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Our 5th Grade Science Program features instruction and investigations dedicated to building scientific literacy, created by the FOSS Elementary Science program.
5th grade scientists will participate in hands-on investigations, class discussions and readings, and individual recording and note-taking. Using consistent classroom practices and procedures, our objective is to build:
- Familiarity with the natural world, its diversity, and its interdependence.
- Understanding the disciplinary core ideas and the cross-cutting concepts of science, such as patterns; cause and effect; scale, proportion, and quantity; systems and system models; energy and matter—flows, cycles, and conservation; structure and function; and stability and change.
- Knowing that science and engineering, technology, and mathematics are interdependent human enterprises and, as such, have implied strengths and limitations.
- Ability to reason scientifically.
- Using scientific knowledge and scientific and engineering practices for personal and social purposes.