What kids should learn in Science Physical Science and Technology The natural world was the focus of science study during the primary years of school. While nature studies continue during the intermediate years, physical science and technology come in for an increasing share of attention in the fifth grade. Children will work, for example, with "mystery powders," which are especially conducive to a wide range of scientific experiments.
The powders are of the kitchen variety -- flour, salt, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cream of tartar -- and can be observed in water that is heated, mixed, and so on. They will learn about and examine machines of all kinds, including computers and mass communication systems. They are often asked about "the role of technology in our lives. Fifth grade is not too early for children to talk about such ethical issues as the cost of prolonging life through advanced medical treatment, or the possible environmental damage caused by dams that provide drinking water to cities.
Flight and Space Exploration Flight and space exploration are commonly studied in the fifth grade. You can expect your child to make time lines of flight and space exploration, to build gliders and examine their aerodynamic properties, and to learn how flight is possible.
Meteorology, which is clearly connected to these subjects, is also important. Children gain a fairly sophisticated understanding of weather patterns, wind directions, temperature, precipitation, air pressure with high and low systems, and so on. They will be able to examine weather maps and follow weather reports on television. The intermediate years are a good time for classes to visit science museums, or for scientists and technologists to visit classrooms. They will begin to relate causes for changes with their effects.
Students will have opportunity to investigate the effects of various forces, such as magnetism and electricity upon materials. They will begin to learn how traits passed from parent organisms to their offspring effect their survival. Students should learn to value the scientific processes as means of obtaining knowledge. They should be encouraged to maintain an open and questioning mind and should be helped and encouraged to pose their own questions about objects, events, processes and results.
Fifth graders should have the opportunity to plan and conduct their own experiments and come to their own conclusions as they read, observe, compare, describe, infer and draw conclusions. Good science instruction requires hands-on science investigations in which student inquiry is an important goal. Teachers should provide opportunities for all students to explore many things. Fifth graders should have sufficient understanding of Earth Science to point out an interesting landform to others and hypothesize its origin; feel the success of connecting batteries and wire to make the lights come on; learn about chemical change as they mix baking soda and vinegar and test changes in acidity of liquids using the juice of red cabbage leaves.
They should come to enjoy science as a process of learning about their world. Science Core concepts should be integrated with concepts and skills from other curriculum areas. Reading, writing and mathematics skills should be emphasized as integral to the instruction of science.
Technology issues and the nature of science are significant components of this Core. Personal relevance of science in students' lives is always an important part of helping students to value science and should be emphasized at this grade level.
The fifth grade Science Core has online resources designed to help with classroom instruction; they include Teacher Resource Book -a set of lesson plans, assessment items and science information specific to fifth grade and Sci-ber Text -an electronic science textbook specific to the Utah Core. Teachers must adhere to the published guidelines for the proper use of animals, equipment, and chemicals in the classroom.
These guidelines are available on the Utah Science Home Page. The Intended Learning Outcomes ILOs describe the skills and attitudes students should learn as a result of science instruction. They are an essential part of the Science Core Curriculum and provide teachers with a standard for evaluation of student learning in science.
Instruction should include significant science experiences that lead to student understanding using the ILOs. The main intent of science instruction in Utah is that students will value and use science as a process of obtaining knowledge based upon observable evidence.
Standard 1 Students will understand that chemical and physical changes occur in matter. Objective 1 Describe that matter is neither created nor destroyed even though it may undergo change.
Objective 2 Evaluate evidence that indicates a physical change has occurred. Objective 3 Investigate evidence for changes in matter that occur during a chemical reaction.
Standard 2 Students will understand that volcanoes, earthquakes, uplift, weathering, and erosion reshape Earth's surface. Standard 3 Students will understand that magnetism can be observed when there is an interaction between the magnetic fields of magnets or between a magnet and materials made of iron.
Objective 1 Investigate and compare the behavior of magnetism using magnets. Objective 2 Describe how the magnetic field of Earth and a magnet are similar.
Standard 4 Students will understand features of static and current electricity. Objective 1 Describe the behavior of static electricity as observed in nature and everyday occurrences. Objective 2 Analyze the behavior of current electricity.
Standard 5 Students will understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment.
Objective 1 Using supporting evidence, show that traits are transferred from a parent organism to its offspring. Objective 2 Describe how some characteristics could give a species a survival advantage in a particular environment. P re K Education.
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They have spent many years in a classroom, from kindergarten and perhaps even preschool on through the grade they're in now. They are on the cusp of adolescence and looking ahead to middle school. Their maturity is showing in how they handle themselves emotionally and in terms of discipline and behavior, and they're handling increasingly challenging work at school as they tackle more difficult academic requirements in the classroom.
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