SCI.5.1.1.D.a Classify matter as a solid, a liquid, or a gas, as it exists at room temperature, using physical properties (i.e., volume, shape, ability to flow)
SCI.5.1.1.D.b Predict the effect of heat (thermal energy) on the physical properties of water as it changes to and from a solid, liquid, or gas (i.e., freezes/melts, evaporates/condenses/boils)
- SKILL: Thermal energy, temperature, and mass
- SKILL: Predict heat flow and temperature change
- SKILL: Heating, cooling, and changes of state
- SKILL: Change-of-state diagrams: melting, freezing, vaporizing, condensing, and sublimating
- SKILL: Change-of-state diagrams: melting, freezing, vaporizing, and condensing
SCI.5.3.1.D.a. Compare structures (e.g., wings vs. fins vs. legs; gills vs. lungs; feathers vs. hair vs. scales) that serve similar functions for animals belonging to different vertebrate classes
- SKILL: Adaptations in animals: beaks, mouths, and necks
- SKILL: Adaptations in animals: feet and limbs
- SKILL: Adaptations in animals: skins and body coverings
SCI.5.3.1.E.a. Explain how similarities are the basis for classification
- SKILL: Identify mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians
- SKILL: Identify vertebrates and invertebrates
- SKILL: Use evidence to classify mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles
- SKILL: Use evidence to classify animals
- SKILL: Describe, classify, and compare kingdoms
SCI.5.3.1.E.c. Classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates
SCI.5.3.1.E.d. Classify vertebrate animals into classes (amphibians, birds, reptiles, mammals, fish) based on their characteristics
- SKILL: Identify mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians
- SKILL: Use evidence to classify mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles
- SKILL: Use evidence to classify animals
SCI.5.3.2.C.a Compare the major organs/organ systems (e.g., support, reproductive, digestive, transport/circulatory, excretory, response) that perform similar functions for animals belonging to different vertebrate classes
- SKILL: Circulation and respiration
- SKILL: Digestion
- SKILL: Removing waste
- SKILL: Perception and motion
SCI.5.5.1.B.a Classify major bodies of surface water (e.g., rivers, lakes, oceans, glaciers) as fresh or salt water, flowing or stationary, large or small, solid or liquid, surface or groundwater
- SKILL: Water on Earth
SCI.5.5.2.F.a Identify and use appropriate tools (i.e., thermometer, anemometer, wind vane, rain gauge, satellite images, weather maps) to collect weather data (i.e., temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, cloud type and cover.)
SCI.5.5.2.F.b Identify and summarize relationships between weather data (e.g., temperature and time of day, cloud cover and temperature, wind direction and temperature) collected over a period of time
SCI.5.7.1.B.a. Make qualitative observations using the five senses
- SKILL: Properties of objects
- SKILL: Compare properties of materials
- SKILL: Identify and sort solids, liquids, and gases
- SKILL: Compare properties of objects
SCI.5.7.1.B.c. Use a variety of tools and equipment to gather data (e.g., hand lenses, magnets, thermometers, metric rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, spring scales)
SCI.5.7.1.B.d Measure length to the nearest centimeter, mass to the nearest gram, volume to the nearest milliliter, temperature to the nearest degree Celsius, force/weight to the nearest Newton
- SKILL: Collect and graph temperature data
SCI.5.7.1.B.e Compare amounts/measurements
- SKILL: Compare temperatures
SCI.5.7.1.C.a Use quantitative and qualitative data as support for reasonable explanations
- SKILL: Use evidence to classify mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles
- SKILL: Use evidence to classify animals
- SKILL: Inherited and acquired traits: use evidence to support a statement
- SKILL: Interpret evidence from fossils in rock layers
- SKILL: Weather and climate: cite evidence
- SKILL: Use climate data to make predictions
- SKILL: Use data to describe climates
SCI.5.7.1.C.b Use data as support for observed patterns and relationships, and to make predictions to be tested
SCI.5.7.1.C.d Analyze whether evidence supports proposed explanations
- SKILL: Inherited and acquired traits: use evidence to support a statement
- SKILL: Interpret evidence from fossils in rock layers
SCI.5.7.1.D.a Communicate the procedures and results of investigations and explanations through:
- oral presentations
- drawings and maps
- data tables
- graphs (bar, single line, pictograph)
- writings