Grade 5 Science Units

Discover Grade 5 Science unit plans with standards-aligned lessons that build Earth, physical, and life science understanding through inquiry and hands-on STEM learning.

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Grade 5 Science Units

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.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 5 Science): Particles Too Small to See

Matter is made of tiny invisible particles—students model solids, liquids, gases, dissolving, and smells spreading to explain real-world phenomena in Grade 5 science.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 5 Science): Science Skills & Investigation Routines

Grade 5 unit where students learn lab safety, measurement, variables, and fair testing—building science skills to collect, graph, and explain reliable investigation data.