Fifth Grade Virtual Field Trips

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Animated logo with text 'Virtual Field Trip to the California Science Center' and 'for grades K-5'

Engage your class in a selection of grade-specific, standards-based activities! All activities and lessons were carefully crafted with an eye towards Next Generation Science Standards for Fifth Grade students.

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Fifth Grade Life Science: Grow With the Flow

How do organisms fuel themselves to survive?

Inspire your 5th grade scientists to think deeply about how matter and energy move within food webs as they explore unique ecosystems and organisms on this virtual field trip to the California Science Center. Students will use models and experiment with sprouts to develop an understanding that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water and that the energy in animals’ food was once energy from the sun.

Next Generation Science Standards Addressed

5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1 and 5-LS2-1

On-Demand Video

Join our educators to discover how organisms in the California Science Center’s Kelp Forest and the Rose Garden fuel themselves to survive.

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Virtual Field Trip Video - 5th Grade Life Science

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Educator Monica stands near the kelp forest exhibit wearing an animated dive helmet. She has an animated flower to her left and animated kelp to her right.

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Downloadable Activity Guide

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In this activity, students will germinate a seed in order to generate and record observable data. Students will use this data as evidence to engage in argument about the sources of energy and matter that a plant needs to grow and survive.

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Fifth Grade Physical Science: Particle Party

How do particles behave?

Fifth grade scientists will not believe what they are seeing with their very own eyes on this virtual field trip. As they explore the world of particles that are too small to be seen, scientists will learn how to explain and model what’s happening. Science is more than meets the eye!

Next Generation Science Standards Addressed

5-PS1-1 and 5-PS1-4

On-Demand Video

Join our educators as they investigate the difference between physical and chemical reactions in order to better understand mixtures.

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Educators experimenting with assorted chemicals

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Educators experimenting with assorted chemicals

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Downloadable Activity Guide

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Students will conduct an ink chromatography experiment, and then create their own model to explain what happens to a mixture of ink when its particles are separated.

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Preview image of student activity guide in Spanish.