Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

This lesson is building toward:

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION (PE)

5-PS1-2

Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved. [Clarification Statement: Examples of reactions or changes could include phase changes, dissolving, and mixing that form new substances.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include distinguishing mass and weight.]

5-PS1-3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. [Clarification Statement: Examples of materials to be identified could include baking soda and other powders, metals, minerals, and liquids. Examples of properties could include color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, and solubility; density is not intended as an identifiable property.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include density or distinguishing mass and weight.]

NGSS Lead States. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES (SEP)

Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Use prior knowledge to describe problems that can be solved.
Define a simple design problem that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system and includes criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Evaluate appropriate methods and/or tools for collecting data.
Make observations and/or measurements to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon or test a design solution.

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Represent data in tables and/or various graphical displays (bar graphs, pictographs and/or pie charts) to reveal patterns that indicate relationships.
Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena, using logical reasoning, mathematics and/or computation.
Compare and contrast data collected by different groups in order to discuss similarities and differences in their findings.

DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS (DCI)

PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter

Measurements of a variety of properties can be used to identify materials.
The amount (weight) of matter is conserved when it changes form, even in transitions in which it seems to vanish.

CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS (CCC)

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Natural objects exist from the very small to the immensely large.
Standard units are used to measure and describe physical quantities such as weight, time, temperature, and volume.

Patterns

Similarities and differences in patterns can be used to sort and classify, communicate and analyze simple rates of change for natural phenomena and designed products.

“Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science and Engineering Practices, and Crosscutting Concepts” are reproduced verbatim from A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/13165. National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Board on Science Education; Committee on a Conceptual Framework for New K-12 Science Education Standards. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. This material may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes and used by other parties with this attribution. If the original material is altered in any way, the attribution must state that the material is adapted from the original. All other rights reserved.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

CCSS ELA SPEAKING & LISTENING

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL5.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.
Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.
Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.

California English Language Development (ELD) Standards

CA ELD

Part I.5.6a: Reading/viewing closely

EMERGING

EXPANDING

BRIDGING

a) Explain ideas, phenomena, processes, and text relationships (e.g., compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution) based on close reading of a variety of grade-level texts and viewing of multimedia with substantial support.

In addition to the standard above, you may find that you touch on the following standards in this lesson as well:

P1.5.1: Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics.