Grade 5 Science North Carolina standards Standards

Earth’s Systems

Heredity- Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Ecosystems- Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

From Molecules to Organisms- Structures and Processes

Motion and Stability- Forces and Interactions

Matter and its Interactions

Understand how Earth systems (hydrosphere and atmosphere) impact patterns of weather and climate.

Analyze and interpret data to compare daily and seasonal changes in weather conditions (including wind speed and direction, precipitation, and temperature) and patterns.

Analyze and interpret weather data to explain current and upcoming weather conditions (including severe weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes) in a given location.

Construct an explanation to summarize the ocean's influences on weather and climate in North Carolina.

Use models to explain how the sun’s energy drives the processes of the water cycle (including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation).

Understand how structures and systems of the human body perform functions necessary for life.

Use models to recognize the organizational structure of humans as a multicellular organism (cell, tissue, organ, system, organism).

Use models to compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, nervous) as it relates to their functions necessary for life.

Understand the interdependence of plants and animals within their ecosystem.

Engage in argument from evidence to compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems (including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, forests, and grasslands) in terms of their ability to support a variety of populations.

Use models to classify organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers .

Use models to infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationships of plants and animals to their ecosystem.

Understand some characteristics of an organism are inherited and other characteristics are acquired.

Ask questions to compare instincts and learned behaviors.

Ask questions to compare inherited and acquired traits.

Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur.

Carry out investigations to compare the weight of objects before and after an interaction.

Carry out investigations to explain whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

Carry out investigations to compare how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications.

Understand force, motion, and the relationship between them.

Carry out investigations to explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.

Use mathematics and computational thinking to infer the motion of an object (including position, direction, and speed).

Safety, Law, & Ethics

Social Interactions

Culture

Program Development

Modularity

Control

Variables

Algorithms

Influence and Models

Collection, Visualization, & Transformation

Storage

Storage

Cyber Security

Network Communication and Organization

Troubleshooting

Hardware and Software

Devices

Create multiple algorithms for the same task to determine which is the most accurate and efficient.

Create programs that use variables to store and modify data

Construct programs that include sequences.

Construct programs using simple loops.

Construct programs that implement conditionals.

Decompose problems into smaller, manageable, subproblems to facilitate the program development process.

Modify, remix, or incorporate portions of an existing program into one's own work.

Apply an iterative process to the development of a program by including diverse perspectives and considering user preferences.

Give appropriate attribution when creating or remixing programs while respecting intellectual property rights.

Identify and debug errors in an algorithm or program to ensure it runs as intended.

Take on varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development.

Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations.

Evaluate the features available on digital devices to perform a variety of classroom tasks.

Model how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks

Determine potential solutions to solve simple hardware and software problems using common troubleshooting strategies.

Identify the type of data encoded in a file based on file extension.

Illustrate the process of file management and version control.

Organize and present collected data visually to highlight relationships and support a claim.

Communicate using data to highlight or predict outcomes.

Compare computing technologies that have changed the world and how they both influence and are influenced by cultural practices

Explore the tools that can be used to improve accessibility and usability of technology products for the diverse needs and wants of users.

Seek diverse perspectives with collaboration for the purpose of improving computational artifacts.

Exhibit positive digital citizenship and social responsibility in online interactions.

Utilize public domain or creative commons media, and refrain from copying or using material created by others without permission.

Model how information is broken down into smaller pieces, transmitted as packets through multiple devices over networks and the Internet, and reassembled at the destination.

Explain your digital footprint and how personal information can be protected.

Algorithems and Programming

Computing Systems

Data and Analysis

Impacts of Computing

Networks and the Internet