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Below are the objectives for Grade 5.  Click on the link  for students or  for teachers for any objective to see the resources available or to add your own resource.

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Standard 1: Earth & Space

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A.   Explain the characteristics, cycles and patterns involving Earth and its place in the Solar System.

1.   Describe how night and day are caused by Earth’s rotation (e.g., sun rises in the east, sets in the west).

2.   Explain that Earth is one of several planets to orbit the sun, and that the moon orbits Earth (e.g., moon phases).

3.   Describe how the characteristics of Earth and its orbit about the sun influence: seasons, years, eclipses and tides.

4.   Explain that stars are like the sun, some being smaller and some larger, but so far away that they look like points of light.

C.   Describe Earth’s resources including rocks, soil, water, air, animals and plants and the ways in which they can be conserved.

5.   Explain how the supply of many non-renewable resources is limited and can be extended through reducing, reusing and recycling but cannot be extended indefinitely.

6.   Investigate ways Earth’s renewable resources (e.g., fresh water, air, wildlife and trees) can be maintained.

 

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