Grade 5 Science
14 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Life Science: Meeting Basic Needs and Maintaining a Healthy Body.
- Physical Science: Properties and Changes in materials.
- Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines.
- Earth and Space Science: Weather.
Units
Unit 1
Digestion & Breathing
How food travels through the digestive system and air through the respiratory system, plus reading a breathing-rate table.
Curriculum outcome: Life Science: Meeting Basic Needs and Maintaining a Healthy Body · the digestive and respiratory systems and what each organ does
Unit 2
Heart, Bones & Muscles
The heart and blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and tendons, how body systems work together, and heart-rate data.
Curriculum outcome: Life Science: Meeting Basic Needs and Maintaining a Healthy Body · the circulatory system, bones and muscles, and how the body moves
Unit 3
Body Teamwork
The nervous and excretory systems, how body systems depend on each other, and which organs some common diseases and disorders affect.
Curriculum outcome: Life Science: Meeting Basic Needs and Maintaining a Healthy Body · how the nervous, excretory and other body systems work together
Unit 4
Heart Rate and Reaction Time
Children investigate what affects breathing and heart rate, and how fast the body responds, and learn how the excretory system works.
Curriculum outcome: Life Science: Meeting Basic Needs and Maintaining a Healthy Body · testing factors that affect breathing, heart rate and response time, and the excretory system
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.
Curriculum outcome: Physical Science: Properties and Changes in materials · solids, liquids and gases, and the properties that tell materials apart
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.
Curriculum outcome: Physical Science: Properties and Changes in materials · physical changes such as melting, freezing and evaporating, and whether they can be reversed
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.
Curriculum outcome: Physical Science: Properties and Changes in materials · physical and chemical changes, including changes that make new materials
Unit 8
Mixtures, Changes and Reactions
How matter changes state with temperature, the difference between a mixture, a physical change and a chemical reaction, and why no matter is gained or lost.
Curriculum outcome: Physical Science: Properties and Changes in materials · states of matter, mixtures and the signs of chemical change
Unit 9
Simple Machines
The six simple machines, how machines trade force for distance, compound machines, and reading data from a ramp experiment.
Curriculum outcome: Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines · levers, ramps, pulleys, wheels and screws that make work easier
Unit 10
Forces, Friction and Machines
Forces as pushes, pulls and twists, how friction affects motion, and how friction makes simple machines less efficient.
Curriculum outcome: Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines · pushes, pulls and friction, and machines that help us move things
Unit 11
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.
Curriculum outcome: Earth and Space Science: Weather · what makes weather change, the water cycle and weather tools
Unit 12
Weather Watchers
Children use instruments to measure temperature, wind, precipitation and cloud cover, classify clouds and record weather data.
Curriculum outcome: Earth and Space Science: Weather · weather instruments, measuring and recording weather, and classifying clouds
Unit 13
Sun, Air and Weather
Children relate the sun’s energy to weather, learn that air takes up space and has mass, and see how warm and cold air and water masses move.
Curriculum outcome: Earth and Space Science: Weather · how the sun's energy, moving air and water masses and the water cycle shape weather
Unit 14
Measure, Stay Safe and Take Action
Choosing and using tools and SI units, displaying data, working safely, linking science to careers and hobbies, and thinking about actions to help the environment.
Curriculum outcome: GCO 2 · choosing the right tool and unit to measure, and staying safe
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