Science 5

PLEASE NOTE: Please contact us for the materials list for this course. Primary Grade: 5 Grade Range: 5 Credit Equivalency: Semester: 0.5 Credits COURSE DESCRIPTION Science 5 puts the emphasis on doing science. Students build their knowledge by crafting models, conducting experiments, creating terrariums, and making electromagnets. They learn about plant and animal cells and their functions, photosynthesis, and the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem. Students explore the global water cycle, the negative impacts of weather, and the relationship between weather and climate. They deepen their understanding of their home planet by investigating landforms, volcanic activity, the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and geosphere, the tilt of the Earth’s axis, the impacts of its revolution around the Sun, and the Sun’s role as the source of energy for life on Earth. Students are introduced to elements as the basic substances of all matter and the relationship between