Grade 5

Students Will Be Able To:

• Develop an understanding of how plants and animals use internal and external adaptations to aid in survival, growth, behavior and reproduction.  Explore sense receptors role in helping animals detect specific types of information in the environment and classifying learned behaviors versus instinctual behaviors.
• Define how senses and memories impact organisms' responses to the environment.
• Synthesize information gathered throughout the unit, generating solutions for eliminating invasive species and promoting species survival through real-world scenarios and an interactive design challenge.

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Students Will Be Able To:

• Identify patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows.
• Investigate the actions of objects and planetary bodies in relationship to the Earth to analyze how gravity impacts objects close to the Earth. 
• Explore the effects of earth's gravity by creating a model of a thrill ride to demonstrate how gravity impacts motion.
• Observe patterns of constellations to explain the movement of the Earth around the Sun.
• Observe the day/night cycle and shadow patterns to deduce the rotation of the Earth around its axis and revolution of Earth around the sun. 
• Investigate the apparent brightness of stars to relate to the distance to discover the relationship between the distance of a star and the star’s apparent brightness.
• Recognize and describe the orbit and patterns of the moon by analyzing shadows and creating models of the moon and earth to discover why the moon's apparent shape and position change.

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Students Will Be Able To:

• Identify patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows.
• Investigate the actions of objects and planetary bodies in relationship to the Earth to analyze how gravity impacts objects close to the Earth. 
• Explore the effects of earth's gravity by creating a model of a thrill ride to demonstrate how gravity impacts motion.
• Observe patterns of constellations to explain the movement of the Earth around the Sun.
• Observe the day/night cycle and shadow patterns to deduce the rotation of the Earth around its axis and revolution of Earth around the sun. 
• Investigate the apparent brightness of stars to relate to the distance to discover the relationship between the distance of a star and the star’s apparent brightness.
• Recognize and describe the orbit and patterns of the moon by analyzing shadows and creating models of the moon and earth to discover why the moon's apparent shape and position change.

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