5th Grade Science

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead

5th graders planting perennial bulbs

planting red emperor tulips

5th grade students are studying the following topics this year:

paper airplane experiment

domino and cyclic causality

food chains, food webs, energy pyramids

ecology

Echo Hill Overnight Trip on the Maryland Eastern Shore

Innovation Day

Little Bits, Paper Circuits, Rubber band racers

Aquaponics Gardening

Simple machines –  3 kinds of levers

Xpult data collection and bucket challenge

different atomic models

experiments in chemistry – physical and chemical changes

cheese lab

New Jersey Bear Hunt decision making role play

botany – parts of a flower

spring gardening

soil studies – texture, pH, N, P, K tests

spring stream study

classification of insects journal – Greek Laurel Project

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