Grade 5 Science
10 units matched to the Saskatchewan Curriculum.
Strands and outcomes
- Life Science: Human Body Systems (HB5.1–HB5.3): Analyze personal and societal requirements for, and the impact of, maintaining a healthy human body. Investigate the structure, function, and major organs of one or more human body systems such as the digestive… Assess how multiple human body systems function together to enable people to move, grow, and react to stimuli.
- Physical Science: Properties and Changes of Materials (MC5.1–MC5.3): Investigate the characteristics and physical properties of materials in solid, liquid, and gaseous states of… Investigate how reversible and non-reversible changes, including changes of state, alter materials. Assess how the production, use, and disposal of raw materials and manufactured products affects self, society, and…
- Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines (FM5.1–FM5.3): Analyze the effects of gravitational, magnetic, and mechanical forces, including friction, on the movement of… Investigate characteristics of simple machines, including levers, wheels and axles, pulleys, inclined planes… Assess how natural and man-made forces and simple machines affect individuals, society, and the environment.
- Earth and Space Science: Weather (WE5.1–WE5.3): Measure and represent local weather, including temperature, wind speed and direction, amount of sunlight… Investigate local, national, and global weather conditions, including the role of air movement and solar energy… Analyze the impact of weather on society and the environment, including technologies that help humans address…
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.
Outcome: HB5.1 · factors that affect a healthy body
Unit 2
Digestion & Breathing
How food travels through the digestive system and air through the respiratory system, plus reading a breathing-rate table.
Outcome: HB5.2 · structures and functions of the digestive and respiratory systems
Unit 3
Heart, Bones & Muscles
The heart and blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and tendons, how body systems work together, and heart-rate data.
Outcome: HB5.2 · structures and functions of the circulatory and musculoskeletal systems
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.
Outcome: HB5.3 · how body systems work together
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.
Outcome: MC5.1 · properties of solids, liquids and gases
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.
Outcome: MC5.2 · reversible changes, including 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.
Outcome: MC5.2 · reversible and non-reversible changes to materials
Unit 8
Simple Machines
The six simple machines, how machines trade force for distance, compound machines, and reading data from a ramp experiment.
Outcome: FM5.2 · levers, wheels and axles, pulleys, inclined planes and other simple machines
Unit 9
Measuring Weather
The tools that measure weather (thermometer, anemometer, wind vane, rain gauge, barometer), cloud types, fair measuring, and reading graphs of weather data.
Outcome: WE5.1 · measuring and representing local weather: temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation and cloud type
Unit 10
Weather Patterns & Impacts
How the Sun's heat moves air and water, high and low pressure, fronts, the water cycle, severe prairie weather (blizzards, hail, tornadoes, drought, floods), and how forecasts and technology help people stay safe.
Outcome: WE5.2, WE5.3 · how air movement and solar energy create weather, and the impact of weather on society and the environment
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