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