Fifth Grade

from sun to food

8 Lessons | 32-35 Days of Instruction

At the start of this unit, students discuss their favorite pizza toppings and watch a video to start to consider why we eat food and ask questions about how a pizza farm works to grow the ingredients on pizza. Throughout the unit, students will conduct investigations and collect evidence about how energy and matter enter into food and how they cycle and move through the environment and living things. Students will develop a model of a pizza farm by adding the new layers of how energy and matter move through it along the way.

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MATERIALS FOR 1 CLASS | $275

Using our Resources wisely

9 Lessons | 23 Days of Instruction

In this unit, students explore how their community is connected to Earth’s systems and how those systems interact, with a focus on the role of water and natural resources. They investigate how everyday human activities use Earth’s resources and analyze how this consumption impacts the environment. Building on this understanding, students examine renewable energy and other strategies to reduce harmful effects on Earth’s systems. The unit culminates in students designing, testing, and communicating solutions that help communities use resources more responsibly.

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MATERIALS FOR 1 CLASS | $275

celestial clocks and calendars

8 Lessons | 32-34 Days of Instruction

For centuries humans have observed objects in the sky. Students investigate the objects we can observe in the sky, including the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars. They learn about how some of these objects create their own light, like stars, while others reflect light, like the Moon and planets. Students also construct arguments about the apparent brightness of stars.

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MATERIALS FOR 1 CLASS | $275

UNIT DESCRIPTION

7 Lessons | 27 Days of Instruction

Students are invited to participate in a community picnic. They will apply science ideas to make a cake, lemonade, and a meal for the picnic. Throughout the unit, students will investigate properties of matter, physical and chemical changes, the particle nature of matter, and different types of mixtures to explain how we use science in cooking and baking. They will apply their learning to plan a meal for a community picnic.

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MATERIALS FOR 1 CLASS | $275