This Week:

Standard(s)

5.LS3.2 - Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents

and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms.

5.LS4.1 - Analyze and interpret data from fossils to describe types of organisms and their environments that

existed long ago. Compare similarities and differences of those to living organisms and their

environments. Recognize that most kinds of animals (and plants) that once lived on Earth are now extinct.

5.ETS1.1 - Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem.

5.ESS1.1 - Explain that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth.

5.ETS2.3 - Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.