Science
Course: 5th Grade
Unit: Cycles/Adaptations /Ecosystems /Food Chains/ Inherited Traits
/Learned Behavior
TEKS/Prerequisites
Guiding Questions/Specificity
Assessment
Designated Unit: 5th Instructional Period
Days to teach: 27 days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Resources/
Weblinks
5.9 & 5.10 Organisms and Environment:
The student knows that there are relationships, systems and cycles within environments.
The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environment.
5.9A-observe the way
adaptation
Guided Questions:
Examples of
MISD Teacher Resources:
Sample Assessment
organisms live and survive in -Can you recognize the survival
camouflage
Instructional
Google Drive:
Questions:
their ecosystem by
characteristics in any animal or plant?
mimicry
MISD Science
Strategies:
interacting with the living
biomes
Journals
1.Draw and label a
and non-living elements
-What do plants and animals that live
habitat
Cooperative learning
STEMscopes:
food chain that you
in the same biome have in common?
interact
Discovery Learning
(Readiness)
Accelerate Learning Link
would see in the
organism
Graphic Organizers
Explore Lab and Journal
Tundra.
5.9C- predict the effects of
-What is the source of energy that
drought
KWL Chart
changes in ecosystems
caused by living organisms,
including humans, such as
the overpopulation of grazers
or building of highways
(Supporting)
5.10A – Compare the
structures and functions of
different species that help
them live and survive such as
hooves on prairie animals or
webbed feet in aquatic
animals (Readiness)
5.9B- describe how the flow
of energy derived from the
sun, used by producers to
create their own food, is
transferred through a food
chain and food web to
consumers and decomposers
drives the food chain?
-If one organism is taken out of a food
chain, how does it affect the other
organisms?
Teacher notes:
*4.9 (A) investigate that most
producers need sunlight, water, and
carbon dioxide to make their own
food, while consumers are dependent
on other organisms for food
*4.9 (B) describe the flow of energy
through food webs, beginning with
the Sun, and predict how changes in
the ecosystem affect the food web
such as a fire in a fore
*3.10 (A) explore how structures and
functions of plants and animals allow
them to survive in a particular
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2.Facts about
Duckweed:
Small plant that
grows in water.
Birds depend on it
for food.
Name a human
activity would most
likely cause an
overgrowth of
duckweed in a pond
environment.
overpopulation
migration
grazers
niche
producer
consumer
omnivore
carnivore
herbivore
decomposer
predator
prey
scavenger
food chain
food web
Scaffolding
Link to ELPS
Instructional
Strategies:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.u
s/rules/tac/chapter074/c
h074a.html
4F – Graphic
Organizers,
Visual/Videos, and
Manipulatives (soil)
3H- Accountable
conversation stems
1C – Word Wall, Word
Sort
2H – Book Review
2D - KWL
Teacher Notes
Content Resources
Reading/Science A-Z
Link
Trees
http://www.realtrees4kids.or
g/index.htm
Biomes
http://www.thewildclassroom
.com/biomes/wetlands.html
www.mbgnet.net
Safari Montage:
Bill Nye Food Web
Bill Nye Ocean Life
Bill Nye Wetlands
Bill Nye Animal Locomotion
Bill Nye Populations
*Bill Nye is also on Netflix
Science
Course: 5th Grade
Unit: Cycles/Adaptations /Ecosystems /Food Chains/ Inherited Traits
/Learned Behavior
TEKS/Prerequisites
Guiding Questions/Specificity
Assessment
(Readiness)
Designated Unit: 5th Instructional Period
Days to teach: 27 days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Resources/
Weblinks
environment
*4.10 (A) explore how adaptations
enable organisms to survive in their
environment such as comparing birds'
beaks and leaves on plants
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Magic School Bus
Meets the Rot Squad
11
Science
Course: 5th Grade
Unit: Cycles/Adaptations /Ecosystems /Food Chains/ Inherited Traits
/Learned Behavior
TEKS/Prerequisites
Guiding Questions/Specificity
Assessment
Designated Six Weeks: 5th Six Weeks
Days to teach: 28 days
5.10B-differentiate between
inherited traits of plants and
animals such as spines on a
cactus or shape of a beak and
learned behaviors such as an
animal learning a trick or a
child riding a bicycle
(Readiness)
learned
characteristic/ behavior
traits
inherited
offspring
instinct
gene
DNA
acquired
Specificity:
-Inherited traits are characteristics that
an organism is born with
-Inherited traits can be seen in both
plants and animals
-Inherited traits are passed down from
parent to offspring
-Learned behaviors can be found in
animals
-A learned behavior is anything that
an animal learns throughout their lives
-Learned behaviors often make it
easier to find food, shelter and survive
Teacher Notes:
Review the following TEKS from
previous grade levels
*3.10 (B) explore that some
characteristics of organisms are
inherited such as the number of limbs
on an animal or flower color and
recognize that some behaviors are
learned in response to living in a
certain environment such as animals
using tools to get food
*4.10 (B) demonstrate that some
likenesses between parents and
offspring are inherited, passed from
generation to generation such as eye
color in humans or shapes of leaves in
plants.
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1.Which of the
following
characteristics of a
field mouse is most
likely inherited from
its parents?
a. Brown fur
b.
Torn ear
c.
Scar on its leg
d.
Chipped tooth
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Examples of
Instructional
Strategies:
Journals
Cooperative learning
Discovery Learning
Graphic Organizers
KWL Chart
Scaffolding
Link to ELPS
Instructional
Strategies:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.u
s/rules/tac/chapter074/c
h074a.html
4F – Graphic
Organizers,
Visual/Videos, and
Manipulatives (soil)
3H- Accountable
conversation stems
1C – Word Wall,
Word Sort
2H – Book Review
2D - KWL
Resources/
Weblinks
MISD Teacher resourcesGoogle Drive:
MISD Science
STEMscopes:
Accelerate Learning Link
Explore Lab and Journal
Teacher Notes
Content Resources
Reading/Science A-Z
Link
Discovery Education:
Animal Instincts
Safari Montage:
Animal Behavior and
Communication
Bill Nye Genes
*Bill Nye is also on Netflix
Science
Course: 5th Grade
Unit: Cycles/Adaptations /Ecosystems /Food Chains/ Inherited Traits
/Learned Behavior
TEKS/Prerequisites
Guiding Questions/Specificity
Assessment
Designated Six Weeks: 5th Six Weeks
Days to teach: 28 days
5.10C –describe the
differences between complete
and incomplete
metamorphosis of insects
(Supporting Standard)
Metamorphosis
(incomplete and
complete)
Germination
Pollination
Photosynthesis
Chlorophyll
Adaptation
Cycle
5.9D – identify the
significance of the carbon
dioxide-oxygen cycle to the
survival of plants and animals
(Supporting Standard)
Guided Questions:
-How do insects pollinate a flower?
Sample Assessment
Questions:
Teacher Notes:
Review
*3.10 (C) investigate and compare
how animals and plants undergo a
series of orderly changes in their
diverse life cycles such as tomato
plants, frogs, and lady bugs.
(Supporting Standard)
Which gas in the air
would increase if a
large number of trees
were cut down?
a. Carbon dioxide
*4.10 (C) explore, illustrate, and
compare life cycles in living
organisms such as butterflies, beetles,
radishes, or lima beans.
b.
Nitrogen
c.
Oxygen
d.
Water Vapor
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Examples of
Instructional
Strategies:
Journals
Cooperative learning
Discovery Learning
Graphic Organizers
KWL Chart
Scaffolding
Link to ELPS
Instructional
Strategies:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.u
s/rules/tac/chapter074/c
h074a.html
4F – Graphic
Organizers,
Visual/Videos, and
Manipulatives (soil)
3H- Accountable
conversation stems
1C – Word Wall,
Word Sort
2H – Book Review
2D - KWL
Resources/
Weblinks
MISD Teacher resourcesGoogle Drive:
MISD Science
STEMscopes:
Accelerate Learning Link
Explore Lab and Journal
Teacher Notes
Content Resources
Reading/Science A-Z
Link
Oxygen Cyclehttp://water.me.vccs.edu/con
cepts/oxycycle.html
Insect MetamorphosisTeacher SOLE Unit
Life Cyclehttp://teams.lacoe.edu/docum
entation/classrooms/judi/life/
activities/cycles/life_cycles.h
tml
Safari Montage:
Bill Nye Life Cycles
Bill Nye Plants
Bill Nye Insects
Bill Nye Flowers
Magic School Bus Gets
Planted
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