5th Grade
PASS Standards
Oklahoma Academic Standards
Science Processes
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Observe and Measure
Classify
Experiment and Inquiry
Interpret and Communicate
Inquiry
Standard 1: Properties of Matter and Energy – Describe
characteristics of objects based on physical qualities such as size,
shape, color, mass, temperature, and texture. Energy can produce
changes in properties of objects such as changes in temperature.
The student will engage in investigations that integrate the
process standards and lead to the discovery of the following
objectives:
1. Matter has physical properties that can be used for identification
(e.g., color, texture, shape).
2. Physical properties of objects can be observed, described, and
measured using tools such as simple microscopes, gram spring
scales, metric rulers, metric balances, and Celsius thermometers.
3. Energy can be transferred in many ways (e.g., energy from the
Sun to air, water, and metal).
4. Energy can be classified as either potential or kinetic.
Standard 2: Organisms and Environments – Organisms within an
ecosystem are dependent on one another and the environment.
The student will engage in investigations that integrate the
process standards and lead to the discovery of the following
objectives:
1. Organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other for food,
shelter, and reproduction.
a. Ecosystems include food chains and food webs.
b. Relationships exist between consumers, producers, and
decomposers within an ecosystem.
c. Predators and prey relationships affect populations in an
ecosystem.
2. Changes in environmental conditions due to human interactions
or natural phenomena can affect the survival of individual
organisms and/or entire species.
a. Earth’s resources can be natural (non-renewable) or man-made
(renewable).
b. The practices of recycling, reusing, and reducing help to conserve
Earth’s limited resources.
Science Practices
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Asking Questions and Defining Problems
Developing and Using Models
Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Evidence
Matter and Its Interactions
5-PS1-1: Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles
too small to be seen.
5-PS1-2: 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.
5-PS1-3: Make observations and measurements to identify materials
based on their properties.
5-PS1-4: Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of
two or more substances results in new substances.
Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
5-PS2-1: Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by
Earth on objects is directed down.
Energy
5-PS3-1: 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.
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need
for growth chiefly from air and water.
Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among
plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
5-LS2-2: Use models to explain factors that upset the stability of local
ecosystems.
PASS Standards
Standard 3: Structure of Earth and the Solar System – Interaction
between air, water, rock/soil, and all living things. The student will
engage in investigations that integrate the process standards and
lead to the discovery of the following objectives:
1. Soil consists of weathered rocks and decomposed organic
material from dead plants, animals, and bacteria. Soils are often
found in layers.
2. Weather exhibits daily and seasonal patterns (i.e., air
temperature, basic cloud types –cumulus, cirrus, stratus, and
nimbus, wind direction, wind speed, humidity, precipitation).
a. Weather measurement tools include thermometer, barometer,
anemometer, and rain gauge.
b. Weather maps are used to display current weather and weather
predictions.
3. Earth is the third planet from the Sun in a system that includes
the moon, the Sun, and seven other planets.
a. Most objects in the solar system are in regular and predictable
motion (e.g., phases of the moon).
b. Objects in the Solar System have individual characteristics (e.g.,
distance from Sun, number of moons, and temperature of object).
c. The Earth rotates on its axis while making revolutions around the
Sun.
Oklahoma Academic Standards
Earth’s Place in the Universe
5-ESS1-1: Support an argument that differences in the apparent
brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative
distances from Earth.
5-ESS1-2: 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
5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the
geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
5-ESS2-2: 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
5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual
communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and
environment.
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
 Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested,
and used to explain change. (5-PS1-4, 5-PS2-1)
Energy and Matter
 Energy can be transferred in various ways and between
objects. (5-PS3-1)
 Matter is transported into, out of, and within systems. (5-LS11)
Systems and System Models
 A system can be described in terms of its components and
their interactions. (5-LS2-1, 5LS2-2, 5-ESS2-1, 5-ESS3-1)
Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
 Natural objects exist from the very small to the immensely
large. (5-PS1-1, 5-ESS1-1)
 Standard units are used to measure and describe physical
quantities such as weight, time, temperature, and volume. (5PS1-2, 5-PS1-3, 5-ESS2-2)
Patterns
 Similarities and differences in patterns can be used to sort,
classify, communicate and analyze simple rates of change for
natural phenomena (5-ESS1-2)