FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE
AMBER WEBER & MADISON SPARTA
Basic Fifth Grade Standards
- compares and classifies the states of matter
- measures and graphs the effects of temperature on matter
- investigates and explains how simple machines multiply force at the expense of distance
- understands the difference between potential and kinetic energy
- observes and communicates how light energy interacts with matter
- recognizes that all populations living together and the physical factors with which they interact compose an ecosystem
- understands how limiting factors determine the carrying capacity of an ecosystem
- traces the energy flow from the sun to producers to consumers and decomposes in food webs
- compares and contrasts the characteristics of stars, planets, moons, comets, and asteroids
- models spatial relationships of the earth/moon/planets/sun/system to scale
- identifies past and present methods used to explore space