Florida Grade 5 science standards

SC.5.E.7.1 Create a model to explain the parts of the water cycle. The jar cloud models only the cooling-and-condensing part (partial).

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (Where do rainbows come from?, How do crystals grow?, How does a cloud form?) · Our Living Planet (Can a jar keep itself alive?, Where does rain come from?)

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

SC.5.E.7.3 Recognize how air temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation determine the weather in a particular place and time.

Lessons: Weather Detectives (Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?, Is it hotter by the slide?, Why do farmers care about the last frost?)

Practice: Weather Detectives workbook

SC.5.E.7.5 Recognize that some weather-related differences, such as temperature and humidity, are found among different environments, such as swamps, deserts, and mountains (partial: chinook over the Rockies).

Lessons: Weather Detectives (Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?, Is it hotter by the slide?, Why do farmers care about the last frost?)

Practice: Weather Detectives workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

SC.5.L.14.2 Compare and contrast the function of organs and other physical structures of plants and animals (an adjacent-grade match: skin, eyes, nose and ears).

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?

Practice: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science

SC.5.L.17.1 Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals that enable them to survive in different environments (an adjacent-grade match: blubber, fur, feathers and huddling).

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm

Practice: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science

SC.5.N.1.3 Recognize and explain the need for repeated experimental trials. Each plane is thrown three times and the results are averaged.

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (Can you drop an egg without breaking it?, What makes a paper plane fly farthest?, How does a rocket push itself into space?) · Evidence Lab (How do you know a fact is true?, Why do scientists repeat their tests?)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook · Evidence Lab workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Think Like a Scientist: The Scientific Method workbook · Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

SC.5.N.1.6 Recognize and explain the difference between personal opinion/interpretation and verified observation (a lower-grade match: rating chatbot, ad and forum claims).

Lessons: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers (Does salt make water boil faster?, Is that AI answer true?, Which source should we trust?)

SC.5.N.2.1 Recognize and explain that science is grounded in empirical observations that are testable; explanation must always be linked with evidence (a lower-grade match).

Lessons: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers (Does salt make water boil faster?, Is that AI answer true?, Which source should we trust?)

Practice: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Build It, Launch It workbook · Evidence Lab workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Think Like a Scientist: The Scientific Method workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

SC.5.P.8.1 Compare and contrast the basic properties of solids, liquids, and gases, such as mass, volume, colour, texture, and temperature. Water and ice have the same mass but different volume.

Lessons: Solids, Liquids and Gases (Where does a puddle go?, Why does ice float?)

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

SC.5.P.8.2 Investigate and identify materials that will dissolve in water and the conditions that speed up or slow down dissolving. Salt, Epsom salt and sugar solutions for crystal growing (partial).

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (Where do rainbows come from?, How do crystals grow?, How does a cloud form?)

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

SC.5.P.8.4 Explore the scientific theory of atoms by recognizing that all matter is composed of parts too small to be seen without magnification. Evaporation is explained with particles (partial; atoms are not named).

Lessons: Solids, Liquids and Gases (Where does a puddle go?, Why does ice float?)

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

SC.5.P.10.4 Investigate and explain that electrical energy can be transformed into heat, light, and sound energy (an adjacent-grade match: bulb, LED and buzzer).

Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up

Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From workbook

SC.5.P.11.1 Investigate and illustrate the fact that the flow of electricity requires a closed circuit (a complete loop) (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up

Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook

SC.5.P.11.2 Identify and classify materials that conduct electricity and materials that do not (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up

Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook

SC.5.P.13.2 Investigate and describe that the greater the force applied to an object, the greater the change in motion. Kids test how much air in the balloon changes how far the rocket travels.

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (Can you drop an egg without breaking it?, What makes a paper plane fly farthest?, How does a rocket push itself into space?)

Practice: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook

SC.5.P.13.3 Investigate and describe that the more mass an object has, the less effect a given force will have on the object's motion (a lower-grade match: loaded cart).

Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop

Practice: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop workbook