Grade 5Science: Life Science
Use the information below to get a deeper understanding of what your child has mastered and areas where your child may need more help. There are also resources you can use to find activities to support your child’s learning at home.
Help can I help my child progress?
Next Steps
Here are some exercises you can work on at home with your Grade 5 student.
Below Mastery
With your student, discuss the living and nonliving parts of a specific land or aquatic ecosystem. Sort each part as producer, consumer, decomposer, or environment. Discuss how matter moves from one part to the next. Search “flow of energy and matter in ecosystems” online to inform the discussion.
At or Near Mastery
With your student, select a familiar ecosystem. Discuss how matter moves in a cycle through the environment, producers, consumers, and decomposers. Search “flow of energy and matter in ecosystems” online to inform the discussion. Select one organism and analyze its role in its ecosystem and its life cycle.
Above Mastery
With your student, discuss the producers, consumers, decomposers, and nonliving matter in a familiar ecosystem. Analyze how the organisms’ traits support their survival in the ecosystem. Predict how organisms would survive in different environments. Search “ecosystem cycles” online to support the discussion.
Talking With Your Child's Teacher
This document titled “Moving Forward: A Guide for Conversations with Your Child’s Teacher” includes helpful tips and questions to discuss with the teacher about your child’s classroom performance, academic progress, and more.
Additional Free Resources Available to Support Your Child's Learning
Use this information to have a meaningful conversation with your child’s teacher about the skills and content in the grade level and to support your child’s learning at home.
What Can I Do to Help My Child?
Talking with your child's teacher
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