All Science Units

Explore the full collection of PreK–8 Science unit plans featuring engaging, standards-aligned lessons that build curiosity, inquiry skills, and real-world understanding.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 5 Science): Earth Systems — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 5 unit connecting Earth systems, water distribution, and community actions through models and graphs to show how humans interact with and protect resources.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 5 Science): Engineering Water Solutions

Grade 5 engineering unit where students design, test, and improve water filtration or conservation solutions using data, fair tests, and the engineering design process.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 5 Science): Human Use of Earth’s Systems

Grade 5 unit where students research and explain how communities use science ideas to protect water, air, and land, creating action profiles with real examples.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 5 Science): Water Cycle Connections

Grade 5 unit modeling evaporation, condensation, and precipitation to show how water moves through Earth’s systems, connecting air, land, and living things.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 5 Science): Earth Materials & Weathering

Grade 5 unit investigating rocks, soil, weathering, and erosion to model how Earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere interact to shape land over time.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 5 Science): Weather, Atmosphere & Climate Basics

Grade 5 unit where students track sunlight, shadows, and temperature to uncover daily and seasonal sky patterns, connecting Sun’s motion to day/night and constellations.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 5 Science): Properties of Water

Grade 5 unit exploring how water’s unique properties shape landforms and support life by connecting Earth’s spheres and influencing where living things thrive.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 5 Science): Earth’s Water Sources

Grade 5 science unit where students graph and compare Earth’s water distribution—showing that almost all is ocean saltwater and only a tiny fraction is usable fresh water.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 5 Science): Earth’s Systems Overview

Grade 5 Earth systems unit where students model geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere interactions—showing how land, water, air, and living things connect.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 5 Science): Life Science — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 5 unit where students model plant growth from air and water, show sun’s energy flows to animals, and explain matter cycling in ecosystems daily.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 5 Science): Engineering for Ecosystems

Grade 5 unit using the engineering design process to create, test, and improve solutions that support ecosystems—like erosion control, filtration, or pollinator habitats.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 5 Science): Human Impacts on Ecosystems

Grade 5 unit researching how communities use science to protect ecosystems—reducing pollution, conserving resources, and supporting habitats and organisms.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 5 Science): Environmental Changes & Organisms

Grade 5 unit using food web models to show how environmental changes impact populations, disrupt ecosystem balance, and alter the cycling of matter.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 5 Science): Ecosystems & Energy Flow

Grade 5 unit modeling how matter cycles among plants, animals, decomposers, and environment while energy flows one-way from the sun through food webs and out as heat.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 5 Science): Decomposers & Nutrient Cycling

Grade 5 unit where students model how decomposers break down dead matter and waste, returning nutrients to soil, air, and water to keep matter cycling in ecosystems.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 5 Science): Food Chains & Food Webs

Grade 5 unit where students build food chains and food webs to model how matter cycles among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment in ecosystems.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade 5 Science): Plants: Inputs & Growth

Grade 5 unit where students use evidence, models, and CER writing to argue that plants get the materials for growth mainly from air and water—not soil.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 5 Science): Energy from the Sun

Grade 5 unit where students model how sunlight becomes energy in food, flowing from sun to plants to animals to power growth, repair, movement, and warmth.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 5 Science): Matter & Reactions — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 5 capstone science unit where students synthesize matter, mass conservation, properties, and reactions, then engineer and test a solution using fair tests and data.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 5 Science): Engineering with Matter

Grade 5 science engineering unit where students design, test, and improve prototypes using mixtures, dissolving, or reactions to solve real problems with fair tests and data.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 5 Science): Evidence of Chemical Change

Grade 5 science unit where students identify gas, color, temperature, and new solid evidence when substances mix to determine if chemical reactions formed new substances.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 5 Science): Chemical Reactions Basics

Grade 5 science unit where students mix substances, observe properties before and after, and use evidence like gas, temperature, and new solids to identify chemical reactions.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 5 Science): Heating & Cooling Matter

Grade 5 science unit where students measure and graph before-and-after weights during heating, cooling, and mixing to show the total weight of matter is conserved.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 5 Science): Mixtures & Solutions

Grade 5 science unit where students investigate how materials mix and separate—observing dissolving, floating, settling, and filtration—to identify substances by their properties.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 5 Science): States & Properties of Matter

Grade 5 science unit where students test and compare material properties—hardness, flexibility, luster, magnetism, conductivity, solubility—to identify unknown substances.