| week | Unit | Topic | Weekly Learning Target | Next Generation Science Standards Covered | Interactive ScienceLocation | Suggested Lesson Plans | Suggested Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Fifth Grade Science Introduction | Classroom Rules and Expectations | Students can follow the rules and understand procedures and expectations in science class. Students can ask questions and use skills like a scientist. | SP1 SP3 |
Skills 1.1 & 1.2 | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 2 | Answering Questions | Students can follow the rules and understand procedures and expectations in science class. Students can answer questions like a scientist. | SP2 SP7 SP8 |
Skills 1.3 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 3 | Drawing Conclusions | Students can follow the rules and understand procedures and expectations in science class. Students can draw conclusions like a scientist. | SP1 SP3 SP4 |
Skills 1.4 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 4 | Properties of Matter | Introduction to Matter | Students can use models to investigate that matter is made up of particles that are too small to be seen. | 5.PS1.1 |
Unit 1.1 TE99a | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 5 | Comparing Matter | Students can compare and contrast solids, liquids, and gases by using their basic properties. | 5.PS1.1 5.PS1.3 |
Unit 1.2 TE99c | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 6 | Measuring Matter | Students can observe and measure properties of states of matter and will identify phase changes. | 5.PS1.1 |
Unit 1.3 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 7 | Mixtures and Solutions | Students can investigate properties of solutions and can provide evidence for whether mixtures can be separated based on the properties of their parts. | 5.PS1.4 |
Unit 1.4 TE99d | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 8 | Physical and Chemical Changes | Students can observe and compare physical and chemical changes and analyze how these changes are affected by temperature. | 5.PS1.1 5.PS1.2 |
Unit 1.5 TE99b | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 9 | Properties of Matter Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 10 | Forces and Motion | Investigating Forces | Students can investigate forces and can engage in argument about force based on the evidence of gravity. | 5.PS2.1 |
Unit 2.1 TE99e | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 11 | Changes in Forces | Students can investigate and construct an argument concerning forces, change of motion, and masses. | 4.PS3.3 |
Unit 2.2 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 12 | Constructing and Argument | Students can use math to add forces and can engage in an argument from evidence that a body will not start moving if the forces acting on it are balanced. | 4.PS3.3 |
Unit 2.3 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 13 | Shadows | Students can investigate how shadows form and can communicate the results of their investigation. | 5.ESS1.2 |
Unit 2.4 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 14 | Forces and Motion Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 15 | Growth and Survival | Plant and Animal Structures | Students can compare and contrast the structures and functions of parts of plants and animals. | 4.LS1.1 |
Unit 3.1 | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 16 | Plant Adaptations | Students can construct an argument based on evidence that plants can survive in different environments because of adaptations. | 3.LS4.3 |
Unit 3.2 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 17 | Animal Adaptations | Students can construct an argument based on evidence that animals can survive in different environments because of adaptations. | 3.LS4.3 |
Unit 3.3 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 18 | Modeling Adaptation | Students can model the life cycles of some animals and investigate how some animals go through metamorphosis. | 3LS1.1 |
Unit 3.4 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 19 | Growth and Survival Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 20 | Ecosystems | Plants and the Sun | Students can analyze and interpret data that supports that plants use energy from the sun. | 5.PS3.1 5LS1.1 |
Unit 4.1 TE195b | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 21 | Organisms and Ecosystems | Students can develop and use models that show the different ways that organisms interact in an ecosystem. | 5.PS3.1 5LS2.1 |
Unit 4.2 TE195a | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 22 | Changing Ecosystems | Students can investigate how ecosystems change and how animals and plants adapt to survive. | 5LS2.1 |
Unit 4.3 TE195c | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 23 | Human Impact on Ecosystems | Students can define a problem relating to human impact on ecosystems and its consequences. | 5.ESS3.1 |
Unit 4.4 TE195d | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 24 | Ecosystems Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 25 | Water Cycle and Weather | Water Cycle | Students can model how water changes states in the water cycle. | 5.ESS2.1 |
Unit 5.1 | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 26 | Earth’s Spheres | Students can analyze data to investigate what makes up each of Earth’s spheres. | 5.ESS2.1 5.ESS2.2 |
Unit 5.2 TE313b | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 27 | Determining Weather | Students can analyze data and use evidence to identify the factors that determine weather. | 5.ESS2.1 |
Unit 5.3 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 28 | Precipitation | Students can classify precipitation and identify the relationship between precipitation and other weather conditions. | 5.ESS2.1 |
Unit 5.4 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 29 | Climate Characteristics | Students can provide evidence to support that different climate zone have specific characteristics. | 3.ESS2.2 |
Unit 5.5 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 30 | Erosion and Deposition | Students can construct an evidence-based argument that erosion and deposition can change Earth’s surface. | 5.ESS2.1 |
Unit 5.6 TE313a | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 31 | Water Cycle and Weather Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 32 | Earth and Space | Earth and Space | Students can model how Earth rotates and revolves. Students can also use observation and evidence to communicate why the sun, moon, and stars appear to move across the sky. | 5.ESS1.2 |
Unit 6.1 TE313d | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 33 | Earth and Space | Students can analyze the sun’s physical characteristics and can analyze the importance of stars. | 5.ESS1.1 |
Unit 6.2 TE313c | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 34 | Earth and Space | Students can use models to identify planets and their positions. | 5.ESS1.2 |
Unit 6.3 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 35 | Earth and Space | Students can compare and contrast the characteristics of the outer planets and inner planets. | 5.ESS1.2 |
Unit 6.4 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 36 | Earth and Space | Students can investigate the differences between moons, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites. | 5.ESS1.2 |
Unit 6.5 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 37 | Earth and Space Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 38 | Fifth Grade Science Review | Review | Students can review key concepts and content from Grade 5 science. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources |