Alabama Grade 5 science standards

SC23.5.1 Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (How do crystals grow?, How does a cloud form?) (partly) · Kitchen Chemistry for Families (Why do the blobs in a lava lamp go up and down?, What makes a volcano erupt?) (partly) · Winter Science at Home (Can you make frost in a can?) (partly) · Solids, Liquids and Gases (Where does a puddle go?, Why does ice float?) · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong (How do salt farmers turn the sea into salt?, How do rice terraces stop a mountain washing away?, How can a house stay dry when the Mekong floods?)

Practice: Earth and Sky at Home workbook · Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Winter Science at Home workbook · Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook

SC23.5.2 Analyze data collected through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties, including color, hardness, and reflectivity.

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families (How do spies write secret messages?) (partly) · Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating (Where does the salt go when it disappears in water?, How can you get fresh water out of salt water?) (partly) · Solids, Liquids and Gases (Why does ice float?) (partly)

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating workbook · Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook · Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals

SC23.5.3 Conduct investigations to provide evidence that the total weight of matter is conserved during phase changes when substances are heated, cooled, or mixed.

Lessons: Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating (Where does the salt go when it disappears in water?, How can you get fresh water out of salt water?) (partly) · Solids, Liquids and Gases (Why does ice float?)

Practice: Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating workbook · Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook

SC23.5.4 Analyze data from tests to determine whether a new substance is formed after two or more substances are combined.

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families (What makes a volcano erupt?, How do spies write secret messages?)

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook

SC23.5.5 Make a claim, supported by evidence, that the gravitational force exerted by Earth pulls objects towards the center of Earth.

Lessons: Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys (Do heavy things really fall faster?) · The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale (What is each world like?) (partly)

Practice: Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys workbook · The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale workbook

SC23.5.8 Use evidence to explain that energy from the sun is present in animals’ food and is used for body repair, growth, motion, and maintenance of body warmth.

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? (Where does a plant get its food?, What would happen if the wolves disappeared?) (partly)

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook

SC23.5.7 Support an argument from evidence that plants primarily use air and water to process matter needed for growth.

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? (Where does a plant get its food?)

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook

SC23.5.11 Analyze data that reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, phases of the moon, and seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

Lessons: Stars and the Night Sky (Why do the stars seem to move across the sky?, Why do we see different stars in different seasons?) (partly) · Sun, Earth and Moon (Why do we have day and night?, Does the Sun really move across the sky?, Why are there seasons, and why do some places barely have them?) (partly) · The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice (Why are summer days longer?, Why is sunlight stronger in summer?) (partly)

Practice: Stars and the Night Sky workbook · Sun, Earth and Moon workbook · The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice workbook

SC23.5.12 Use a model to represent how any two of Earth's systems (atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere) interact and support life.

Lessons: The Water Cycle, Start to Finish (Where has the water in your glass been?, Can you make a mini water cycle?) (partly) · Weather Detectives (Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?) (partly)

Practice: The Water Cycle, Start to Finish workbook · Weather Detectives workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

SC23.5.14 Obtain and evaluate information to communicate how science-based solutions are being used to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment.

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better (partly) · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (How can a town use less and waste less?)

Practice: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook