North Carolina Grade 5 science standards

ESS.5.1.1 Analyze and interpret data to compare daily and seasonal changes in weather conditions (including wind speed and direction, precipitation, and temperature) and patterns.

Lessons: Weather Detectives (Is it hotter by the slide?, Why do farmers care about the last frost?) (partly)

Practice: Weather Detectives workbook

ESS.5.1.4 Use models to explain how the sun’s energy drives the processes of the water cycle (including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation).

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (How does a cloud form?) (partly) · Winter Science at Home (Can you make frost in a can?) (partly) · Our Living Planet (Where does rain come from?) (partly) · Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating (How can you get fresh water out of salt water?) (partly) · Solids, Liquids and Gases (Where does a puddle go?) (partly)

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

LS.5.1.2 Use models to compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, nervous) as it relates to their functions necessary for life.

Lessons: How Your Body Works (Why does your heart beat faster when you run?, What happens to your lunch?, How does your arm bend?) (partly)

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

LS.5.2.2 Use models to classify organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers.

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? (What would happen if the wolves disappeared?, Who cleans up?)

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

LS.5.2.3 Use models to infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationships of plants and animals to their ecosystem.

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? (What would happen if the wolves disappeared?)

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

PS.5.1.1 Carry out investigations to compare the weight of objects before and after an interaction.

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?) · Solids, Liquids and Gases (Why does ice float?) (partly)

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

PS.5.1.2 Carry out investigations to explain whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families (What makes a volcano erupt?, How do spies write secret messages?) · Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating (Where does the salt go when it disappears in water?, Can a filter make muddy water safe to drink?)

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

PS.5.2.1 Carry out investigations to explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.

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?) (partly) · Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys (Do heavy things really fall faster?, What pushes back on a moving thing?)

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