Science and Technology, Grade 5

Unit 1: STEM Skills and Connections

Coding that stores and processes data, thinking about how coding and new technology (including skilled trades) change everyday life, spotting science and technology in occupations and skilled trades, and learning about people from many communities who help science grow.

• Coding to store and process data

• How coding and new technology affect life and skilled trades

• Science and technology in occupations and skilled trades

• Learning about contributions from many communities

Unit 2: Human Organ Systems

The systems of the human body and their functions, vital organs, how body systems work together, and diseases and disorders — plus how social and environmental factors, technologies, and food literacy affect human health.

• Social and environmental factors in health
• How technology affects our body systems
• Food literacy and health

• Systems of the human body
• Vital organs and their functions
• How body systems work together
• Diseases, disorders, and the systems they affect

Unit 3: Properties and Changes in Matter

Matter as mass and volume, the states of matter and their properties, changes of state, physical and chemical change, the role of thermal energy, and why properties make materials useful — plus how manufacturing and material choices affect society and the environment.

• Impacts of manufacturing processes
• Material choices and reducing harm

• Matter has mass and takes up space
• States of matter and their properties
• Changes of state
• Physical change
• Chemical change
• Thermal energy and changes of state
• Why properties make materials useful

Unit 4: Forces Acting on Structures

Internal and external forces on structures, forces from natural phenomena and structural features that withstand them, and protective features in living things and equipment — plus how natural forces affect structures and how humans mitigate the impacts.

• Effects of natural forces on structures
• How people protect structures from natural forces

• Internal forces on a structure
• External forces on a structure
• Withstanding forces from natural phenomena
• Protective features in animals and plants
• Protective equipment for humans

Unit 5: Conservation of Energy and Resources

Forms of energy, the law of conservation of energy, potential energy and transformations, energy dissipation, renewable and non-renewable sources, and how fossil fuels drive climate change — plus long-term impacts of energy use and how technology and Indigenous knowledge help conserve energy.

• Long-term impacts of energy and resource use
• Technology and energy consumption
• First Nations, Métis, and Inuit energy and resource knowledge

• Forms of energy
• The law of conservation of energy
• Stored energy and transformation
• Energy dissipation
• Renewable and non-renewable energy sources
• Fossil fuels and climate change