Grade 5 Science ILS Standards

Engineering Design

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Earth's Place in the Universe

Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

Earth's Systems

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

Earth and Human Activity

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Matter and Its Interactions

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Energy

Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

Algorithms: Compare and refine multiple algorithms for the same task and determine which is the most appropriate.

Variables: Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.

Control: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.

Modularity: Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.

Modularity: Modify, remix, or incorporate portions of an existing program into one's own work, to develop something new or add more advanced features.

Program Development : Use an iterative process to plan the development of a program by including others' perspectives and considering user preferences.

Program Development : Observe intellectual property rights and give appropriate attribution when creating or remixing programs.

Program Development: Test and debug (identify and fix errors) a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.

Program Development:  Take on varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development.

Program Development: Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations

Devices: Describe how internal and external parts of computing devices function to form a system.

Hardware and Software: Model how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks. Discuss task specific embedded systems.

Determine potential solutions to solve simple hardware and software problems using common troubleshooting strategies.

Collection, Visualization, and Transformation: Organize and present collected data visually to highlight relationships and support a claim.

Interference and Models:  Use data to highlight or propose cause-and-effect relationships, predict outcomes, or communicate an idea.

Explain that the field of emerging technologies will be evolving and rapidly growing

Compare existing and emerging technologies, ideas, and concepts.

Describe how emerging technologies are influencing current events at a local and global scale.

Predict the positive and negative societal, cultural, and economic impacts that emerging and future technologies may generate.

Create new or original work by applying emerging technologies.

Culture: Discuss computing technologies that have changed the world and express how those technologies influence, and are influenced by, cultural practices

Social Interactions : Seek diverse perspectives for the purpose of improving computational artifacts.

Culture: Brainstorm ways to improve the accessibility and usability of technology products for the diverse needs and wants of users

Safety Law and Ethics:   Use public domain or Creative Commons media and refrain from copying or using material created by others without permission.

Network Communication and Organization: Model how information is broken down into smaller pieces, transmitted as packets through multiple devices over networks and the internet, and reassembled at the destination.

Cybersecurity:  Discuss real-world cybersecurity problems and how personal information can be protected.

Networks and the Internet

Computing Systems

Data and Analysis

Impacts of Computing

Algorithms and Programming

Emerging and Future Technologies