Grade 5 Science
7 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Grade focus: Living and Technological Systems.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to solve problems relating to simple machines or human systems: digestive, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, and musculoskeletal.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze data to construct explanations and conclusions based on evidence from scientific inquiry.
- Scientific Literacy: Communication. Communicate procedure, result, and conclusion of scientific inquiry using a variety of media.
- Learning & Living Sustainably: Responsible and Sustainable Application. Apply scientific and technological knowledge and an understanding of sustainable practices responsibly with respect to simple machines and human systems.
Units
Unit 1
Weather and the Water Cycle
How the Sun, air, water and land interact to cause daily weather, the water cycle, tools for measuring weather, and why long-term forecasting is hard.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · weather and the water cycle
Unit 2
Forces, Friction and Machines
Forces as pushes, pulls and twists, how friction affects motion, and how friction makes simple machines less efficient.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · forces, friction and machines
Unit 3
Simple Machines
The six simple machines, how machines trade force for distance, compound machines, and reading data from a ramp experiment.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · how simple machines change the size and direction of a force
Unit 4
Digestion & Breathing
How food travels through the digestive system and air through the respiratory system, plus reading a breathing-rate table.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · how the digestive and respiratory systems work
Unit 5
Heart, Bones & Muscles
The heart and blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and tendons, how body systems work together, and heart-rate data.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · how the circulatory and musculoskeletal systems work
Unit 6
Changes of State
Melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation at home and outdoors, and how matter absorbs or releases thermal energy when it changes state.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · changes of state
Unit 7
Physical or Chemical?
Telling a physical change from a chemical change, spotting the signs of a new substance, and how making and throwing away everyday products affects the environment.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · physical and chemical changes
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