Science

Fifth grade science units:

• Web of Life (composting, food webs, ecosystems, producers, consumers, decomposers)

• Watery Planet (water cycle, frozen vs. freshwater)

• Spaceship Earth (Earth's relationship to the Sun and Moon, including Earth's rotation/revolution, gravity, why we have day and night, shadows, and changes in the apparent position of the Sun, Moon, and stars)

• Chemical Magic (Develop the concepts of “substances” and “chemical reactions”.  Students see that chemical reactions enable us to make new materials by transforming the ones we have.) 

• Engineering & Computer Science