5th+Grade+Science

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=Research Skills=
 * Uses multiple sources of information to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments or data.

=Animal Encounters, Click Here for Research Report Details.=
 * ======//This unit accompanies the reading lessons with Houghton Mifflin Theme 6.//======
 * Identifies the general purpose of selected animal systems and explains how they work together.
 * Explains that the traits of an individual are influenced by both environment and genetics.
 * Explains how behavioral and physical characteristics of organisms help them to survive.
 * Describes how fossils provide evidence about how living things and environmental conditions have changed.
 * Analyzes the relationship of environmental change and catastrophic events to species extinction.
 * Relates degree of similarity in anatomical features to the classification of contemporary organisms.

=Space=

Solar System, Click Here for Research Report Details.

 * Uses a model to demonstrate how changes in seasons are due to variations in the intensity of sunlight caused by the tilt of the Earth on its axis.
 * Designs a model that describes the position and relationship of the planets and other objects to the sun.
 * Describes the motion of planets and moons in terms of rotation on axis.
 * Explains moon phases are related to its orbits, due to gravity resulting in the amount of observable reflected light.
 * Recognizes that nighttime objects and the sun appear to move because the Earth rotates on its axis and orbits the sun.
 * Explains lunar and solar eclipses based on the relative positions of the Earth, moon, sun and the orbit of the moon.
 * Explains the tides of the oceans as they relate to the gravitational pull and orbit of the moon
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 * 2) BBC Solar System and Galaxy
 * 3) @http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/space/revisiting_the_moon/
 * 4) @Http://www.moonconnection.comHTTP:

=Forces in Motion=
 * Distinguishes between contact forces and non-contact forces and demonstrates the change in the motion of an object.
 * Describes what happens when two forces act on an object in the same or opposing directions.
 * Describes how constant motion is the result of balanced forces and changes in the motion of objects are caused by unbalanced forces.
 * Relates the size of change in motion to the strength of unbalanced forces and the mass of an object.
 * Explains the motion of an object relative to its point of reference and describes the motion in terms of distance, time and direction and in relation to other objects.
 * Illustrates how motion can be measured and represented on a graph.