Grade 5 Science
12 units matched to the Ontario Curriculum.
Overall expectations
- A1 STEM Investigation and Communication Skills: Use a scientific research process, a scientific experimentation process, and an engineering design process to conduct investigations, following appropriate health and safety procedures
- A2 Coding and Emerging Technologies: Use coding in investigations and to model concepts, and assess the impact of coding and of emerging technologies on everyday life and in STEM-related fields
- A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences
- B1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Analyse impacts of various social and environmental factors, human activities, and technologies on human health
- B2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of human body systems and interactions within and between systems
- C1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Assess the impacts on society and the environment of various processes and materials used in the manufacture of common products, and ways to mitigate negative impacts
- C2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of matter, changes of state, and physical and chemical change
- D1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Analyse social and environmental impacts of forces acting on structures, and assess ways to mitigate these impacts
- D2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of forces that act on structures, and how various structures withstand them
- E1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Assess effects of energy and resource use on society and the environment, and suggest options for conserving energy and resources
- E2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of the conservation of energy, and the forms, sources, and uses of energy and resources
Units
Unit 1
Healthy Choices
How sleep, activity, air quality, sun, sound and food choices affect health, how technologies help or harm, and reading labels.
Expectation: B1.1–B1.3 · factors and technologies that affect health, and food literacy
Unit 2
Digestion & Breathing
How food travels through the digestive system and air through the respiratory system, plus reading a breathing-rate table.
Expectation: B2.1, B2.2 · the digestive and respiratory systems and their vital organs
Unit 3
Heart, Bones & Muscles
The heart and blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and tendons, how body systems work together, and heart-rate data.
Expectation: B2.1–B2.3 · the circulatory and musculoskeletal systems, and how body systems work together
Unit 4
Body Teamwork
The nervous and excretory systems, how body systems depend on each other, and which organs some common diseases and disorders affect.
Expectation: B2.1, B2.3, B2.4 · the nervous and excretory systems, how systems interact, and common diseases and disorders
Unit 5
Solid, Liquid, Gas
Matter as anything with mass and volume, how particles are arranged in solids, liquids and gases, and why materials are chosen for their properties.
Expectation: C2.1, C2.2, C2.7 · matter, mass and volume, the states of matter, and why properties make materials useful
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.
Expectation: C2.3, C2.6 · melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation, and thermal energy
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.
Expectation: C1.1, C1.2, C2.4, C2.5 · physical and chemical changes, signs of a chemical change, and the impact of making common products
Unit 8
Forces on Structures
Tension, compression, torsion and shear, loads and natural forces such as wind, snow and earthquakes, and how buildings, animals and safety gear cope with them.
Expectation: D1.1, D1.2, D2.1–D2.5 · internal and external forces, loads, and how structures, living things and protective equipment withstand forces
Unit 9
Forms of Energy
Kinetic and potential energy, how energy changes from one form to another, and why some energy always escapes as heat, light or sound.
Expectation: E2.1–E2.4 · forms of energy, potential and kinetic energy, and the conservation of energy
Unit 10
Energy Sources
Renewable and non-renewable sources, how burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change, and everyday ways to use less energy.
Expectation: E1.1, E1.2, E2.5, E2.6 · renewable and non-renewable energy, fossil fuels and climate change, and saving energy with technology
Unit 11
Natural Resources
Renewable and non-renewable resources, Earth materials we use, responsible use (including First Peoples' sustainable practices), and a school waste-audit graph.
Expectation: E1.1, E2.5 · renewable and non-renewable resources and using them wisely
Unit 12
Think Like a Scientist
Planning a fair test, working safely, choosing how to show results, the steps of engineering design, and basic coding ideas such as loops and variables.
Expectation: A1.1–A1.5, A2.1, A2.2, A3.1 · investigation skills, safety, communicating results, coding and careers
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