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Grade 05 Science - EC: S5.B.3.2.1

Grade 05 Science - EC: S5.B.3.2.1

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

5th Grade

Course, Subject

Science

Activities

  1. Break down the vocabulary term “fossil fuel” into 2 words: fossil and fuel. Using background information, provide a definition for each word individually, and then combined.

Fossil: ___________________________________________________________________
Fuel: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____________________________________________________________________
Fossil fuel: ________________________________________________________________

  1. Match the following fossil fuel to how it is produced.

 

  1. Make a T-chart with the following headings: renewable and nonrenewable. Working with a partner brainstorm all the things you can renew, and things you cannot renew. If you are stuck, synonyms for the word renew are: resume, return to, take up again, come back to, begin again, start again, restart, continue (with), carry on (with)
  1. Label the following as renewable or nonrenewable.
    1. Trees/plants
    2. Coal
    3. Air/wind
    4. Water
    5. Petroleum/oil
    6. Natural gas
    7. Sun

  2. When you “alternate” something you place or do (different things) so that one follows the other in a repeated series. Some synonyms for alternate are change or rotate. When scientists refer to alternative fuel, what do you think they mean?
  1. Fossil fuels take thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years to produce. What problems do you think may occur if humans use them all up? Write a short response, 4-6 sentences.

  2. Match the alternative energy to its source. Then give a pro and a con for each alternative energy type.

  1. The United States gets 84% of its total energy from oil, coal, and natural gas, all of which are fossil fuels. We depend on fossil fuels to heat our homes, run our vehicles, power industry and manufacturing, and provide us with electricity.  Keep a journal for 3 days. Record the ways you use renewable and nonrenewable resources in your life. For each day you must have at least 5 resources listed.
    For example:
    • you wake up and brush your teethà How did the water get to you?
    • the bus takes you to school à How is the bus running? What type of energy does it run on?
    • you eat an apple for snack à Where did the apple come from?
  1. Given a teacher provided book or website, research alternative energy sources including wind, hydro, tidal, geothermal and solar. After your research, write a 2 paragraph piece explaining where the alternative energies are most efficient and why.
  1. Alternative energies are replacing nonrenewable fuels slowly.
    Task: Write a letter to the principal/superintendent of the school with suggestions about how they can increase the use of alternative energies in the school. Be sure to include as many facts and benefits as you can about alternative fuels.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Student answers will vary, but may include:

Fossil - something (such as a leaf, skeleton, or footprint) that is from a plant or animal which lived in ancient times and that you can see in some rocks

Fuel - a material (such as coal, oil, or gas) that is burned to produce heat or power; something that gives support or strength to something

Fossil fuel - a fuel (such as coal, oil, or natural gas) that is formed in the earth from dead plants or animals


    1. c
    2. b
    3. a

  1. Student answers will vary. Teacher will evaluate

  2. Label the following as renewable or nonrenewable.
    1. Trees/plants: renewable
    2. Coal: nonrenewable
    3. Air/wind: renewable
    4. Water: renewable
    5. Petroleum/oil: nonrenewable
    6. Natural gas: nonrenewable
    7. Sun: renewable

  3. Alternative fuels provide energy from sources other than coal, oil, and natural gas (nonrenewable resources).
  1. Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content:

 

  1. Answers may vary.
    1. hydroelectric - falling or flowing water
      pro: can store up a lot of energy
      con: must have a current strong enough to gather energy
  1. tidal - waves
    pro: there is 75% of our Earth covered in water
    con: strong waves/currents are often in remote areas off the coast
  1. solar – the sun
    pro: getting less expensive and many individuals can get
    con: the sun may not be shining, and only out certain hours of the day
  1. geothermal - heat from the Earth
    pro: hot climates can access
    con: technologies must be able to withstand heat
  1. wind - moving air
    pro: easily collected
    con: many find the wind turbines large and invasive
  1. Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content:

  1. Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content:

  1. Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content:

 

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