NCES.5.E.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes
Standard: Understand weather patterns and phenomena, making connections to the weather in a particular place and time.
NCES.5.E.1.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes
Standard: Compare daily and seasonal changes in weather conditions (including wind speed and direction, precipitation, and temperature) and patterns.
NCES.5.E.1.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes
Standard: Predict upcoming weather events from weather data collected through observation and measurements.
NCES.5.E.1.3
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes
Standard: Explain how global patterns such as the jet stream and water currents influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
NCES.5.L.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms
Standard: Understand how structures and systems of organisms (to include the human body) perform functions necessary for life.
NCES.5.L.1.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms
Standard: Explain why some organisms are capable of surviving as a single cell while others require many cells that are specialized to survive.
NCES.5.L.1.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms
Standard: Compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, and cardiovascular) in terms of their functions necessary for life.
NCES.5.L.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Ecosystems
Standard: Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.
NCES.5.L.2.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Ecosystems
Standard: Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands).
NCES.5.L.2.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Ecosystems
Standard: Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors).
NCES.5.L.2.3
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Ecosystems
Standard: Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem.
NCES.5.L.3
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics
Standard: Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism.
NCES.5.L.3.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics
Standard: Explain why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism.
NCES.5.L.3.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics
Standard: Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not.
NCES.5.P.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Forces and Motion
Standard: Understand force, motion and the relationship between them.
NCES.5.P.1.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Forces and Motion
Standard: Explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.
NCES.5.P.1.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Forces and Motion
Standard: Infer the motion of objects in terms of how far they travel in a certain amount of time and the direction in which they travel.
NCES.5.P.1.3
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Forces and Motion
Standard: Illustrate the motion of an object using a graph to show a change in position over a period of time.
NCES.5.P.1.4
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Forces and Motion
Standard: Predict the effect of a given force or a change in mass on the motion of an object.
NCES.5.P.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change
Standard: Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur.
NCES.5.P.2.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change
Standard: Explain how the sun's energy impacts the processes of the water cycle (including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation and runoff).
NCES.5.P.2.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change
Standard: Compare the weight of an object to the sum of the weight of its parts before and after an interaction.
NCES.5.P.2.3
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change
Standard: Summarize properties of original materials, and the new material(s) formed, to demonstrate that a change has occurred.
NCES.5.P.3
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer
Standard: Explain how the properties of some materials change as a result of heating and cooling.
NCES.5.P.3.1
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer
Standard: Explain the effects of the transfer of heat (either by direct contact or at a distance) that occurs between objects at different temperatures. (conduction, convection or radiation).
NCES.5.P.3.2
North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer
Standard: Explain how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications.