Ontario Grade 5 Structures Science Unit

Description

This is an entire unit for the Structures and Forces Science curriculum. This unit is over 60 pages long and contains multiple tech and paper options if you prefer. It fits the expectations for the Ontario Science Curriculum. The unit includes absolutely everything you could use for this unit to teach it as either language or as science.
You will receive full lesson plans for every activity often listing more than one activity as a choice within each lesson. Your child will enjoy the inquiry style research activities and discovery and teachers you will enjoy less stress as lessons are pre-planned and require no effort on your part! Writing, reading, and science all mix effortlessly in this unit to make covering more of the curriculum easier.

Covered in this unit:
– Tension
– Compression
– Buoyancy
– Gravity
– magnetic force
– Natural Phenomenon
– How Structures react to both Natural Phenomenon and other forces
– Types of bridges
– Review Quiz/Worksheet

Language Concepts Covered through questions:
– Inferencing
– Summarizing
– Adventure Story Writing (checklists to mark included)
– Text Features (Including anchor charts and activities to teach this concept for the first time).
– Main Idea with an explanation of why
– Synonyms
– Close Reading
– Explanation and Understanding of Science Vocabulary
– Multiple Choice Style answers

Furthermore, I have thrown in a section of Vocabulary cards that you can print, laminate, and put up on a  to keep from year to year. They come with a brief explanation of the word. I have noted that this could take two months, however, you could easily complete these lessons within a couple of weeks if you used them for language and science.