5-Science

5th Grade — Science

Units Themes

• Metric measurement
• Introduction to chemistry
• Circuits and electricity
• Engineering and design projects
• Programming and the Hour of Code
• Introduction to human body systems
• Health: human development
• Environmental detectives
• Watersheds and systems thinking
• Ecosystem (interdisciplinary)

Project Highlights

• Element and molecule design
• Electrolysis of water
• Edible batteries
• Scribble machines
• Creating body system models
• Design an ecosystem

Approaches to Learning

• Cause and effect, self discovery, project-based labs, critical thinking and problem solving, investigations, collaboration, evidence-based argumentation.