Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

Grade 5

Subchapter 112.7

Reference Science Concepts The Digital Field Trip to The Wetlands The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest The Digital Field Trip to The Desert
5.5. A system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact.
(A) Describe some cycles, structures and processes that are found in a simple system Food Chains, Food Web, Photosynthesis, Nutrient Cycles Rainforest Mechanisms, Rocks and Minerals (rock cycle)
(B) Describe some interactions that occur in a simple system Food Chains, Food Web, Photosynthesis, Web Game Dependency Types, Web Game Build-a-Desert Game
5.6. Some change occurs in cycles.
(A) Identify events and describe changes that occur on a regular basis such as daily, lunar, and seasonal changes.   Rainforest Mechanisms (seasonality, productivity, succession, soils & decompostion), Climate  
(B) Identify the significance of the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles Nutrient Cycles Water Cycle Relate to Water Availability
(C) Describe and compare life cycles of plants and animals Organisms and Migration (life cycle) Organisms (life cycle) Organisms (life cycle)
5.9. Adaptations may increase the survival of members of a species.
(A) Compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics Adaptations, Organisms
(B) Analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism’s unique niche in an ecosystem Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations, Web Game Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, Niches, Web Game Adaptations, Animal and Plant Adaptations
(C) Predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by an organism in an ecosystem Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations, Web Game Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, New Species, How Species Change Adaptations, Animal and Plant Adaptations
5.10. Likenesses between offspring and parent are inherited or learned.
(A) Identify traits that are inherited from parent to offspring in plants and animals Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, New Species, How Species Change What is an Adaptation?, Animal and Plant Adaptations
(B) Give examples of learned characteristics that result in the influence of the environment Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, New Species, How Species Change Adaptations, Animal and Plant Adaptations
5.11. Certain past events affect present and future events.
(A) Identify and observe actions that require time for changes to be measurable, including growth, erosion, dissolving, weathering and flow Wetlands Mechanisms, Succession and Formation Rainforest Mechanisms Desert Mechanisms, Landscape Formation, Weathering, Wind, Water