Indiana State Standards for Science: Grade 5

IN.5.1. The Nature of Science and Technology: Students work collaboratively to carry out investigations. They observe and make accurate measurements, increase their use of tools and instruments, record data in journals, and communicate results through chart, graph, written, and verbal forms. Students repeat investigations, explain inconsistencies, and design projects.

5.1.1. The Scientific View of the World: Recognize and describe that results of similar scientific investigations may turn out differently because of inconsistencies in methods, materials, and observations. 24
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5.1.2. Scientific Inquiry: Begin to evaluate the validity of claims based on the amount and quality of the evidence cited. 22
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5.1.3. The Scientific Enterprise: Explain that doing science involves many different kinds of work and engages men, women, and children of all ages and backgrounds. 22
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5.1.4. Technology and Science: Give examples of technology, such as telescopes, microscopes, and cameras, that enable scientists and others to observe things that are too small or too far away to be seen without them and to study the motion of objects that are moving very rapidly or are hardly moving. 11
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5.1.5. Technology and Science: Explain that technology extends the ability of people to make positive and/or negative changes in the world. 41
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5.1.6. Technology and Science: Explain how the solution to one problem, such as the use of pesticides in agriculture or the use of dumps for waste disposal, may create other problems. 41
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5.1.7. Technology and Science: Give examples of materials not present in nature, such as cloth, plastic, and concrete, that have become available because of science and technology. 11
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IN.5.2. Scientific Thinking: Students use a variety of skills and techniques when attempting to answer questions and solve problems. Students describe their observations accurately and clearly using numbers, words, and sketches, and are able to communicate their thinking to others. They compare, contrast, explain, and justify both information and numerical functions.

5.2.1. Computation and Estimation: Multiply and divide whole numbers mentally, on paper, and with a calculator. 13
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5.2.2. Computation and Estimation: Use appropriate fractions and decimals when solving problems. 13
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5.2.3. Manipulation and Observation: Choose appropriate common materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things. 13
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5.2.4. Manipulation and Observation: Keep a notebook to record observations and be able to distinguish inferences from actual observations. 22
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5.2.5. Manipulation and Observation: Use technology, such as calculators or spreadsheets, in determining area and volume from linear dimensions. Find area, volume, mass, time, and cost, and find the difference between two quantities of anything. 13
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5.2.6. Communication Skills: Write instructions that others can follow in carrying out a procedure. 11
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5.2.7. Communication Skills: Read and follow step-by-step instructions when learning new procedures. 11
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5.2.8. Critical Response Skills: Recognize when and describe that comparisons might not be accurate because some of the conditions are not kept the same. 11
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IN.5.3. The Physical Setting: Students continue to investigate changes of the Earth and sky. They explore, describe, and classify materials, motion, and energy.

5.3.1. The Universe: Explain that telescopes are used to magnify distant objects in the sky including the moon and the planets. 2
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5.3.2. The Universe: Observe and describe that stars are like the sun, some being smaller and some being larger, but they are so far away that they look like points of light. 7
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5.3.3. The Universe: Observe the stars and identify stars that are unusually bright and those that have unusual colors, such as reddish or bluish. 7
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5.3.4. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Investigate that when liquid water disappears it turns into a gas (vapor) mixed into the air and can reappear as a liquid when cooled or as a solid if cooled below the freezing point of water. 1
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5.3.5. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Observe and explain that clouds and fog are made of tiny droplets of water. 27
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5.3.6. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Demonstrate that things on or near the Earth are pulled toward it by the Earth's gravity. 3
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5.3.7. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Describe that, like all planets and stars, the Earth is approximately spherical in shape. 3
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5.3.8. Matter and Energy: Investigate, observe, and describe that heating and cooling cause changes in the properties of materials, such as water turning into steam by boiling and water turning into ice by freezing. Notice that many kinds of changes occur faster at higher temperatures. 7
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5.3.9. Matter and Energy: Investigate, observe, and describe that when warmer things are put with cooler ones, the warm ones lose heat and the cool ones gain it until they are all at the same temperature. Demonstrate that a warmer object can warm a cooler one by contact or at a distance. 17
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5.3.10. Matter and Energy: Investigate that some materials conduct heat much better than others, and poor conductors can reduce heat loss. 17
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5.3.11. Forces of Nature: Investigate and describe that changes in speed or direction of motion of an object are caused by forces. Understand that the greater the force, the greater the change in motion and the more massive an object, the less effect a given force will have. 6
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5.3.12. Forces of Nature: Explain that objects move at different rates, with some moving very slowly and some moving too quickly for people to see them. 6
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5.3.13. Forces of Nature: Demonstrate that the Earth's gravity pulls any object toward it without touching it. 2
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IN.5.4. The Living Environment: Students learn about an increasing variety of organisms (familiar, exotic, fossil, and microscopic). They use appropriate tools in identifying similarities and differences among these organisms. Students explore how organisms satisfy their needs in their environments.

5.4.1. Diversity of Life: Explain that for offspring to resemble their parents there must be a reliable way to transfer information from one generation to the next. 4
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5.4.2. Diversity of Life: Observe and describe that some living things consist of a single cell that needs food, water, air, a way to dispose of waste, and an environment in which to live. 7
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5.4.3. Diversity of Life: Observe and explain that some organisms are made of a collection of similar cells that benefit from cooperating. Explain that some organisms' cells, such as human nerve cells and muscle cells, vary greatly in appearance and perform very different roles in the organism. 53
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5.4.4. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Explain that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some do not survive as well, and some cannot survive at all. 53
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5.4.5. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Explain how changes in an organism's habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful. 31
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5.4.6. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Recognize and explain that most microorganisms do not cause disease and many are beneficial. 2
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5.4.7. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Explain that living things, such as plants and animals, differ in their characteristics, and that sometimes these differences can give members of these groups (plants and animals) an advantage in surviving and reproducing. 7
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5.4.8. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Observe that and describe how fossils can be compared to one another and to living organisms according to their similarities and differences. 14
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5.4.9. Human Identity: Explain that like other animals, human beings have body systems. 37
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IN.5.5. The Mathematical World: Students apply mathematics in scientific contexts. They make more precise and varied measurements in gathering data. Their geometric descriptions of objects are comprehensive, and their graphing demonstrates specific connections. They identify questions that can be answered by data distribution, i.e. 'Where is the middle?' and their supporting of claims or answers with reasons and analogies becomes important.

5.5.1. Numbers: Make precise and varied measurements and specify the appropriate units.

5.5.2. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Show that mathematical statements using symbols may be true only when the symbols are replaced by certain numbers. 13
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5.5.3. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Classify objects in terms of simple figures and solids. 13
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5.5.4. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Compare shapes in terms of concepts, such as parallel and perpendicular, congruence and symmetry. 13
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5.5.5. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Demonstrate that areas of irregular shapes can be found by dividing them into squares and triangles. 13
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5.5.6. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Describe and use drawings to show shapes and compare locations of things very different in size. 13
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5.5.7. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Explain that predictions can be based on what is known about the past, assuming that conditions are similar. 11
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5.5.8. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Realize and explain that predictions may be more accurate if they are based on large collections of objects or events. 11
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5.5.9. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Show how spreading data out on a number line helps to see what the extremes are, where they pile up, and where the gaps are. 11
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5.5.10. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Explain the danger in using only a portion of the data collected to describe the whole. 11
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IN.5.6. Common Themes: Students work with an increasing variety of systems and begin to modify parts in systems and models and notice the changes that result.

5.6.1. Systems: Recognize and describe that systems contain objects as well as processes that interact with each other. 88
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5.6.2. Models and Scale: Demonstrate how geometric figures, number sequences, graphs, diagrams, sketches, number lines, maps, and stories can be used to represent objects, events, and processes in the real world, although such representation can never be exact in every detail. 12
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5.6.3. Models and Scale: Recognize and describe that almost anything has limits on how big or small it can be. 13
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5.6.4. Constancy and Change: Investigate, observe, and describe that things change in steady, repetitive, or irregular ways, such as toy cars continuing in the same direction and air temperature reaching a high or low value. Note that the best way to tell which kinds of change are happening is to make a table or a graph of measurements. 9
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