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Lab Information: |
- Filler paper for 3-ring binders
- Dividers - Pen and pencils |
5th Grade Lab: Tuesdays 10:45-12:00
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Classwork Expectations |
Google Classroom |
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Classroom Rules
Science Grading PolicyThe grading breakdown provides clusters showing the different kinds of work we will be completing this year, and it is available on the OnCourse Online Portal. Students are responsible for their work even if they are absent.
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Classroom Consequences
1st consequence: Warning
2nd consequence: Time-out (Take some time to regroup) 3rd consequence: Email/Phone call to parents and lower conduct grade Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)This website provides the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) that students will learn in the current grade.
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5th Grade Science Units
- Unit 1: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems Core Ideas:
- Plants acquire (receive) their material for growth mainly from air and water.
- The food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants.
- Some organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, break down dead organisms (both plants or plants parts and animals) and therefore operate as “decomposers.” Decomposition eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil.
- Organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met.
- A healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life. Newly introduced species can damage the balance of an ecosystem.
- Matter cycles between the air and soil and among plants, animals, and microbes as these organisms live and die. Organisms obtain gases, and water, from the environment, and release waste matter (gas, liquid, or solid) back into the environment.
- The energy released from food was once energy from the sun that was captured by plants in the chemical process that forms plant matter (from air and water).
- Food provides animals with the materials they need for body repair and growth and the energy they need to maintain body warmth and for motion.
- Unit 2: Properties of Matter Core Ideas:
- Different measurements and properties can be used to identify materials.
- Matter of any type can be subdivided into particles that are too small to see, but even then the matter still exists and can be detected by other means.
- A model showing that gases are made from matter particles that are too small to see and are moving freely around in space can explain many observations.
- Unit 3: Changes to Matter Core Ideas:
- The amount (weight) of matter is conserved when it changes form, even in transitions (changes) in which it seems to vanish (disappear).
- When two or more different substances are mixed, a new substance with different properties may be formed.
- Unit 4: Interactions Within the Earth, Sun, and Moon System Core Ideas:
- The gravitational force (gravity) of Earth acting on an object near Earth’s surface pulls that object toward the planet’s center.
- The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is closer. Stars vary greatly in their distance from Earth.
- The orbits of Earth around the sun and the moon around Earth cause patterns that we can observe.
- The rotation of Earth on its axis between its North and South poles cause patterns that we can observe.
- Patterns that we can observe because of the orbit and rotation:
- Day and night
- Daily changes in the length and direction of shadows
- Different positions of the sun, moon, and stars at different times of the day, month, and year.
- Unit 5: Earth Systems
- Unit 6: Water on the Earth