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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. Over the course of the year we will study the following units:
As a 5th grade scientist, you'll participate in designing and carrying out hands-on investigations, class discussions and readings, individual recording and note-taking, and learning to code (or building upon). By using consistent classroom practices and procedures, the 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.
- The knowledge that science and engineering, technology, and mathematics are interdependent human enterprises and, as such, have implied strengths and limitations.
- Ability to reason scientifically.
- Awareness of how to use scientific knowledge and scientific and engineering practices for personal and social purposes.