Grade 5 Science
Study Bibles 26
Welcome: how this course works
Welcome to Grade 5 Science, a free course from the PGAMO Free K–12 School built on Core Knowledge Science.
How each lesson works
- The Big Question — share it first; the whole lesson works toward answering it.
- Teacher’s lesson plan — the Teacher Guide’s steps, materials and timing. Many lessons are hands-on investigations or demonstrations with things you have at home.
- Words to know — go over the new science words.
- Read — when the lesson has a Student Reader chapter, its pages are right in the lesson, with a text version too.
- Talk it over — questions to ask, with answers for the teacher hidden under each one.
- Activity pages — print and complete them.
- Each unit ends with a review and the unit’s own printable assessment, then a short words quiz.
Most families do two or three lessons a week — about 30 minutes each. This course has 79 lessons in 6 units, which fills a school year at that pace.
The units
- Unit 1: Investigating Matter — 13 lessons and a quiz
- Unit 2: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems — 16 lessons and a quiz
- Unit 3: Modeling Earth’s Systems — 13 lessons and a quiz
- Unit 4: Protecting Earth’s Resources — 15 lessons and a quiz
- Unit 5: Astronomy: Space Systems — 15 lessons and a quiz
- Unit 6: Human Hormones and Reproduction — 7 lessons and a quiz
For parents: This unit covers puberty and how humans reproduce, as part of the Core Knowledge health strand. Look it over first and teach it when it suits your family — or skip it.
Study offline
Each unit has a printable study pack (lesson guide, words, questions with answers, activities and the quiz with its answer key) and the official Student Reader and Teacher Guide. Download them once and teach without the internet.
Unit 1: Investigating Matter
Unit 2: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
Unit 3: Modeling Earth’s Systems
Unit 4: Protecting Earth’s Resources
Unit 5: Astronomy: Space Systems
Unit 6: Human Hormones and Reproduction
This course is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation (www.coreknowledge.org) made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. PGAMO added the lesson pages, study packs and quizzes layout, and shares them under the same license. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Core Knowledge Science. Free for everyone — this course may never be sold.