Science engages students in enjoyable, active learning experiences. Science instruction should be as thrilling an experience for a child as seeing a rainbow, growing a flower, or holding a toad. The science curriculum allows students to experience the joy of doing science while learning both skills and concepts. In fifth grade, students will:
- Apply scientific processes, communicate scientific ideas effectively and understand the nature of science.
- Understand the effects of volcanoes, earthquakes, weathering and erosion on the earth's surface.
- Observe magnetic forces between two magnets or between a magnet and materials made of iron.
- Understand features of static and current electricity.
- Understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment.