Grade 5 - Alberta Science - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 5 Alberta Science Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Earth Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What Is Weather?
• Snowman – What Is Weather?
• Simple Weather Tools
• Experiment – Making A Weather Vane
• Experiment – Making An Anemometer
• Experiment – Making A Rain Gauge
• What Is Climate?
• Comparing Climate Data
• World Climate Zones
• Climate Zones – Where Do Most People Live?
• Research Activity – Climate Zones
• Graphing Climate Data
• Fact Or Fiction – Climate Zones
• Ocean Climates
• Research – Coastal Cities vs Inland Cities
• Microclimate – Victoria, BC
• Activity – Finding A Microclimate
• Indigenous Climate Observations
• Weather Forecasting – Historical Methods
• Weather Forecasting – Current Methods
• RADAR – Predicting Natural Forces
• Coding – Supercomputers Predicting Weather
• Investigate – Local Weather
• Activity – Weather Report
• Writing Code – Weather Reports
• If/Else Statements – Predicting Weather
• Story – Living Without Weather Forecast
• Activity – New Product For Surviving Weather
• Impact Of Climate On Our Everyday Life
• How Climate Influences Animal Activities
• Farming In Alberta: Weather’s Big Role
• What Is Conservation Agriculture?
• Improving Soil – Crop Rotation
• Controlling Soil Erosion
• Experiment – Soil Erosion Model
• STEM Assignment – Soil Testing Machine
• Farming Animals In Alberta
• Conservation Agriculture – Farming Animals
• Farmers Responding To Weather Event
• Activity – Conservation Agricultural Role Play
• Animals Predict Weather Changes
• Memory Game: Weather, Climate, And Agriculture
• Unit Test
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Living Systems: Internal Body Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Introduction to Life Systems
• Circulatory System
• Word Search – Circulatory System
• Heart Disease
• What Is Cardiac Arrest
• Lab Experiment - Heart Rate
• STEM - Pacemakers
• Respiratory System
• Lung Activity - Paper Bag Lungs
• Digestive System
• Common Disease - Celiac
• Lab Experiment - Digestive System
• Skeletal System and Skeletal Disease - Osteoporosis
• Experiment - Egg with Osteoporosis
• Muscular System
• Nervous System
• Experiment - Ruler Drop
• Fact Or Fiction – Human Body Systems
• Animals - Similar Body Systems
• Optical Illusions – Our nervous system tricking us
• Activity - Optical Illusions
• Common diseases – stroke and epilepsy
• Nervous System Injuries - Paralysis
• Life Systems - Overview
• First People’s Understanding Of Body Systems
• Interrelations Between Systems
• Circulatory Relationship With Other Systems
• Story - Body Systems Working Together
• Smoking - Effects On Our Health
• The Sun - Effects On Our Health
• Reflection - Health And Technology
• Robotic Surgery
• Coding - Following Instructions
• If Then Conditional Statements - Activity
• STEM Assignment - Health Check Machine
• Xylem And Phloem
• Steps For Water And Nutrients In A Plant
• Experiment - Plant Transport Systems
• Memory Game: Systems, Health, And Plants
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy (Flight and Energy Resources) Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Properties of Air
• Experiment – Power of Air Pressure
• Air Is A Fluid
• Four Forces Of Flight
• Bernoulli’s Principle - Sprayers
• Lift – Bernoulli Vs Newton, Angle Of Attack
• Drag – Aerodynamics
• Paper Airplane – Drag Experiment
• Weight – Gravity
• Propulsion – Thrust
• Activity – Building a Propeller
• Control Surfaces Of A Plane
• Word Search – Forces Of Flight
• How Do Animals Fly?
• Fact Or Fiction – How Do Animals Fly?
• Aircraft Vs Spacecraft
• Testing & Designing A Parachute
• First Nations And Métis – Birds
• Activity – Designing And Building A Glider
• Coding – Auto Pilot On Planes
• Autopilot – Feedback Loop
• What Is Buoyant Force?
• Buoyant Forces And Densities
• Experiment – Buoyancy Of Water Vs Dish Soap
• Experiment – Designing the Ultimate Cargo Boat
• Lighter-Than-Air Flying Devices
• Renewable Vs Non-Renewable Energy
• Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Hydro Energy
• Activity – Balloon Car
• Renewable Energy: Biomass And Tidal Energy
• Geothermal – Generating Electricity
• Non-Renewable Energy – Fossil Fuels
• Nuclear Power Accidents
• Alberta's Energy Usage
• Using Energy Responsibly
• Consequences Of Energy Use
• Air Pollution Infographic
• Energy Efficiency
• Energy Audit – Classroom
• Coding – Thermostat
• Indigenous Communities – Energy & Resources
• Memory Game: Forces, Flight, And Energy
• Unit Test
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Space Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Understanding astronomical phenomenon
• Earth’s rotation and revolution
• Day and night – Earth’s axis
• Polar day and polar night
• Inuit story – Midnight Sun
• Experiment – rotating Earth
• Experiment – making a sundial
• Seasons – Earth’s orbit
• Experiment – creating a model of Earth’s orbit
• Equinox and solstices
• Seasonal changes – impact on agriculture and hunting
• Story - Losing My Leaves
• Fact Or Fiction – Seasons and Space Facts
• The Woodland Cree’s Six-Season Model
• Daylight saving time
• Story – 24 Hours of Darkness
• Phases of the moon
• Experiment – moon phases
• Making a calendar – representing moon phases
• Coding activity – programming a moon calculator
• Moon phases – effects on agriculture and hunting
• Nocturnal animals
• Lunar eclipses versus solar eclipses
• Experiment – eclipse simulation
• Ocean tides and their effects on hunting and agriculture
• Snowman – Space And Nature Connections
• Anishinaabe story – Fisher Brings the Summer
• What are auroras?
• Activity - Experiencing The Aurora Borealis
• Art activities – making a model aurora
• The Aurora Borealis - First People
• Métis – astronomical phenomena
• Coding activity – Using the North Star
• Métis Seasonal Rounds
• Cree First Nation - Seasonal Round
• Dene First Nation - Seasonal Round
• Spelling Bee: Space Vocabulary
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Matter Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is matter?
• The particle theory of matter
• Physical properties of matter: state, mass, volume, density, compressibility
• All about liquids
• Experiment – testing the flow of liquids
• Using liquids – hydraulics, lubrications
• Characteristics of solids
• Using solids – real world applications
• Experiment – weight of solids versus liquids
• Buoyancy – density of solids
• Buoyancy – scuba diving safety
• Coding activity – coding a scuba diver
• Experiment - buoyancy of water versus sugar water versus saltwater
• Experiment – buoyancy of different liquids
• Experiment – making a floating raft or boat
• Properties of gases
• Experiment – does air have any weight/mass?
• Air in our atmosphere
• Using gases – real world applications
• Relationship between mass, volume, and density
• Experiment – measuring mass activity
• Using referents to measure mass
• Estimating the mass of objects
• Calculating the density of objects using mass and volume
• Determining the volume of objects
• Experiment – measuring the volume and density of objects
• Compressibility – water versus air
• Experiment – testing which is easier to compress: water or air
• Experiment – using air compression for work
• Technologies that use air compression – air compressor, stomp rocket, and pneumatic tools
• Incompressible liquids – hydraulics
• Activity – building a hydraulic model
• Coding activity – maneuvering an excavator
• Buoyancy – fish using its swim bladder
• Coding activity – writing code to move a submarine through a map
• STEM Assignment – creating a submarine and writing code for it
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 5 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Science Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 5, Alberta Science Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.