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5th Six Weeks Learning Targets
(February 25-April 12)
MATH
Big Idea:
- Investigate angle measurements using parts of circles, protractors, and finding unknown angles.
Students will determine the approximate measures of angles in degrees to the nearest whole number using a protractor.
Students will illustrate the measure of an angle as the part of a circle whose center is at the vertex of the angle that is “cut out” by the rays of the angle. Angle measures are limited to whole numbers.
Students will illustrate degrees as the units used to measure an angle, where 1/360 of any circle is 1 degree and an angle that “cuts” n/360 out of any circle whose center is at the angle’s vertex has a measure of n degrees. Angle measures are limited to whole numbers
Students will draw an angle with a given measure.
Students will determine the measure of an unknown angle formed by two non-overlapping adjacent angles given one or both angle measures.
Big Idea:
- Solve problems involving various units of measurement.
Students will solve problems related to perimeter and area of rectangles where dimensions are whole numbers.
Students will solve problems that deal with measurements of length, intervals of time, liquid volumes, mass, and money using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division as appropriate.
Students will use models to determine the formulas for the perimeter of a rectangle (l+w+l+w or 2l+2w), including the special form for perimeter of a square (4s) and the area of a rectangle (l x w).
Students will identify relative sizes of measurement units within the customary and metric systems.
Students will convert measurements within the same measurement system, customary or metric, from a smaller unit into a larger unit or a larger unit into a smaller unit when given other equivalent measures represented in a table.
SCIENCE
Big Idea:
- Movement of Earth, the sun, and the moon cause recognizable patterns.
Students will collect and analyze data to identify sequences and predict patterns of change in shadows, tides, seasons, and the observable appearance of the Moon over time .
Big Idea:
- Organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environments.
Students will describe the flow of energy through food webs, beginning with the Sun, and predict how changes in the ecosystem affect the food web.
Students will investigate that most producers need sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food, while consumers are dependent on other organisms for food.