Engage your class in a selection of grade-specific, standards-based activities! All activities and lessons were carefully crafted with an eye towards Next Generation Science Standards for Fifth Grade students.
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Inspire your 5th grade scientists to think deeply about how matter and energy moves among producers, consumers and decomposers as they explore unique ecosystems and organisms on this virtual field trip to the California Science Center. Students will use models and experiment at home to develop an understanding that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water and the energy in animals’ food was once energy from the sun.
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Invite animal ambassadors from the California Science Center to visit your classroom virtually to explore how energy moves in an ecosystem.
Reservations for the 2022-23 school year will be available soon. Please call 213-744-2019 beginning September 22 to reserve your Live Virtual Program!
Join our educators to discover how organisms in the California Science Center’s Kelp Forest and the Rose Garden fuel themselves to survive.
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In this activity, students will germinate a seed in order to generate and record observable data. Students will use this data as evidence to engage in argument about the sources of energy and matter that a plant needs to grow and survive.
Fifth grade scientists will not believe what they are seeing with their very own eyes on this virtual field trip. As they explore the world of particles that are too small to be seen, scientists will learn how to explain and model what’s happening. Science is more than meets the eye.
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Invite our educators to visit your classroom virtually to explore air particles and how they behave and find ways to prove that particles are all around us even when we can’t see them!
Reservations for the 2022-23 school year will be available soon. Please call 213-744-2019 beginning September 22 to reserve your Live Virtual Program!
Join our educators as they investigate the difference between physical and chemical reactions in order to better understand mixtures.
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Students will conduct an ink chromatography experiment, and then create their own model to explain what happens to a mixture of ink when its particles are separated.
