Grade 5 Science
7 units matched to the Manitoba Curriculum.
Learning focus
- How do chemical and physical systems work?
- How do weather and climate systems work?
- How do life systems work?
Units
Unit 1
Cells: The Basic Unit of Life
Cells as the basic unit of life, what living cells need, why cells divide, specialized cells in multicellular organisms, and how organ systems work together.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.13, SCI.5.E.14, SCI.5.E.15, SCI.5.E.16, SCI.5.E.17 · cells, their needs and division, specialized cells, and organ systems
Unit 2
Digestion & Breathing
How food travels through the digestive system and air through the respiratory system, plus reading a breathing-rate table.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.17 · how the digestive and respiratory systems help keep the body healthy
Unit 3
Heart, Bones & Muscles
The heart and blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and tendons, how body systems work together, and heart-rate data.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.17 · how the circulatory and musculoskeletal systems work with other organ systems
Unit 4
Forces, Friction and Machines
Forces as pushes, pulls and twists, how friction affects motion, and how friction makes simple machines less efficient.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.5, SCI.5.E.6, SCI.5.E.8 · forces, the effects of friction on motion, and friction in machines
Unit 5
Simple Machines
The six simple machines, how machines trade force for distance, compound machines, and reading data from a ramp experiment.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.7 · how simple machines change the size and direction of a force
Unit 6
Weather and the Water Cycle
How the Sun, air, water and land interact to cause daily weather, the water cycle, tools for measuring weather, and why long-term forecasting is hard.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.9, SCI.5.E.10, SCI.5.E.11 · daily weather, the water cycle and weather prediction
Unit 7
Climate
Climate as long-term weather patterns, what shapes a region's climate, and the ways human activity and the natural world affect it.
Learning outcome: SCI.5.E.12, SCI.5.D.7 · climate as long-term weather patterns, and the effect of human activity
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