5th Grade Earth Sciences Activities

Engage your students with this comprehensive Solar and Lunar Eclipse Activity Set, designed to help them have a basic understanding of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses. This set includes a variety of activities suitable for students in grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and even 6.

This activity set includes five different activities that challenge students to learn new vocabulary, facts, and perspectives related to the Solar and Lunar eclipses.

The activities are:

• 3 Lunar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passages and Fun Facts: The passages include multiple-choice questions, written response questions, and answer keys
• 4 Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passages and Fun Facts: The passages include multiple-choice questions, written response questions, and answer keys
• 2 Word Search Puzzles: Find hidden words related to the Solar and Lunar eclipses in a grid of letters. The words can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or backward.
• 2 Crossword Puzzles: Solve clues to fill in the crossword puzzle with words related to the Solar and Lunar Eclipses.
• 2 Word Scrambles: Unscramble words related to the Solar and Lunar eclipses and write them in the correct spaces.
• 2 Vocabulary Passages: Read two short passages about the Solar and Lunar eclipses and fill in the blank spaces with the correct words from the vocabulary list. The passages introduce some important terms and concepts related to these eclipses.

You can use this product as a whole-class activity, homework assignment, small group, or independent activity on the Solar and Lunar Eclipse.

Each activity comes with an answer key for teachers and allows students to check their work independently.

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Spare some time in your class? How about this FUN & DIVERSE TASK CARDS BUNDLE!

How to Use This Resource?

• Whole Class Game: Scoot! Get your students moving with a fun game of Scoot. Place the task cards around the classroom and have students rotate, answering the question at each station before moving on.
• Fast Finishers' Challenge: Challenge early finishers to tackle these task cards as an enriching activity to solidify their understanding.
• Scientific Scavenger Hunt: Turn your classroom or schoolyard into a scientific scavenger hunt! Hide the task cards around the designated area and have students hunt for them, answering the questions they find.
• Science Jenga! Add a scientific twist to the classic game of Jenga! Number the Jenga blocks and assign each number to a specific task card. When a player pulls a block, another player reads the corresponding card and the first player answers the question.
• Formative Assessments: Use these task cards as quick quizzes or formative assessments to gauge student understanding of various science concepts.
• Interactive Whiteboard Fun: Project the task cards on your interactive whiteboard and have students brainstorm answers together as a class.

Are you looking for a fun and motivating lesson for students to learn the physical features and landforms of Africa? Providing students with this hands-on activity will get them excited and give them the drive and desire to learn. Students will dig in as you have them research physical features and landforms, then build a clay model of Africa.

This higher-level learning activity will require them to think about and compare the size, shape & distance of landforms as one would when examining a map projection. Each student will become a team player as they work cooperatively to reach their goal.

This lesson plan includes everything you need:

• Teacher instructions
• Student handouts
• Evaluations
• A grading rubric

☑ For secondary, middle school and high school students

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Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?

• This fifth-grade earth science unit fits the bill! We have researched each standard, so nothing goes untaught.
• It comes with:

- 8 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.

• Lesson 1 - What is the Geosphere?
• Lesson 2 - What is the Biosphere?
• Lesson 3 - What is the Hydrosphere?
• Lesson 4 - What is the Atmosphere?
• Lesson 5 - Interactions Among the Four Spheres
• Lesson 6 - Making a Model that Shows the Interaction Between Two of the Spheres
• Lesson 7 - How Does Human Activity Affect the Environment?
• Lesson 8 - What are People Doing to Try to Protect Our Environment/

Included within this resource are:

• the standards
• tips and suggestions
• suggested YouTube Videos and books
• Environmental Scientist Poster
• Posters of the Hydrosphere and a Glacier
• "I can" statement cards
• Short Readings about Each of the Spheres
• Reading Passages about Agriculture and Industry
• Graphic Organizers
• Task Cards of Different Environmental Issues (to give students options for research)
• Final Project Guidelines and Rubrics
• 9 colorful essential vocabulary cards with graphics and definitions

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⭐ Fifth Grade NGSS 5-LS1-1: Life Science Unit

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Are you looking to engage your students with a hands-on, interactive unit for Earth Science? This rock cycle unit includes everything you need to nurture and excitement for Earth Science and covers all your standards related to the cycle of rocks and rock formation.

You’ll love this 5-day unit because it is packed full of the resources you need for investigating the rock cycle. You’ll find detailed lesson plans, web-based investigations, a rock cycle simulation,  a reading passage about the rock cylce, an interactive science notebook page, and a rock cycle game.

If you’re teaching in an inquiry-based classroom, you’ll be pleased to find this unit is structured to follow the inquiry cycle-tuning in, finding out, sorting out, going further, and drawing conclusions.

A peek inside the Rock Cylce unit

• video or reading response
• crayon rock simulation
• web-based interactive lesson
• rock cycle reading passage 
• rock cycle interactive science notebook page
• ride the rock cycle game

Your students will love this hands-on classifying rock cycle unit from the rock cycle simulation to the web investigation. They’ll also be eager to show off their learning with the culminating rock cylcle game.

You’ll love how easy it is to plan and prep! Make a few copies gather a few supplies, and your rock cycle unit planning is done!

Extend your rocks and minerals with one of these complimentary units: 

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Identifying Minerals Earth Science Unit

Types of Rocks Earth Science Unit

Weathering Erosion and Deposition Earth Science Unit

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Color By Number features cute and adorable coloring page of Back to school . These fun coloring pages will help children master their numbers and improve their manual dexterity through coloring. Little ones will enjoy learning the numbers and coloring the pictures. It also helps in developing fine motor skills, counting, number recognition, eye-hand coordination and improves pen controls.

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Force, Motion, & Energy: card sorts 1-2 (18 terms)

Includes a set of 10 questions with separate answer key. Written at a 9th grade level.

Includes 1 set for each of the 7 episodes of season 2 of Blue Planet.

This product includes vocabulary, notes, and review for students that are learning about the Solar System.

This product on the Solar System covers the following: energy from the sun and how it is received, how the sun warms up the land and water, how plants use energy to make food, how the uneven heating of the Earth causes wind, the water cycle and how the sun, water evaporating, water vapor, and rain make up the water cycle, photosynthesis, how plants store energy, how stored energy is passed onto animals, the Sun is a star, how the Sun makes its own light, what planets are, the path that Earth takes to travel around the Sun is called an orbit, where the Sun is located in the Solar System, students will be provided with a mnemonic device to help remember the names of the planets, the Sun, Moon and Earth - their diameter, mass, and information about the surface, inner planets - Earth, Mercury, Venus, and Mars and how they are similar and different from one another, outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - their diameter, mass, rings and moons, and how they are called the gas giants, dwarf planet - Pluto and facts about Pluto, when it was discovered and became the 9th planet and when it was reclassified, a fact chart about each of the 8 planets are included and information regarding each of the 5 categories are reviewed about each planet - composition of atmosphere, average temperature, how many pounds a 65lb. person would weight on each planet, how many Earth days each planet speeds around the Sun, and an interesting fact about each planet, and students will use a key to label the planets that were learned.

Throughout the product, students will answer comprehension questions, fill in the blank questions when provided with a key, review of the 8 planets where students will fill in the blanks using the notes that are included in this product, multiple choice questions, and will label diagrams to ensure comprehension as they are learning about the Solar System.

At the end of this product, students will choose a planet to research and will answer questions included in the product such as if the planet is hot or cold, when the planet was discovered, what color the planet is, the composition of the atmosphere, the average temperature, interesting facts that were learned, etc.

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Discover Canada's Indigenous hunting and fishing traditions with this social studies resource. Learn about 10 animals and their habitats and how they were hunted for and fished for. Students will gain insight into ecology and Indigenous culture.

Page 1-2: Lesson Plan
Page 3: Indigenous Hunting and Fishing handout
Page 4: Importance of Hunting and Fishing to Indigenous peoples
Page 5-9: Animal cards (caribou, bison, moose, seal, salmon, trout, beaver, duck, rabbit, ptarmigan)
Page 10: Mapping activity

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This bundle of Choice Boards is a MUST HAVE if you are teaching Distance Learning! This bundle comes with pre-made choice boards with over 117 prompts/choices! This resource includes Choice Boards for the subjects of: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Physical Movement, Social-Emotional Learning, Brain Breaks, and a "Get to Know You" Choice Board for the beginning of the year. This bundle is ideal for grades 2, 3, and 4.

These activities were created for Distance Learning opportunities but it can also be used in class. The choices are excellent for a wide array of student learning styles that can be easily modified. All teachers have to do is email, post, upload, or share this PDF with students and tell them how many prompts they should complete. Distance Learning made EASY!

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North Carolina 5th Grade Science Teachers, this is for you! This bundle includes 6 Crossword Puzzles aligned with the new 2023 NC Standard Course of Study Science Standards (implemented Fall 2024)! These are perfect for practicing all of those tricky vocabulary words. Use as morning work, early finisher work or homework... These are even great for sub plan packets! Answer Keys included!

Puzzle Topics and Vocabulary Words included:

• Weather

  • Weather, Climate, Hurricane, Forecast, Cloud, Gulfstream, Meteorologist, Season, Precipitation, Condensation, Evaporation, Transpiration, Anemometer, Hygrometer, Wind Vane, Thermometer, Rain Gauge, Barometer

• Ecosystems

  • Producer, Consumer, Decomposer, Abiotic, Biotic, Ecosystem, Food Chain, Food Web, Population, Habitat, Aquatic, Terrestrial, Estuary, Ocean, Lake, Pond, Grassland, Forest

• Human Body Systems

  • Cell, Tissue, Organ, Tissue, Organ System, Organism, Skeletal, Muscular, Circulatory, Respiratory, Digestive, Nervous, Voluntary, Involuntary, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

• Heredity and Genetics

  • Genetics, Heredity, Trait, Gene, Inherited Traits, Acquired Traits, Instinct, Learned Behavior, Generations, Offspring

• Forces and Motion

  • Force, Motion, Friction, Gravity, Speed, Distance, Balanced Forces, Unbalanced Forces, Mass, Increasing, Decreasing

• Properties of Matter

  • Matter, Mass, Solid, Liquid, Gas, Chemical Change, Physical Change, Weight, Conductor, Insulator, Dissolve

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Need a fun introduction activity or wrap-up activity to a plate tectonic lesson? Task cards are a great way to engage students in the learning process.

This set includes 24 task cards addressing the Pangaea Theory, moving boundaries, major U.S. faults, Mount St. Helen's eruption, Tsunamis, continental drift, layers of the earth and more.

Includes:

24 task cards

Instructions

Answers

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Get you students moving around the room. They often learn better when they are moving, collaborating and having fun.

With these NGSS lessons, students will learn about all four of the Earth's spheres and how the spheres interact with each other.

This is part of our MS-ESS2--1 and 5-ESS2-2 & 5-ESS3-1 unit and our MS-ESS3 Bundle: Earth and Human Activity.

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Are you looking to engage your students with a hands-on, interactive unit for  Earth Science? This distinguishing between rocks and minerals unit includes everything you need to nurture an excitement for Earth Science and covers all your standards related to distinguishing the difference between rocks and minerals. 

You’ll love this 5-day unit because it is packed full of the resources you need for introducing the difference between rocks and minerals. You’ll find a detailed lesson plan, interactive lab instructions, a student lab report, a reading passage about rocks and minerals, an interactive science notebook page, and a rocks vs. minerals craft.

If you’re teaching in an inquiry-based classroom, you’ll be pleased to find this unit is structured to follow the inquiry cycle-tuning in, finding out, sorting out, going further, and drawing conclusions.

A Peek Inside the Distinguishing Between Rocks and Minerals Unit:

• create a classifying system to distinguish between rocks and minerals
•  make mock rocks
• be a geologist for a day
• take apart rocks
• rocks vs. minerals reading passage
• rocks vs. minerals interactive science notebook page
• make a rock vs. mineral mobile

Your students will love the hands-on rocks vs. minerals science labs from making their own rocks to taking rocks apart. They’ll also be eager to show off their learning with the culminating rocks vs. minerals craft activity.

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Matter & Energy: card sorts 1-3 (27 terms)

In this product, students will learn how traits are passed through sexual and asexual reproduction, notes are adapted to meet students individual learning needs, review questions are asked throughout the product, and an adaptation project template is included in this product.

The following vocabulary words: asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, dominate, hybrid, recessive, selective breeding, adaptation, inbreeding, regeneration, adaptations – camouflage, warning coloration, and mimicry.

Students will learn about how traits are passed through the adapted notes, review, and adaptations project template that are included in this product. Students will also learn the following, what asexual reproduction is, examples of organisms that are produced asexually, a review of what binary fission and budding are, what happens in these two processes, and how it is the simplest type of asexual reproduction. Students will learn there some organisms use asexual reproduction part of the time. Organisms such as fungi, plants, and yeast can go between asexual and sexual reproduction. Students will learn how these organisms go between both asexual and sexual reproduction. Students will learn about regeneration and are provided with examples on how this process works, sexual reproduction in organisms – plants and animals, students will learn about the male and female parts of a flowering plant and how what the process of sexual reproduction is in a plant, dominant and recessive genes are reviewed, and students will be provided with examples when looking at different colored flowers and how and why the offspring would be a specific color, when reviewing sexual reproduction in flowers, students will also learn that a fertilized egg contains DNA from both parents, selective breeding, hybrid, and inbreeding are reviewed and examples are provided to ensure comprehension. Adaptations will be covered in this lesson as well and will cover – camouflage, warning coloration, and mimicry.

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This 7 page salmon lesson includes the salmon life cycle, ocean conservation and salmon in First Nations culture. Salmon life cycle diagram and activity included. 3 salmon activities within this salmon life cycle and salmon lesson.

Page 1: Lesson plan

Page 2: The Deep Connection to Salmon (handout)

Page 3: The Importance of Salmon (handout)

Page 4: Traditional Fishing Techniques (handout)

Page 5: The Arrival of the Europeans, Salmon Today (handout)

Page 6: Indigenous Conservation, Salmon Interconnectedness (handout)

Page 7: Salmon Life Cycle (handout)

Page 8: Salmon Life Cycle diagram (handout)

Page 9: Salmon Life Cycle (activity)

Page 10: Salmon Crossword Puzzle
Page 11: Salmon Crossword Puzzle - answer key)

Page 12: Salmon Creative Writing activity

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North Carolina 5th Grade Science Teachers, this is for you! This bundle includes 6 Color by Code Vocabulary Activities aligned with the new 2023 NC Standard Course of Study Science Standards (implemented Fall 2024)! These engaging activities are perfect for practicing all of those tricky vocabulary words. Use as morning work, early finisher work or homework... These are even great for sub plan packets! Answer Keys included!

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• Weather

  • Weather, Climate, Hurricane, Cloud, Season, Precipitation, Condensation, Evaporation, Transpiration, Anemometer, Hygrometer, Wind Vane, Thermometer, Rain Gauge, Barometer

• Ecosystems

  • Producer, Consumer, Decomposer, Abiotic, Biotic, Ecosystem, Food Chain, Food Web, Population, Habitat, Aquatic, Terrestrial, Community

• Human Body Systems

  • Cell, Tissue, Organ, Tissue, Organ System, Organism, Skeletal, Muscular, Circulatory, Respiratory, Digestive, Nervous, Voluntary, Involuntary

• Heredity and Genetics

  • Genetics, Heredity, Trait, Gene, Inherited Trait, Acquired Trait, Instinct, Learned Behavior, Generations, Offspring

• Forces and Motion

  • Force, Motion, Friction, Gravity, Speed, Distance, Mass, Direction

• Properties of Matter

  • Matter, Mass, Chemical Change, Physical Change, Weight, Conductor, Insulator, Dissolve, Conservation

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Are you looking to engage your students with a hands-on, interactive unit for  Earth Science? This identifying minerals unit includes everything you need to nurture and excitement for Earth Science and covers all your standards related to identifying minerals. 

You’ll love this 5-day unit because it is packed full of the resources you need for teaching students to identify minerals. You’ll find detailed lesson plans, interactive lab instructions, a student lab report, a reading passage about rocks and minerals, an interactive science notebook page, and games with minerals.

If you’re teaching in an inquiry-based classroom, you’ll be pleased to find this unit is structured to follow the inquiry cycle-tuning in, finding out, sorting out, going further, and drawing conclusions.

A Peek Inside the Identifying Minerals earth science unit:

• describing minerals and properties
• scratch test lab
• guess my rule
• gemstone bar graph
• all about minerals reading passage
• all about minerals interactive science notebook page
• make mineral trading cards

Your students will love this hands-on identifying minerals unit from the identification lab to the graphing. They’ll also be eager to show off their learning with the culminating mineral trading card activity.

You’ll love how easy it is to plan and prep! Make a few copies gather a few supplies, and your identifying minerals unit planning is done!

Extend your rocks and minerals with one of these complimentary units: 

Distinguishing Between Rocks and Minerals Earth Science Unit

Types of Rocks Earth Science Unit

Rock Cycle Earth Science Unit

Weathering Erosion and Deposition Earth Science Unit

Rocks and Minerals Cooperative Review Activities and Test

Or save time and money with the whole bundle:

Rocks and Minerals - Earth Science Bundle - Rocks and Minerals Labs & Activities

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Other Science Resources:

Thermal Energy and Heat Interactive Science Labs

Electricity Interactive Science Labs for Electrical Energy

Life Science Food Chain Sequence Game

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