Science, Grade 5

Unit 1: Life Science — Human Body Systems

How the human body stays healthy, the major body systems and their organs, and how the systems work together to move, grow, and react.

• The body's defences
• Diseases and the organs they affect
• Choices for a healthy body

• Body systems and their organs
• Modelling a body system
• Investigating a body system

• Systems that team up
• The nervous system in control

Unit 2: Physical Science — Materials, Forces, and Simple Machines

Investigating the states and properties of matter and how materials change, and exploring forces and the simple machines that help us move and lift loads.

• What matter is
• Solids, liquids, and gases
• Telling materials apart

• Reversible and non-reversible changes
• The six changes of state
• Fast and slow changes

• From raw material to product
• Making, using, and throwing away

• Contact and non-contact forces
• Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Investigating friction

• Levers
• Wheels, axles, and pulleys
• Ramps, screws, wedges, and building a machine

• Simple machines around us
• Complex machines and their impact

Unit 3: Earth and Space Science — Weather

Measuring and recording local weather, understanding what drives weather through air movement and solar energy, and how weather affects people and the technologies that help us cope.

• Weather instruments
• Recording and mapping weather

• Moving air and pressure
• The sun heats the Earth
• Severe weather

• Forecasts and weather's effects
• Technologies for coping with weather