Science 5

BIG IDEAS

Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact within their environment.

Solutions are homogeneous.

Machines are devices that transfer force and energy.

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Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources.

Link to BC Science Curriculum

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Curricular Competencies:

Questioning and predicting

​- Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
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- Make observations in familiar or unfamiliar contexts

- Identify questions to answer or problems to solve through scientific inquiry
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- Make predictions about the findings of their inquiry

Planning and conducting

- With support, plan appropriate investigations to answer their questions or solve problems they have identified
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- Decide which variable should be changed and measured for a fair test

- Choose appropriate data to collect to answer their questions

- ​Observe, measure, and record data, using appropriate tools, including digital technologies
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- Use equipment and materials safely, identifying potential risks

Processing and analyzing data and information

- Experience and interpret the local environment

- Identify First Peoples perspectives and knowledge as sources of information
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- ​Construct and use a variety of methods, including tables, graphs, and digital technologies, as appropriate, to represent patterns or relationships in data
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- Identify patterns and connections in data

- Compare data with predictions and develop explanations for results

- Demonstrate an openness to new ideas and consideration of alternatives

Evaluating

- Evaluate whether their investigations were fair tests

- ​Identify possible sources of error
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- Suggest improvements to their investigation methods

- Identify some of the assumptions in secondary sources
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- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence

- Identify some of the social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations

Applying and innovating

- Contribute to care for self, others, and community through personal or collaborative approaches
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- Co-operatively design projects

​- Transfer and apply learning to new situations

​- Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

Communicating

- Communicate ideas, explanations, and processes in a variety of ways

- Express and reflect on personal, shared, or others’ experiences of place

Content:

- ​basic structures and functions of body systems:

• digestive
• musculo-skeletal
• respiratory
• circulatory

- solutions and solubility

- properties of simple machines and their force effect

- machines:

• constructed
• found in nature​

- power - the rate at which energy is transferred 

- ​the rock cycle

- local types of earth material

- ​First Peoples concepts of interconnectedness in the environment

- ​the nature of sustainable practices around BC’s resources

- First Peoples knowledge of sustainable practices