Units:**
 * Standards & Model Curriculum **

**Fall Kit: Motion, Forces, and Models (Third Edition)** **Overview of Activities**


 * Winter Kit: **** Sun, Moon, Planets  **


 * Spring Kit: **** Ecosystems **

**Curriculum Materials & Resources**

Earth and Space Science: Sun, Moon, and Planets - FOSS (New Kit) Physical Science: Motion, Force, and Models - FOSS (New Kit) Life Science: Ecosystems - STC

= = = Life Science (LS) = Foss Kit: Ecosystems This topic focuses on foundational knowledge of the structures and functions of ecosystems.
 * FOSS WEB (student and teacher resources)**: @http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/index.html
 * === Organisms Role in an Ecosystem ===

• Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem. • All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.

I can statements:

I can design and build a self-sustaining ecosystem, such as a terrarium or bottle biology, and record procedures of maintenance.

If given a list of organisms and a description of their interactions within an environment, I can classify them as producers, consumers, decomposers or by type of symbiotic relationships (mutualism, commensalism and parasitism).

I can compare the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers and explain how they work together within an ecosystem.

= Physical Science (PS) = Foss Kit: Motion, Forces, and Models (Third Edition) This topic focuses on the forces that affect motion. This includes the relationship between the change in speed of an object, the amount of force applied and the mass of the object. Light and sound are explored as forms of energy that move in predictable ways, depending on the matter through which they move.
 * === Light and Sound Energy ===
 * === Movement of an Object Due to Mass and Force ===

• The amount of change in movement of an object is based on the mass of the object and the amount of force exerted. • Light and sound are forms of energy that behave in predicable ways.

I can statements:

Movement of Light Through Jell-o

= Earth and Space Science (ESS) =

Foss Kit: Sun, Moon, and Planets This topic focuses on the characteristics, cycles and patterns in the solar system and within the universe.
 * === Solar System ===

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• The solar system includes the sun and all celestial bodies that orbit the sun. Each planet in the solar system has unique characteristics. • The sun is one of many stars that exist in the universe. • Most of the cycles and patterns of motion between the Earth and sun are predictable. =====

I Can Statements
I can build a scaled model of a major planet that can demonstrate the planet's size and rotation in relationship to the sun and the Earth.

I can make a graphic, (ex:chart,table), that interprets the general characteristics of the major planets in the solar system.

I can do research and make a timeline on the history of space exploration and discoveries past and present.

I can make a graphic, (table, chart), to explain the differences between the sun and a red dwarf or blue giant star.

**Additional INQUIRY Instructional Resources (Lessons, Assessments, Video, Content Information, etc.):**

**FOSS Science Activity Kits in Relation to Ohio Common Core Content Standards**

[[file:literacymalden/Lit science grade 5.doc|5th Grade Reading Streets Correlation to Current Ohio Science Standards ]]
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Physical Science (PS) Lessons:

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