Science Curriculum

5th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Fifth grade students will evaluate the effects of patterns on processes or objects.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.5.3 Students will investigate and describe the flow of energy through an ecosystem and verify the cause and effect relationship among interdependent organisms within food chains and food webs.

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Standard(s)
  SC.5.3.1 Use various sources/models to verify the sun as the source of all energy in a food chain. (Including the process of photosynthesis.) 5-PS3-1
  SC.5.3.2 Relate plant growth and survival to sun, air, and water. 5-LS1-1
  SC.5.3.3 Define producer, consumer, and decomposer and their role within an environment.  
  SC.5.3.4 Illustrate the cause and effect relationship of interdependent organisms within a food chain. (producers, consumers, decomposers) 5-LS2-1
  SC.5.3.5 Characterize the relationships among organisms (producers, consumers, and decomposers) within a food web explain how they relate to the success of an ecosystem. 5-LS2-1
  SC.5.3.6 Construct a model to describe the movement of matter (carbon, water, nutrients) among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.  

Academic Vocabulary: model, characterize, illustrate, cause & effect

Content Vocabulary: photosynthesis, producers, consumers, decomposers, food web, food chain, carbon, water, matter, dependent, interdependent, organism, ecosystem, nutrients