5TH GRADE SCIENCE
In fifth grade mathematics scholars will work with hands on manipulatives to develop and strengthen the following skills:
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Students will demonstrate fluency with multiplication and division facts with factors up to 12.
- Place value, decimals, and numerical relationships.
- Patterns and algebraic reasoning
- Add and subtract fractions and decimals
- Customary and metric measurement
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2D and 3D geometric figures
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Data Analysis
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Fraction, decimal, and percent relationships
5TH GRADE SCIENCE
5th Grade Science serves as a hands-on introduction to the scientific method and fosters active involvement through beginning laboratory experiments and demonstrations. Sixth Grade Science scholars participate in “Modules,” which are composed of hands-on, scholar-centered, project-based activities. These modules provide multiple opportunities for scholars to observe, analyze and carry out the process of the scientific method and engineering design process. PITSCO labs serve as a means of innovative, self-paced inquiry and interactive discovery. Topics for lab experiences included:
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Develop an understanding that regardless of how matter changes form, its weight does not change.
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Determine if the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
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Create a model to describe how the geosphere (Earth’s surface), biosphere (living organisms), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere interact with one another.
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Describe and graph data to show how water is distributed on Earth.
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Develop a model to describe how matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
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Understand why and how plants get most of the materials they need to grow from air and water.
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Use models to describe how energy in animals’ food was once energy from the sun.
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Develop an understanding of daily patterns of change in the length and direction of shadows, the amount of daylight and darkness, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.
