🔬 5th Grade Science · Unit 6
Protecting Earth
16 short narrated lessons in 3 chapters, each with pictures, a quiz with a hint and a second try, and an explanation for every answer.
Standards: 5-ESS3-1 3-5-ETS1-1 3-5-ETS1-2 3-5-ETS1-3
What your child will learn
People change the Earth
- Using LandExplain how farming, building and mining change land and habitats.
- Using WaterDescribe how people's use of water can reduce and pollute water supplies.
- Air and the AtmosphereExplain how burning fuels affects air quality and the atmosphere.
- Waste and TrashDescribe how trash and plastic harm land, oceans and living things.
- How People Change the Earth: Review ReviewReview ways human activities affect Earth's land, water, air and living things.
Communities protect resources
- Reduce, Reuse, RecycleDescribe how reducing, reusing and recycling conserves resources.
- Keeping Water CleanGive examples of how communities keep water clean and use less of it.
- Power from Wind and SunExplain how using wind and solar power can protect the atmosphere.
- Parks and PreservesDescribe how protecting land helps wildlife and ecosystems.
- Communities Protect Earth: Review ReviewReview ways communities use science ideas to protect Earth's resources and environment.
Engineering for the environment
- Defining the ProblemDefine an environmental problem with clear criteria and constraints.
- Many Possible SolutionsGenerate and compare several solutions to an environmental problem.
- Testing a Water FilterPlan fair tests to find which water filter design works best.
- Making a Design BetterUse test results to identify failure points and improve a design.
- Engineering for Earth: Review ReviewReview how engineers define problems, compare solutions and test designs to protect the environment.
- Unit 6 Test: Protecting EarthShow what you learned in the whole unit (People change the Earth, Communities protect resources, Engineering for the environment) by answering mixed questions.
Try a question from this unit
From the lesson “Using Land”
What is a habitat?
Show the answer
A natural home for a plant or animal. A habitat is the natural home where a plant or animal finds what it needs.
Hint kids see after a wrong try: “It gives food, water and shelter.”
Key words
- habitat
- pollution
- air quality
- waste
- recycle
- conserve
- water treatment
- renewable
- preserve
- criteria
- constraints
- solution
- filter
- fair test
- failure point
- improve
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