Fifth Grade
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Unit 5: Earth Systems Interactions
Key Essential Questions:
How do the different Earth systems interact and affect one another?
How can communities use Science to protect Earth’s resources and environment?
Transfer Goals - Students will be able to use their learning to:
Describe a system in terms of its components and interactions to illustrate the relationships between the Earth’s geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Develop a model to represent events and design solutions related to interactions in Earth’s systems.
March 16 - 20
Earth System Interactions - "How do different Earth systems interact and affect on another?"
This is a new unit for us so before taking a look at the Mystery Science lesson you'll want to watch the Crash Course Videos to learn about the four systems on Earth. They are biosphere (life), hydrosphere (water), atmosphere (air) and geosphere (land).
Next Generation Science Standard: 5-ESS2-1. Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
March 23 - 27
Engineering Design Challenge
With last week's lesson, you learned about the four systems on Earth. This week you'll begin to understand how these systems all interact. Illustrate a stream and use items from around the house or from outside to build a barrier like a beaver to illustrate how animals (biosphere) interact and change the land (geosphere) and water systems (hydrosphere). Click on the link below for more information.
Next Generation Science Standard: 5-ESS2-1. Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
March 30 - April 3
Take this week to catch up on your lessons and make sure you check out the links to the Mystery Science Mini-Lessons. Mystery Doug is waiting for you! Don't forget to stay curious over spring break!
April 17 - Unified Arts Enrichment Friday
April 24 - Unified Arts Enrichment Friday
May 1 - Unified Arts Enrichment Friday
May 4 - 13
Unit 6: Observable Patterns in the Earth, Sun, and Moon System
Key Essential Questions:
● Do objects fall down regardless of location on Earth?
● Why are some stars brighter than others?
● Why do objects visible in the sky appear different throughout the year?
Transfer Goals - Students will be able to use their learning to:
● Use cause and effect patterns and relationships to support an argument that Earth’s gravitational force on an object is directed downward.
● Support an argument with evidence, data, or models that Earth’s gravity pulls an object toward the center of the Earth.
● Support an argument with evidence, data, or models that the apparent brightness of the Sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.
● Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns and relationships between the Earth’s seasons and the visibility or appearance of certain stars or shadows depending upon the time of year.
Gravity
Vocabulary Review:
Mass is the amount of matter in a given volume of something. Volume is the amount of space that an object or substance takes up. For example, the mass of a bag of fluffy marshmallows is the same before -- and after -- a stampede of elephants changes its volume by squishing it to the size of a bar of soap. An object's mass is what determines how much force is needed to move, speed up, or slow down the object. The greater the object's mass, the more force it takes to change its motion.
Gravity is the force that exists between any two objects that have mass. Weight is a measure of the force of gravity pulling on an object. Some people think that the mass of an object and its weight are one and the same, probably because we weigh things to determine their mass. But weight and mass are not the same. How much something weighs depends on how strongly gravity is pulling on it. So something will weigh less where the gravitational force on it is weaker (as on the Moon or in space, for example), even though its mass has not changed.
Next Generation Science Standard: 5-PS2-1. Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Stars
Prior Knowledge review:
The Earth moves in two ways. Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun. Not only do the stars appear to move across the sky in one evening due to Earth’s rotation on its axis, they also appear in different locations during different times of the year. If you observe the night sky at the same time each day, the stars will appear to move westward across the sky over time. Eventually, some stars will slip from view beyond the western horizon. This is due to the revolution of Earth around the Sun. Constellations are groups of stars that form a recognizable pattern in the night sky. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.
