Grade 5 Science Colorado standards Standards

Practice responsible, ethical, and safe use of computing technology and the internet.

Digital Citizenship

Explain how AI tools work and how they are built.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Design and create programs, individually and collaboratively, for a variety of disciplines.

Computer Programming

Develop systems solutions from a set of specifications to complete a design process.

Computing Systems and Networks

Systematically analyze a problem using decomposition and abstraction to formulate a solution.

Develop, utilize, and evaluate algorithms, to model and solve problems.

Computational Thinking

Algorithms can be created, tested, and improved.

Determine potential solutions to solve simple hardware and software problems using common troubleshooting strategies.

Compare multiple algorithms for the same task and determine which is the most appropriate.

Test and debug (identify and fix errors) a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.

Complex problems can be broken into smaller parts to facilitate the program development process.

Decompose (breakdown) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.

When designing or improving computational artifacts, the designer should consider various perspectives.

Seek diverse perspectives for the purpose of improving computational artifacts.

Computer programs can include a variety of components that can be created and revised collaboratively over time to improve and expand the function of the program.

Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.

Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.

Modify, remix, or incorporate portions of an existing program into one's own work, to develop something new or add more advanced features.

Use an iterative process to plan the development of a program by including others' perspectives and considering diverse viewpoints.

Take on varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development.

Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations.

AI systems can express information through a variety of ways and can perform tasks they were not explicitly programmed to perform through machine learning

Give examples of intelligent vs. non intelligent machines and discuss what makes a machine intelligent.

Identify problems as either classification problems or search problems.

Identify patterns in labeled data and determine the features that predict labels.

Cyberbullying is the use of digital devices, sites, and apps to intimidate, harm, and/or upset someone.

Recognize similarities and differences between in-person bullying, cyberbullying, and being mean.

Identify strategies for dealing with cyberbullying and ways they can be an upstander for those being bullied.

Explain how certain policies and laws are created to guide online interactions.

Earth and Space Science

Stars range greatly in size and distance from Earth, and this can explain their relative brightness.

Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth.

Earth's orbit and rotation and the orbit of the moon around earth cause observable patterns.

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

Earth's major systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth's surface materials and processes.

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and/or atmosphere interact.

Most of Earth's water is in the ocean and much of Earth's freshwater in glaciers or underground.

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of saltwater and freshwater in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

Societal activities have had major effects on land, ocean, atmosphere and even outer space.

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.

Life Science

Plants acquire their material from growth chiefly from air and water.

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Matter cycles between air and soil and among plants, animals and microbes as these organisms live and die.

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Physical Science

Matter exists as particles that are too small to be seen; measurements of a variety of observable properties can be used to identify particular materials.

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Chemical Reactions that occur when substances are mixed can be identified by the emergence of substances with different properties; the total mass remains the same.

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.

Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

The gravitational force of Earth acting on an object near Earth's surface pulls that object toward the planet's center.

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

The energy released from food was once energy from the sun.

Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.