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Core Ideas for Knowing Science
Core Ideas for Knowing Science
Earth and Space Science
E1: The composition of the Earth and its atmosphere and the natural and human processes occurring within them shape the Earth’s surface and its climate.
U1: Scientists explain phenomena using evidence obtained from observations and or scientific investigations. Evidence may lead to developing models and or theories to make sense of phenomena. As new evidence is discovered, models and theories can be revised.
Fifth Grade: Patterns; Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
Fifth Grade: Patterns; Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
Earth and Space Sciences: Students develop an understanding of the how forces (gravity) in space cause observable patterns due to the position of the Earth, Sun, Moon, and stars.
Earth and Space Standards
5.E2U1.7. Develop, revise, and use models based on evidence to construct explanations about the movement of the Earth and Moon within our solar system.
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5.E2U1.8. Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence to support an explanation that the gravitational force of Earth on objects is directed toward the planet’s center.
Life Sciences: Students develop an understanding of patterns and how genetic information is passed from generation to generation. They also develop the understanding of how genetic information and environmental features impact the survival of an organism.
Life Science Standards
5.L3U1.10. Construct an explanation based on evidence that the changes in an environment can affect the development of the traits in a population of organisms.
5.L3U1.9. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about patterns between the offspring of plants, and the offspring of animals (including humans); construct an explanation of how genetic information is passed from one generation to the next.
5.L4U3.12. Construct an argument based on evidence that inherited characteristics can be affected by behavior and/or environmental conditions.
Physical Sciences: Students develop an understanding that changes can occur to matter/objects on Earth or in space, but both energy and matter follow the pattern of being conserved during those changes.
Physical Science Standards
5.P1U1.1. Analyze and interpret data to explain that matter of any type can be subdivided into particles too small to see and, in a closed system, if properties change or chemical reactions occur, the amount of matter stays the same.
5.P1U1.2. Plan and carry out investigations to demonstrate that some substances combine to form new substances with different properties and others can be mixed without taking on new properties.