Virginia Grade 5 science standards

5.1 Scientific and engineering practices: compare and contrast data collected by different groups and discuss similarities and differences in findings (an adjacent-grade match: pooling class data).

Lessons: Evidence Lab (How do you know a fact is true?, Why do scientists repeat their tests?) · 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: Evidence Lab workbook · Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Build It, Launch It 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

5.3 Investigate and understand the relationship between force and the energy of moving objects: changes in motion are related to net force and mass, and contact forces transfer energy when objects collide (an adjacent-grade match: egg drop and rocket).

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?) · Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (Why does a ball stop rolling?, Can a magnet work through a table?, How far will a paper clip jump?) · Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop

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

5.4 Electricity flows easily through conductors but not insulators, and flows through closed circuits (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

5.5 Sound is produced when an object or substance vibrates, and different media transmit sound differently (an adjacent-grade match: the string telephone).

Lessons: Sound: Can You See a Sound? (Can you see a sound?, Can a string carry your voice?, How do you make a high note or a low note?)

Practice: Sound: Can You See a Sound? workbook · Grade 4 Sound: Vibrations, Pitch and Echoes

5.6 Visible light has certain characteristics: the visible spectrum includes light with different wavelengths, and matter influences the path of light (the rainbow lesson; wavelengths are not taught).

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

Practice: Grade 4 Light and Colour

5.7 Matter has properties and interactions: matter is composed of atoms, and energy has an effect on the phases of matter (partial; atoms are not named).

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families · Winter Science at Home (Can you make frost in a can?, Why does salt melt ice?, What's inside a snowflake?) · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm · Solids, Liquids and Gases (Where does a puddle go?, Why does ice float?) · Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move · Kitchen Chemistry (Is it a new substance?, Where does the mass go?, Can red cabbage tell acid from base?)

Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook

5.8 Processes such as weathering, erosion, and deposition change the surface of the Earth (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape

Practice: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook

5.9 The conservation of energy resources is important: individuals and communities have means of conserving both energy and matter (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From (Where does our classroom's electricity come from?, Can the wind power our school?, Why don't we use solar power everywhere?)

Practice: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook