Texas State Standards for Science: Grade 5

TX.112.7 (5.1) Scientific Processes: The student conducts field and laboratory investigations following home and school safety procedures and environmentally appropriate and ethical practices.

5.1. (A) The student is expected to demonstrate safe practices during field and laboratory investigations. 530
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5.1. (B) The student is expected to make wise choices in the use and conservation of resources and the disposal or recycling of materials. 291
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TX.112.7 (5.2) Scientific Processes: The student uses scientific methods during field and laboratory investigations.

5.2. (A) The student is expected to plan and implement descriptive and simple experimental investigations including asking well-defined questions, formulating testable hypotheses, and selecting and using equipment and technology. 234
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5.2. (B) The student is expected to collect information by observing and measuring. 126
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5.2. (C) The student is expected to analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence. 73
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5.2. (D) The student is expected to communicate valid conclusions. 203
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5.2. (E) The student is expected to construct simple graphs, tables, maps, and charts using tools including computers to organize, examine, and evaluate information. 163
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TX.112.7 (5.3) Scientific Processes: The student uses critical thinking and scientific problem solving to make informed decisions.

5.3. (A) The student is expected to analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to their strengths and weaknesses using scientific evidence and information. 96
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5.3. (B) The student is expected to draw inferences based on information related to promotional materials for products and services. 75
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5.3. (C) The student is expected to represent the natural world using models and identify their limitations. 410
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5.3. (D) The student is expected to evaluate the impact of research on scientific thought, society, and the environment. 629
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5.3. (E) The student is expected to connect Grade 5 science concepts with the history of science and contributions of scientists. 245
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TX.112.7 (5.4) Scientific Processes: The student knows how to use a variety of tools and methods to conduct science inquiry.

5.4. (A) The student is expected to collect and analyze information using tools including calculators, microscopes, cameras, sound recorders, computers, hand lenses, rulers, thermometers, compasses, balances, hot plates, meter sticks, timing devices, magnets, collecting nets, and safety goggles. 156
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5.4. (B) The student is expected to demonstrate that repeated investigations may increase the reliability of results. 393
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TX.112.7 (5.5) Science Concepts: The student knows that a system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact.

5.5. (A) The student is expected to describe some cycles, structures, and processes that are found in a simple system. 101
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5.5. (B) The student is expected to describe some interactions that occur in a simple system. 101
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TX.112.7 (5.6) Science Concepts: The student knows that some change occurs in cycles.

5.6. (A) The student is expected to identify events and describe changes that occur on a regular basis such as in daily, weekly, lunar, and seasonal cycles. 399
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5.6. (B) The student is expected to identify the significance of the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. 96
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5.6. (C) The student is expected to describe and compare life cycles of plants and animals. 22
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TX.112.7 (5.7) Science Concepts: The student knows that matter has physical properties.

5.7. (A) The student is expected to classify matter based on its physical properties including magnetism, physical state, and the ability to conduct or insulate heat, electricity, and sound. 105
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5.7. (B) The student is expected to demonstrate that some mixtures maintain the physical properties of their ingredients. 37
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5.7. (C) The student is expected to identify changes that can occur in the physical properties of the ingredients of solutions such as dissolving sugar in water. 39
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5.7. (D) The student is expected to observe and measure characteristic properties of substances that remain constant such as boiling points and melting points. 24
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TX.112.7 (5.8) Science Concepts: The student knows that energy occurs in many forms.

5.8. (A) The student is expected to differentiate among forms of energy including light, heat, electrical, and solar energy. 220
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5.8. (B) The student is expected to identify and demonstrate everyday examples of how light is reflected, such as from tinted windows, and refracted, such as in cameras, telescopes, and eyeglasses. 108
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5.8. (C) The student is expected to demonstrate that electricity can flow in a circuit and can produce heat, light, sound, and magnetic effects. 144
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5.8. (D) The student is expected to verify that vibrating an object can produce sound. 89
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TX.112.7 (5.9) Science Concepts: The student knows that adaptations may increase the survival of members of a species.

5.9. (A) The student is expected to compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem. 307
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5.9. (B) The student is expected to analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism's unique niche in an ecosystem. 327
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5.9. (C) The student is expected to predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by an organism in an ecosystem. 307
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TX.112.7 (5.10) Science Concepts: The student knows that likenesses between offspring and parents can be inherited or learned.

5.10. (A) The student is expected to identify traits that are inherited from parent to offspring in plants and animals. 29
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5.10. (B) The student is expected to give examples of learned characteristics that result from the influence of the environment. 30
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TX.112.7 (5.11) Science Concepts: The student knows that certain past events affect present and future events.

5.11. (A) The student is expected to identify and observe actions that require time for changes to be measurable, including growth, erosion, dissolving, weathering, and flow. 289
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5.11. (B) The student is expected to draw conclusions about 'what happened before' using data such as from tree-growth rings and sedimentary rock sequences. 115
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5.11. (C) The student is expected to identify past events that led to the formation of the Earth's renewable, non-renewable, and inexhaustible resources. 132
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TX.112.7 (5.12) Science Concepts: The student knows that the natural world includes earth materials and objects in the sky.

5.12. (A) The student is expected to interpret how landforms are the result of a combination of constructive and destructive forces such as deposition of sediment and weathering. 197
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5.12. (B) The student is expected to describe processes responsible for the formation of coal, oil, gas, and minerals. 224
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5.12. (C) The student is expected to identify the physical characteristics of the Earth and compare them to the physical characteristics of the moon. 751
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5.12. (D) The student is expected to identify gravity as the force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun and the moon in orbit around the Earth. 795
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