This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 5th grade Science content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 5th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

This video clip is meant to serve as a writing or discussion prompt during a unit on forces and motion. This can be used at varied grade levels, with the expectation that student responses would be more complex in higher grade levels.

This brief video clip demonstrates how to create a hovercraft from simple materials. Toward the end of the clip, the students in the video explains the science behind the hovercraft's motion (reduced friction). Students are encouraged to continue the experimentation on their own by changing variables in the design of the hovercraft.

Students design and build a balloon-powered car to better understand the science ideas related to rocket propulsion. They use ideas of mass and force to work out ways to improve the distance traveled by the car.

This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Choke Up on That Bat!" The teacher guide provides background content, information about misconceptions related to the topic, and explanations of demonstrations and activities.This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of the forces and factors such as mass and torque that are involved with the swing of a baseball bat.

This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of the forces and factors such as mass and torque that are involved with the swing of a baseball bat.

This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Choke Up on That Bat!" This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of the forces and factors such as mass and torque that are involved with the swing of a baseball bat.

This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Choke Up on That Bat!" This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of the forces and factors such as mass and torque that are involved with the swing of a baseball bat. The question poster provides a series of questions that can be used to assess students' understanding of the poster content.

This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Choke Up on That Bat!" This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of the forces and factors such as mass and torque that are involved with the swing of a baseball bat. The tutorial provides the same illustrations and descriptions as the poster, in a virtual format.

In this activity students design and make a foam rocket and investigate its flight path.

In this activity, students explore how two cylinders that look the same may roll down a hill at different rates.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students explore how forces affect motion and design their own experiment to test the effects of force.

In this lesson, students explore various factors that affect the bounce of height of different balls, especially as related to the material properties of the balls.

In this lesson, students will discover the results of force applied to an object using balls of varying weights.

This is a 5th grade unit for Science.  This unit helps students develop their understanding of force, motion, and the relationship between them as well as how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects. 

In this lesson, students use marbles, a paer cup, and string to learn about the effect of friction on motion. Students work in small groups to pull their cups across a variety of different surfaces and record their results on a lab sheet. A friction definition handout, a diagram of the cup and string apparatus, and the lab recording sheet are included with this lesson as well as two websites for extensions.

Students will learn about the water cycle, watersheds, and specifically, the watershed that feeds Springfield, Oregon. After analyzing drought maps, reading news reports, and seeing images and videos, students will realize that drought is a real life concern. Students, as concerned citizens, will create a water collection device, at first on a small scale, and then a true to life water collection system to help re- purpose rainwater in our garden area.

On this interactive webpage, students read a short article about the effect that incline has on the force of gravity. Learners are asked to look at pictures of inclines of varying degrees and answer questions about how the incline affects the pull of gravity on an object going up or down.

In this activity, students investigate how different factors such as strength of force and mass of objects affect motion.