Science – 5th Grade
Materials:
Objectives:
All students will meet the standards listed in the Agriculture Unit, Pest Management Unit, Rock Cycle Unit, Water Cycle Unit, Meteorology Unit,
and in the Matter Unit.
Essential Questions:
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What is the relationship between plant production and animal production?
What is the economic importance of agriculture?
How does soil type and geographic region affect agriculture?
What is the importance of the Food and Fiber system in the U.S.?
What are benefits and harmful effects of pests on humans and the surrounding environments?
Are volcanoes constructive or destructive natural processes that form different geologic structures?
What two factors contribute to the formation of rocks?
What is the difference between physical & chemical weathering?
How does soil fertility, composition, resistance to erosion, and texture determine its land use?
What are the basic components of the water cycle?
What’s the difference between water systems on Earth; wetland, watershed, ocean, river?
How do the oceans form one interconnected circulation system? What gives the ocean that power?
What are the differences and similarities between weather and climate?
What factors affect climate?
How does the curvature of the Earth contribute to climate?
What factor must be added/subtracted to allow water to be a solid, liquid, or gas?
What’s the difference between an element, a compound, and a mixture?
Why is a physical change different than a chemical change of matter?
What are common characteristics of elements on the periodic table?
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Science – 5th Grade
Title: AGRICULTURE
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
4.4.5.A
4.4.5.C
4.4.6.A
Relation of:
 Plant production
 Animal production
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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4.4.7.B
Agriculture’s importance
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4.4.6.B
4.4.7.A
Impacts of agriculture:
 Soil type
 Geographic region
 Technology
Relation of:
 Agriculture
 Environment
 Natural resources
Importance of the Food and Fiber system
in the U.S.
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4.4.7.D
4.4.7.C
4.4.8.A
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Activities/Assessments
Explain why animal production is reliant on plant
production.
Investigate the factors influencing plant and animal
growth.
Explain how the soil conditions and climate affect
different plants and animals.
Describe the economic importance of agriculture to
society.
Analyze how soil types and geographic regions
have impacted agriculture in Pennsylvania.
Determine the positive and negative effects of
technology used in agriculture.
Describe how the agricultural practices, the
environment, and natural resources are related.
Identify and describe how food safety issues have
impacted the food and fiber system.
Investigate resources, their relation to land use,
and their impact on the food and fiber system.
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Science – 5th Grade
Title: PEST MANAGEMENT
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
4.5.7.B
Pest Management
 Practice(s)
 Effect(s) on humans and the
surrounding environment.
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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Activities/Assessments
Identify benefits and harmful effects of pests.
Determine the effects to humans and the
surrounding environment for the different types
of pest?
Know some practices used to manage pests.
Identify the long term effects of integrating pest
management practice.
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Science – 5th Grade
Title: ROCK CYCLE
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
3.3.5.A1
3.3.8.A3
Geologic features
 Formation
 Cycle of Earth’s matter is recycled
throughout the geologic processes
over time.
Mapping representations of Earth’s
common geologic features
 Valley
 Cannon
 Mountain
 Volcano
 Island
Rock Cycle’s cycle
3.3.6.A1
3.3.7.A1
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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3.3.8.A1
3.3.6.A2
Type of weathering
 Physical
 Chemical is determined by climate
factors.
How soil’s factors:
 Fertility
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Activities/Assessments
Describe constructive and destructive natural
processes that form different geologic structures
and resources.
Describe characteristic features of Earth’s water
systems and their impact on resources.
Describe how constructive and destructive natural
processes can influence different biomes.
Review the layers of the Earth and the importance
of each layer.
Identify the result of heat and pressure when
creating rocks different rock types.
Identify the three basic rock types and describe
their formation (i.e., igneous [granite, basalt,
obsidian, and pumice]; sedimentary [limestone,
sandstone, shale, and coal]; and metamorphic
[slate, quartzite, marble, and gneiss]).
Identify different types of weathering; physical &
chemical.
Recognize climate factors that determine what
type of weathering will occur.
Recognize factors that affect soil fertility.
Identify how soil type determines its use.
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Science – 5th Grade
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Composition
Resistance to erosion, and
Texture determine its land use.
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Determine all rock types’ resistance to erosion.
Title: WATER CYCLE
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
3.3.5.A4
3.3.6.A4
Basic components of the Water Cycle:
 Forms; evaporation, condensation,
precipitation
 Locations; underground,
atmosphere
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Describe the water cycle and the physical processes
on which it depends (i.e., evaporation,
condensation, precipitation).
3.3.7.A4
Earth’s water systems:
 Wetlands, fresh water
 Rivers, fresh water
 Watershed, fresh water
 Ocean, salt water
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Compare the different water systems on Earth
(e.g., wetland, watershed, ocean, and river).
Compare biotic and abiotic features of freshwater
and saltwater systems.
Describe the importance of water systems on the
diversity and distribution of life on Earth.
Oceans’ power:
 Wind
 Tides
 Earth’s rotation
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3.3.8.A4
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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Activities/Assessments
Identify the parts of the oceans’ power (wind, tides,
rotation).
Describe wind currents (polar easterlies, polar
front, westerlies, trade winds, horse latitude,
doldrums)
Describe the motions of tides, and identify their
causes.
Explain Earth’s rotation.
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Science – 5th Grade
Title: METEROLOGY
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
3.3.5.A5
Difference and Similarities:
 Weather
 Climate
Factors which effect Climate:
 Atmosphere
 Oceans’ current
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Recognize that the water cycle, in & out of the
atmosphere, affects climate.
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Basic elements of Meteorology:
 Sun’s energy
 Curvature of the Earth
 Water Cycle
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Describe the layers, and energy scales involved, of
the Earth’s atmosphere.
Identify factors which effect local weather
(temperature, precipitation, wind speed).
o Jet stream
o Water currents
Explain how the curvature of the Earth contributes
to climate.
Identify factors which effect weather
(temperature, precipitation, wind speed).
Compare and contrast water vapor, humidity, and
clouds.
3.3.6.A5
3.3.6.A6
3.3.8.A6
3.3.7.A5
3.3.8.A5
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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Activities/Assessments
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Science – 5th Grade
Title: MATTER
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
3.2.5.A1
3.2.6.A1
States and properties of matter:
 Solid
 Liquid
 Gas
3.2.7.A1
3.2.7.A2
3.2.6.A2
3.2.6.A4
3.2.8.A2
Structures of matter:
 Elements-Atoms
 Compounds
 Mixture
Difference between changes:
 Physical
 Chemical
Characteristics of elements on the
Periodic table:
 Protons
 Neutrons
 Electrons
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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Activities/Assessments
Identify water can be all states of matter by
adding/subtracting heat.
Distinguish the differences in properties of a solid,
liquid, gas.
Differentiate between mass & volume of matter.
Differentiate between elements, compounds, and
mixtures.
Compare and contrast pure substances with
physical and chemical mixtures.
Describe the difference between a physical and a
chemical change of matter.
Identify characteristics of elements on the periodic
table.
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