Transcript: Grade 5 Science (2 of 2) Course Introduction

Course Objectives:

• Use a model to show change of matter and energy between plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
• Compare organs and other physical parts of plants and animals, including the human body.
• Observe how organisms interact with living and nonliving parts of their ecosystem to live and survive.
• Use proof to explain how something acts and where something lives can make inherited characteristics work differently.
• Tell about parts that are the same and things that are different between weather and climate.
• Make a model telling ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere work together.
• Study data to explain patterns of Earth’s features.
• Explain what changes weathering and erosion can have on the geosphere.
• Explain how well solutions to help protect Earth's environment and resources work.
• Explain how Earth’s raw materials are useful for the human-made world.
• Use proof and models to explain how the Earth and Moon move within our solar system.
• Put data in a graph to show patterns of how things change.

Click the link to read the Student Resource Guide. This guide tells more about what the course is like. Your school might have other rules for the course. Ask your teacher.

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