Marshall Middle School
Grade 5 Science
Teacher: Nadine Weedman
Month
September
2008
Content
Scientific Inquiry
•Perform various controlled
experiments using inquiry
Scientific Method
•Observation
•Question and Hypothesis
•Experiment
•Conclusion
Scientific Method
•Relate inquiries to the scientific
method
•Memorize the process
•Formulate a hypothesis
•
Animal Diversity
•Animal Traits
•Animal Adaptations
October
2008
Skills
Scientific Inquiry
•Why is curiosity a good quality?
Animal Diversity
•Animal Traits
•Animal Adaptations
Food Chains and Food Webs
•Food Chains
•Food Webs
Animal Diversity
•Explore how to classify animals.
•Describe observable characteristics
of vertebrates and invertebrates.
•Classify animals by using a key.
•Explore how animals adapt to their
environment.
•Compare and contrast various forms
of animal adaptations.
•Understand that certain
characteristics are inherited.
•Describe the impact of hybridization
and crossbreeding on animal diversity.
•
Animal Diversity
•Explore how to classify animals.
•Describe observable characteristics
of vertebrates and invertebrates.
•Classify animals by using a key.
•Explore how animals adapt to their
environment.
•Compare and contrast various forms
of animal adaptations.
•Understand that certain
characteristics are inherited.
•Describe the impact of hybridization
Assessment
Resources
Scientific Inquiry
•Various experiments using a step-bystep plan
•Penny experiment
•Paper Project
•Paper Project changing a variable
•Tower Power
•Straw birds
•Paper Airplanes
•Teacher observation
Scientific Inquiry
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Experiment Process Sheet
Scientific Method
•Scientific Method Process Sheet
•Various experiments using a step-bystep plan
•Paper Project
•Walls Project
•Teacher observation
Animal Diversity
•Lesson quizzes
•Chapter test
•Lesson outlines and vocabulary
•Graphic organizers
•Teacher observations
Animal Diversity
•Lesson quizzes
•Chapter test
•Lesson outlines and vocabulary
•Graphic organizers
•Teacher observations
Food Chains and Food Webs
•Food Chain Model
•Food Web Model
•Interactions Among Living Things
Scientific Method
•Scientific Method Sheet
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Experiment Process Sheet
Animal Diversity
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Graphic Organizers website/book
Animal Diversity
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Graphic Organizers website/book
Food Chains and Food Webs
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Websites
•Discovery Works
•Graphic Organizers
www.curriculummapper.com
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Grade 5 Science
Weedman
Month
Content
Biomes
•Tundra
•Taiga
•Tropical Rain Forest
•Grassland
•Desert
•Deciduous Forest
Skills
and crossbreeding on animal diversity.
•
Food Chains and Food Webs
•Differentiate between food chains
and food webs
•Recognize the importance of the
food chain
•Recognize the similarities and
differences pertaining to food chains
and food webs
•Construct a food chain and a food
web
•
Marshall Middle School
Assessment
Resources
Biomes
•Biome shoebox
•Chapter review
•Chapter test
•Powerpoint presentations
•Biome foldable
Biomes
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Computers used for powerpoint
presentations
•Biome shoebox rubric
•Powerpoint presentation rubric
•
Scientific Inquiry
• Various experiments using a step-bystep plan
•Paper Project
•Tower Power
•Straw Birds
•Paper Airplanes
•Teacher observation
Scientific Inquiry
• Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Experiment Process Sheet
Biomes
•Differentiate between the 6 various
biomes
•Compare similarities between
biomes
•Contrast between biomes
•Recognize and explain the various
animals and plantlife living in each
biome
November
2008
Scientific Inquiry
•Why is curiosity a good quality?
Scientific Method
• Observation
•Question and Hypothesis
• Experiment
•Conclusion
Animal Diversity
•Animal Traits
•Animal Adaptations
Scientific Inquiry
•Perform various controlled
experiments using inquiry
•
Scientific Method
• Relate inquiries to the scientific
method
•Memorize the process
•Formulate a hypothesis
•
Animal Diversity
•Explore how to classify animals.
•Describe observable characteristics
Scientific Method
• Scientific Method Process Sheet
•Various experiments using a step-bystep plan
•Paper Project
•Walls Project
Scientific Method
• Scientific Method Sheet
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Experiment Process Sheet
Animal Diversity
•Websites
www.curriculummapper.com
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Grade 5 Science
Weedman
Month
December
2008
Content
Animal Diversity
•Animal Traits
•Animal Adaptations
Food Chains and Food Webs
•Food Chains
•Food Webs
January
2009
Biomes
•Tundra
Skills
of vertebrates and invertebrates.
•Classify animals by using a key.
•Explore how animals adapt to their
environment.
•Compare and contrast various forms
of animal adaptations.
•Understand that certain
characteristics are inherited.
•Describe the impact of hybridization
and crossbreeding on animal diversity.
•
Animal Diversity
•Explore how to classify animals.
•Describe observable characteristics
of vertebrates and invertebrates.
•Classify animals by using a key.
•Explore how animals adapt to their
environment.
•Compare and contrast various forms
of animal adaptations.
•Understand that certain
characteristics are inherited.
•Describe the impact of hybridization
and crossbreeding on animal diversity.
•
Food Chains and Food Webs
•Differentiate between food chains
and food webs
•Recognize the importance of the
food chain
•Recognize the similarities and
differences pertaining to food chains
and food webs
•Construct a food chain and a food
web
•
Biomes
•Differentiate between the 6 various
Marshall Middle School
Assessment
•Teacher observation
Resources
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Graphic Organizers website/book
Animal Diversity
•Lesson quizzes
•Chapter test
•Lesson outlines and vocabulary
•Graphic organizers
•Teacher observations
Animal Diversity
•Lesson quizzes
•Chapter test
•Lesson outlines and vocabulary
•Graphic organizers
•Teacher observations
Food Chains and Food Webs
•Food Chain Model
•Food Web Model
•Food Chain and Food Webs
worksheet
Biomes
•Biome shoebox
Animal Diversity
•Websites
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Graphic Organizers website/book
Food Chains and Food Webs
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Websites
•Discovery Works
•Graphic Organizers
Biomes
•Websites
www.curriculummapper.com
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Grade 5 Science
Weedman
Month
Content
•Taiga
•Tropical Rain Forest
•Grassland
•Desert
•Deciduous Forest
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Weathering
•Erosion
•Geology
•Landforms
•Classifying Rocks
•Soil
February
2009
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Weathering
•Erosion
•Geology
•Landforms
•Classifying Rocks
•Soil
Simple Machines
•Levers, wheel and axles, wedges,
inclined plane, screws, pulleys, and
gears
Skills
biomes
•Compare similarities between 6
various biomes
•Contrast between 6 various biomes
•Recognize and explain the various
animals and plantlife living in each
biome
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Explore forces that build Earth's
landforms
•Compare the effect of forces that
build Earth's landforms
•Examine the effects of weathering
and erosion
•Identify geologic forces on other
bodies of the solar system
•Explore ways to classify rocks
•Compare and contrast properties and
uses of rocks
•Define soil as a resource with many
properties
•Trace the steps of the rock cycle,
including human-made rocks
•
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Explore forces that build Earth's
landforms
•Compare the effect of forces that
build Earth's landforms
•Examine the effects of weathering
and erosion
•Identify geologic forces on other
bodies of the solar system
•Explore ways to classify rocks
•Compare and contrast properties and
uses of rocks
•Define soil as a resource with many
properties
Marshall Middle School
Assessment
•Chapter review
•Chapter test
•Powerpoint presentations
•Biome foldable
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Stalactite/stalagmite experiment
•Chapter 7 Lesson 1 quiz
•Chapter review-Jeopardy
•Chapter test
•Volcanoes
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Stalactite/stalagmite experiment
•Chapter 7 Lesson 1 quiz
•Chapter 7 Lesson 2 Landform Project
Resources
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Computers used for powerpoint
presentations
•Powerpoint presentation rubric
•Biome shoebox rubric
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MIneral
•Websites/slides
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Stalactite/stalagmite experiment
(baking soda, jars, paper towels, water,
yarn)
•Bill Nye video
•Sharon Root~speaker on Recycling
•Chapter review-Jeopardy
•Chapter test
•Volcanoes
•Minnesota Timeline
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
MInerals
•Websites/slides
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Stalactite/stalagmite experiment
(baking soda, jars, paper towels, water,
yarn)
•Bill Nye video
•Sharon Root~speaker on Recycling
•Rock kits
Simple Machines
•Pretest
•Posttest
Simple Machines
•Edheads website
•Simple Machines models
www.curriculummapper.com
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Grade 5 Science
Weedman
Month
Content
Skills
Marshall Middle School
Assessment
•Trace the steps of the rock cycle,
including human-made rocks
•Identify and classify various rocks as
being either igneous, sedimentary, or
metamorphic rocks.
•
Resources
•Glossary
Simple Machines
•Explore how the 7 different simple
machines work
•Compare and contrast the 7
machines
•Identify the 7 simple machines and
give examples of each
March
2009
Simple Machines
•Levers, wheel and axles, wedges,
inclined plane, screws, pulleys, and
gears
Scientists
•People and Technology in science
history
Inventions Project
•Scientific Method
•Inventors
Science Fair
Simple Machines
•Explore how the 7 different simple
machines work
•Compare and contrast the 7
machines
•Identify the 7 simple machines and
give examples of each
Scientists
•Identify various people and
technology that have had a positive
impact in the field of science
•
Inventions Project
•Relate inquiries to the scientific
method
•Memorize the process
•Formulate a hypothesis
•Familiarize themselves with various
inventors throughout history
•
Simple Machines
•Pretest
•Posttest
Scientists
•Research paper
Inventions Project
•Scientific Method Process sheet
•Teacher observation
•Student inventions
Science Fair
•Scientific Method Process sheet
•Experiments
Simple Machines
•Edheads website
•Simple Machines models
•Glossary
Scientists
•Internet
•Inventions book
Inventions Project
•Internet
•Steven Caney's Invention Book
•Newsweek Extra 2000-The Power of
the Invention
•Incredible Inventions
•Inventors and Inventions
•Inventors Workshop
•Silver Burdett and Ginn Science
Invention Convention
•
Science Fair
•Internet
www.curriculummapper.com
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Grade 5 Science
Weedman
Month
April 2009
Content
Skills
•Scientific Method
•Performing a controlled experiment
•Collecting data
Science Fair
•Relate inquiries to the scientific
method
•Perform a controlled experiment
•Collect data
•Present the data that was collected
•Make a computer generated graph to
show specific data
•
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
Minerals
•Explore forces that build Earth's
landforms
•Compare the effect of forces that
build Earth's landforms
•Examine the effects of weathering
and erosion
•Identify geologic forces on other
bodies of the solar system
•Explore ways to classify rocks
•Compare and contrast properties and
uses of rocks
•Define soil as a resource with many
properties
•Trace the steps of the rock cycle,
including human-made rocks
•Identify and classify various rocks as
being either igneous, sedimentary, or
metamorphic rocks.
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
Minerals
•Weathering
•Erosion
•Geology
•Landforms
•Classifying Rocks
•Soil
Simple Machines
•Levers, wheel and axles, wedges,
inclined plane, screws, pulleys, and
gears
Scientist Paper
•People and Technology in science
history
Marshall Middle School
Assessment
Resources
•Boards
•Presentation of project
•Teacher observation
•www.scifair.org
•Science Fair Projects by Janice
VanCleave
•365 Simple Science Experiments by
E. Richard Churchill, Louis V.
Loeschnig, and Muriel Mandell
•
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
Minerals
•Stalactite/stalagmite experiment
•Chapter 7 Lesson 1quiz
•Chapter review-Jeopardy
•Chapter test
•Volcanoes
•Minnesota Timeline
Chapter 7-Landforms, Rocks, and
Minerals
•Websites/slides
•MacMillan McGraw-Hill science text
•Stalactite/stalagmite experiment
(baking soda, jars, paper towels, water,
yarn)
•Bill Nye video
•Sharon Root~speaker on Recycling
•Rock kits
Simple Machines
•Pretest
•Posttest
Scientist Paper
•Research paper
Simple Machines
•Edheads website
•Simple Machines models
•Glossary
Scientist Paper
•Internet
•Inventions book
Simple Machines
•Explore how the 7 different simple
machines work
•Compare and contrast the 7
machines
•Identify the 7 simple machines and
give examples of each
Scientist Paper
•Identify various people and
www.curriculummapper.com
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Grade 5 Science
Weedman
Month
May 2009
Content
Inventions Project
•Scientific Method
•Inventors
Science Fair
•Scientific Method
•Peforming a controlled experiment
•Collecting data
Skills
technology that have had a positive
impact in the field of science.
•
Inventions Project
•Relate inquiries to the scientific
method
•Memorize the process
•Formulate a hypothesis
•Familiarize themselves with various
inventors throughout history
•
Science Fair
•Relate inquiries to the scientific
method
•Perform a controlled experiment
•Collect data
•Present the data that was collected
•Make a computer generated graph to
show specific data
•
Marshall Middle School
Assessment
Inventions Project
•Scientific Method Process sheet
•Teacher observation
•Student inventions
Science Fair
•Scientific Method Process sheet
•Experiments
•Boards
•Presentation of project
•Teacher observation
Resources
Inventions Project
•Internet
•Steven Caney's Invention Book
•Newsweek Extra 2000-The Power of
the Invention
•Incredible Inventions
•Inventors and Inventions
•Inventors Workshop
•Silver Burdett and Ginn Science
Invention Convention
•
Science Fair
•Internet
•www.scifair.org
•Science Fair Projects by Janice
VanCleave
•365 Simple Science Experiments by
E. Richard Churchill, Louis V.
Loeschnig, and Muriel Mandell
•
www.curriculummapper.com
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