Science
Science Goals:
Standards
Science engages students in enjoyable, active learning experiences. Science instruction should be as thrilling an experience for a child as seeing a rainbow, growing a flower, or holding a toad. The science curriculum allows students to experience the joy of doing science while learning both skills and concepts. In fifth grade, students will:
Science engages students in enjoyable, active learning experiences. Science instruction should be as thrilling an experience for a child as seeing a rainbow, growing a flower, or holding a toad. The science curriculum allows students to experience the joy of doing science while learning both skills and concepts. In fifth grade, students will:
- Apply scientific processes, communicate scientific ideas effectively and understand the nature of science.
- Understand the effects of volcanoes, earthquakes, weathering and erosion on the earth's surface.
- Observe magnetic forces between two magnets or between a magnet and materials made of iron.
- Understand features of static and current electricity.
- Understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment.
- Grades- Assignments will usually be graded using a point system of 0-3. 0 means the assignment wasn't done. 1 means the assignment wasn't finished and answers were not correct. 2 means the assignment was finished but 1/3 ish of the answers were not correct. 3 means that the assignment was finished and most of the answers were correct. Tests, projects, and quizzes will be percentage scores. CER Responses Essays are on a 4 point rubric.
Curriculum Overview
- August - October Chemistry
- November- December Earth Science
- January - February Electricity and Magnetism
- March - April Heredity