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Core Content and Skills
Science 5
2008-2009
BOE Approved

Living Environment: Plants  Content   Skills  Plants have roots, stems, leaves, and organized groups of tissues. Photosynthesis Growth and development Producers and consumers (energy) Source of atmospheric oxygen vocabulary: xylem, phloem, chlorphyll   understand the function of the plant parts identify plant parts: roots, leaves, stem, flower/seed

Animal Classifications  Content   Skills  Animals Animal classifications Animal body plans Animal life processes   Understand animal body parts Classify animals Understand animal like processes Research methods

The Living Environment  Content   Skills  Producers and consumers Food chains and webs Cycles of matter Vocabulary: herivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers   Explain food chains and food webs

The Living Environment - Environmental Science  Content   Skills  Populations Ecosystems Competition, survival, relationships Vocabulary: competitive, harmful, beneficial, population, population density, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, symbiosis   Understand relationships (symbiosis) Estimate population density Define types of symbiosis

The Living Environment  Content   Skills  Cell organization Body systems and the function of each   Understand how cells form tissues, tissues form organs, and organs form organ systems.

Physical Setting  Content   Skills  Layers of the earth's movement (folds, tilts, faults) Pangaea Continental Drift Plate Tectonics Interior of the earth is hot. Heat flow and movement cause crust to move. The earth consists of three layers (crust, mantle & core) Folded, tilted, faulted or displaced like puzzle, suggesting that they were all once together in a single land mass called pangaea. The lithoshere's pieces are in constant, slow motion driven by currents in the mantle.   Make a model of the earth's layers Explain continental drift and pangaea Understand place tectonics Fit continents back together to see "pangaea"

Physical Setting  Content   Skills  Earthquakes The Rock Cycle Rock Classification Plates may collide, move, or slide. Volcanic activity and earthquakes result from these those movement. Types of rock may be transformed form one type to another in the rock cycle. Rocks are are classified according to their method of information. Rock are classified according to their method of formation. Three classes are: sedimentary, ingeneous, metamorphic.   Identify classes of rock - sort rocks into classes. Make a model of a volcano Understand earthquakes Demonstrate the rock cycle

Physical Setting  Content   Skills  Weathering and erosion Water cycle Dynamic processes that wear away earth's surface include weathering and erosion. Weathering breaks down rocks to form sediment. Soil consists of sediment, organic material, water, and air. Erosion is the transport of sediment, gravity and is the force behind erosion (agents) - moving water, wind, glaciers. Water circulates through the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere.   Understand weathering and erosion Describe the water cycle Demonstrate the water cycle through a model project.

Physical Setting  Content   Skills  Layers of earth Rocks and minerals The atmosphere is a mixture of gases, atmosphere is stratified into layers As altitude increases, air pressure decreases Lithosphere is rock at earth' surface, hydrosphere covers more than 2/3 of earth Rocks are composed of minerals Minerals are identified by streak, hardness, reaction to acid Fossils are found in sedimentary rock, evidence of ancient life   Define terms, identify minerals Interpret fossils Understand the three layers of the earth and how they work together Construct a model of the earth's layers

Physical Setting  Content   Skills  Properties of matter Phases of matter Substances have properties such as color, odor, phase, and density, solubility, hardness, etc. Solubility is affected by temp., sufrace area, pressure Buoyance is determined by comparative densities Solids, liquids, gases: Gasses have no shape or volume (assume shape and volume) of a closed container. A solid has definite shape and volume.   Understand the phases of matter. Describe characteristic properties of a substance. Compare and contrast characteristic properties of substances.