Grade 05 Science - EC: S5.D.3.1.2
Grade 05 Science - EC: S5.D.3.1.2
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
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- List the inner planets.
- List the outer planets.
- Match the planet to the description.
- Order the planets by size (circumference) from largest to smallest.
- Classify the 8 planets. You may want to classify them by number of moons, size, surface characteristics, or orbital paths)
- Choose 1 of the inner planets and write a persuasive essay explaining why it is the most important planet.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
- a. iii
b. iv
c. ii
d. i
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury
- Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
- Saturn is the only planet with rings
- Earth is the only known planet with water
- Mercury and Venus do not have any moons
- Neptune is the blue planet, whereas Mars is known as the red planet
- All planets rotate around the sun however there rotations vary in length of time.
- Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
- Mercury- closest planet to the Sun, rotates the sun in 88 days, has a large number of deep irregular pits on its surface, NASA has sent a spacecraft called “Messenger” to gather more information
- Venus- the brightest planet in the solar system, orbits around the sun in about 225 days, named after the Greek goddess of love, the hottest planet in the solar system
- Earth- the largest of the inner planets, the only planet know to have water, humans live on this planet
- Mars- the “red” planet, has less gravity than Earth, approximate orbit is 687 days, furthest inner planet from the sun
