Grade 5 Science ILS Standards

History

Geography

Economics/ Financial Literacy

Civics

Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action

Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Inquiry

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.

Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details with relevant information and data.

Develop essential questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others.

Engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps that consider multiple viewpoints.

Students generate supporting questions that require investigation to help answer essential questions.

Identify varied resources that answer essential and student-generated questions and that take into consideration multiple points of view.

Gather relevant information and distinguish between fact and opinion to determine credibility of multiple sources.

Develop claims using evidence from multiple sources to answer essential questions.

Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources.

Present a summary of arguments and explanations to others inside and/or outside of the classroom using print and oral technologies.

Explain the use of inquiry strategies, approaches, and relevant sources that will allow students to address local, regional, state, national, and global problems.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of government officials at the local, state, and national levels and investigate how the roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government have changed over time.

Examine the origins and purposes of rules, laws, and key provisions of the U.S. Constitution and investigate the impact they had/have on multiple groups of people.

Compare and contrast the U.S. government to other global governments in their structure and systems of governing with consideration for their impact on equitable outcomes.

Using evidence, explain how policies are developed to address public problems and concerns and achieve equitable outcomes.

Analyze why and how individuals, businesses, and nations around the world specialize and trade.

Discover how positive incentives (e.g., sale prices, earning money) and negative consequences (e.g., library fines, parking tickets) influence behavior in the U.S. economy and around the world.

Determine the ways in which government pays for goods and services it provides.

Explain that interest is the price the borrower pays for using someone else's money.

Use print and digital maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Investigate and explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places within the United States change over time.

Explain how human settlements and technological advancements have impacted natural resources.

Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to identify cause and effects of relationships in history and the impacts of underrepresented groups.

Use information about a historical source, including the creator (author), date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose, to judge the extent to which the source is useful for studying a particular topic.

Summarize the central claim in a work of history.

Emerging and Future Technologies

Impacts of Computing

Algorithms and Programming

Data and Analysis

Networks and the Internet

Computing Systems

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.