$5 - $10 5th Grade Biology Resources (by date, oldest first)

Need an awesome Art Unit? I have just the thing for you! This creative Fish Aquarium Scene was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I made 4 unique pre-cut fish aquarium stencils that students could choose from and trace on large 18 x 24-inch paper. Students were asked to brainstorm ideas for the background, and what the Fish Aquarium could be sitting on. Students were given lots of fish/aquarium life photos as a resource to draw from. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Need an awesome Art Unit? I have just the thing for you! This creative Insect Jar Scene was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I asked the students to create a couple sketches of what their insect jar would look like. Next, I asked the students to re-draw their sketch on a Final Copy paper and outline it with a black sharpie marker. Students spent 1-2 class periods coloring (w/colored pencils) the insects and other objects inside their jar, plus, the background around the jar. Students used a transparent blue watercolor to paint the inside of their insect jar. All finished! I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

North Carolina 5th Grade Science Teachers, this is for you! Are you looking for a fun way to help your students review topics aligned with the new 5th grade North Carolina Standard Course of Study Science Standards? Look no further! This bundle includes 6 worksheet sets with 4 pages per standard, easily copied front to back, with a variety of review activities. Perfect for homework, test review, study guide or EOG review!

Worksheet sets included in this bundle:

• Weather
• Ecosystems
• Human Body Systems
• Genetics
• Forces and Motion
• Properties of Matter (has 5 pages)

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• 5th Grade Science Vocabulary Word Wall Cards
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North Carolina 5th Grade Science Teachers, this is for you! This bundle includes 118 science vocabulary cards aligned with the new 2023 NC Standard Course of Study Science Standards (implemented Fall 2024)! These are perfect for a word wall bulletin board, pocket chart, or shrink them down and use them in interactive science notebooks!

Topics included in this bundle:

• Weather
• Ecosystems
• Human Body Systems
• Heredity and Genetics
• Forces and Motion
• Properties of Matter

Are you looking for more 5th Grade Science Vocabulary Resources? Check out these Crossword Puzzles or these Color by Code Vocabulary Activities for each unit! These are an easy, no-prep resource that are perfect to have on hand for sub plans, early finisher work, and more!

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Diseases? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 43 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What is a disease?

✦ What causes diseases?

✦ So how many groups of diseases are there?

✦ What are the alien organisms that invade the body, causing infectious diseases?

✦ How are pathogens transmitted (carried) to humans?

✦ What are some infectious diseases caused by bacteria, and how are they transmitted to people?

✦ What are some common symptoms (signs) of salmonellosis, cholera, and strep throat diseases?

✦ What are some common symptoms of Lyme disease?

✦ What are some common infectious diseases caused by viruses?

✦ What are some common symptoms of cold and the flu?

✦ What are some deadly viral diseases?

✦ What causes non-infectious diseases?

✦ What is an example of an inherited disease?

✦ What is an example of a disease that appears as a body ages?

✦ What is an example of a disease that is caused by poor nutrition?

✦ What is an example of a disease that is caused by malfunction in the body?

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• Online Learning
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Endocrine System Part 2? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 55 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Endocrine System Major Glands

• Adrenal Glands
• Pancreas (Insulin, glucagon)
• Diabetes

✦ What Is the Fight and Flight Response?

This resource is great for:

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• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Digestive System? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 57 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What happens to the food you eat?

✦ What kind of nutrients are in the food we eat?

✦ Different kinds of food

✦ How much should we eat of every kind of food?

✦ How do we write a problem, hypothesis, and conclusion?

✦ How do we compare?

✦ How does our body turn food into nutrients?

✦ How does the digestive system work?

✦ Digestive Juices

✦ The Small Intestine

✦ Practice Exercise

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Muscular System - Muscles? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 33 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Types of Muscle Tissues

✦ Aspects of Muscle Tissues

✦ Skeletal Muscle Tissues

✦ Smooth Muscle Tissues

✦ Cardiac Muscle Tissues

✦ Body Front and Back Muscles View

✦ Head Facial Muscles

✦ Muscles Characteristics

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Excretory System & Competencies - Organs of the excretory system (kidneys, Ureters, Urinary Bladder, Urethra)? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 42 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What do people do with rotten fruits?

✦ What do you think happens to the unwanted liquid waste in your body?

✦ What is the Excretory System?

✦ What are the two functions OF the excretory system?

✦ What are the Four organs & cells in charge of the excretory system?

✦ Organs of the excretory system (kidneys, Ureters, Urinary Bladder, Urethra)

✦ Competencies (Problem, Hypothesis, Compare, Infer, Conclude)

✦ How does sweat excrete our body?

✦ Competencies Bar Graph - How to Construct a Bar Graph

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Respiratory System? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 37 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What is the Respiratory System?

✦ What is Respiration?

✦ What are the respiratory system organs?

✦ How do the organs function?

✦ What Happens When We Breathe?

✦ Circulatory System

✦ Vessels

✦ Veins Arteries and Capillaries

✦ What are the blood components or elements?

✦ What is the function of each blood component?

✦ What blood element they look like?

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Endocrine System Part 1? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 44 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Endocrine System Function

✦ Endocrine System Major Glands

• Pituitary Gland
• Thyroid Gland
• Thymus Gland

This resource is great for:

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• Homeschooling
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Bacteria? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 35 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Kingdoms of Living Things “Bacteria”

✦ Mention the Six Kingdoms

✦ Bacteria Shapes

✦ Round-Shaped Bacteria – Cocci

✦ Rod-Shaped Bacteria

✦ Spirochetes

✦ Good vs. Bad Bacteria

✦ Archaebacteria vs. Eubacteria

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Skeletal System part 1? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 32 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What are the parts of the skeletal system?

✦ What are the functions of skeletal system?

✦ List of some bones of the skeletal system

✦ Joints

✦ Parts of a joint

✦ Kinds of Bones

✦ Bar graph, Compare, and Conclude

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This resource contains eight non-fiction texts about animal defenses.

There are two passages about animals that use camouflage, two about animals that use chemicals, two about animals that use mimicry, and two about animals that use another method of defense. The passages are written on different levels and are of different length making it easy to differentiate. There are corresponding recording sheets to help students show what they have read about.

The passages were written with fourth graders in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for upper grades as well.

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Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?

• This fifth-grade life science unit fits the bill! We have researched each standard, so nothing goes untaught.
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- 5 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.

Lesson 1 - Which Materials Are Most Important for Plant Growth?

Lesson 2 - Photosynthesis

Lesson 3 - Air Plants

Lesson 4 - Hydroponics

Lesson 5 - Writing Your Claim

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- Research Project: The advantages and disadvantages of hydroponic gardening

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- 5 colorful essential vocabulary cards with graphics and definitions

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Do you need a science curriculum that is aligned to the NGSS?

• This fifth-grade life science unit fits the bill! We have researched each standard, so nothing goes untaught.
• It comes with:

- 7 detailed lessons, so you can reclaim your nights and weekends.

• Lesson 1 - Review of Matter and Do Plants and Animals Use Matter to Survive?
• Lesson 2 - The Human Digestive System
• Lesson 3 - What are Food Chains?
• Lesson 4 - Review of Ecosystems in Relationship to Food Chains and Food Webs
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• Lesson 7 - Making a Model of a Food Chain

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• the standards
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• Biologist Poster
• Posters of the human digestive system, a food chain, a food web, decomposers,
  etc.
• "I can" statement card
• Readings about The Human Digestive System and Decomposers
• Graphic Organizers
• Sorting Cards
• 15 colorful essential vocabulary cards with graphics and definitions

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This resource contains six non-fiction texts about animals that live in groups and the reasons why this is advantageous to them!

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Do you need vocabulary development in science? This resource includes 60 vocabulary words that are essential for the NGSS. Perfect for a word wall! Each word contains a graphic to help students.

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This resource contains twelve non-fiction texts about some very interesting animals that I've encountered. It was made with the NGSS in the area of life sciences in mind. The articles are on a low to high third-grade reading level, but the passages are even interesting for adults! They are perfect for early finishers, for use in centers, and for whole and small group reading.

Animals written about include:

Armadillos

Black and Yellow Garden Spiders

Blue Herons

Crows

Elephants

Hermit Crabs

Lady Bugs

Mushroom Cap Jellyfish

Nine-Armed Sea Stars

Pigs

Sea Turtles

Monitor Lizards

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This 5th grade science resource helps students to learn about the internal and external structures of plants and their functions. It is part of our fifth-grade earth science unit but works well as a stand alone unit.

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