Grade 5 Science
7 units matched to the Nova Scotia Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Earth and Space Science: Weather. Learners will investigate weather.
- Earth and Space Science: Weather. Learners will investigate how weather impacts daily life.
- Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines. Learners will construct effective simple and compound machines.
- Life Science: Healthy Body. Learners will analyse how the body functions to meet its needs.
- Physical Science: Chemical and Physical Properties. Learners will test how physical and chemical changes affect the properties of matter.
Units
Unit 1
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: Earth and Space Science: Weather · weather and the water cycle
Unit 2
Forces, Friction and Machines
Forces as pushes, pulls and twists, how friction affects motion, and how friction makes simple machines less efficient.
Learning outcome: Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines · forces, friction and machines
Unit 3
Simple Machines
The six simple machines, how machines trade force for distance, compound machines, and reading data from a ramp experiment.
Learning outcome: Physical Science: Forces and Simple Machines · how simple machines change the size and direction of a force
Unit 4
Digestion & Breathing
How food travels through the digestive system and air through the respiratory system, plus reading a breathing-rate table.
Learning outcome: Life Science: Healthy Body · how the digestive and respiratory systems work
Unit 5
Heart, Bones & Muscles
The heart and blood vessels, bones, joints, muscles and tendons, how body systems work together, and heart-rate data.
Learning outcome: Life Science: Healthy Body · how the circulatory and musculoskeletal systems work
Unit 6
Changes of State
Melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation at home and outdoors, and how matter absorbs or releases thermal energy when it changes state.
Learning outcome: Physical Science: Chemical and Physical Properties · changes of state
Unit 7
Physical or Chemical?
Telling a physical change from a chemical change, spotting the signs of a new substance, and how making and throwing away everyday products affects the environment.
Learning outcome: Physical Science: Chemical and Physical Properties · physical and chemical changes
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