Students compare properties of substances before and after forming solutions and demonstrate the conservation of matter.
A comprehensive review lesson covering Earth's water distribution, fossil records in rock layers, plate tectonics, and the water cycle to prepare students for the Unit 4 Quiz.
Reviewing the principles of thermal energy, including states of matter, heat-related properties, and conservation of mass during heating.
An interactive 5th-grade science lesson where students become 'Earth Guardians' to solve water cycle mysteries and investigate how human activity impacts Earth's systems. Students will review core concepts of water distribution, geology, and plate tectonics before diving into a deep-dive on human-water interactions.
Students will investigate how thermal energy affects the speed and spacing of particles in a gas. They will interpret models and data to explain why hot air rises and how this principle is applied to technologies like hot-air balloons.
Students will explore how the mass of a substance remains constant even as it undergoes phase changes (freezing, melting, boiling). They will analyze data involving state changes and evaluate scientific claims about matter 'disappearing' during evaporation.
Students will review the law of conservation of mass as it applies to mixtures and dissolving. They will practice interpreting data tables to prove that matter still exists even when it is no longer visible in a solution.
A hands-on exploration of physical changes in matter, focusing on reversibility, state changes, and the conservation of identity.
Students design a balloon rocket investigation to test how varying force affects motion along a string.
Students design and conduct an experimental investigation to test the effect of force on a car traveling down a ramp.
