NEW 2022 CURRICULUM! Ontario - Grade 4 & 5 Science Units - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 4 & 5!

NEW 2022 CURRICULUM! BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!

Check out the previews of these units to learn more about how they can benefit your students. These massive units contains readings, diagrams, experiments, true/false, and much more!

***Strand A: STEM/Coding has been added to this unit at no extra charge!

Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grades 4 and 5 language programs. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, questioning, visualizing, and inferencing) as they work through this unit.

Grade 4

Unit 1 - Machines and their Mechanisms

• What are machines?
• Simple machines – overview
• Roller vs wheel – sliding friction
• Wheel and axle – mechanical advantage
• Gears – spur gear, idle gear, bevel gear and worm gear
• Bicycles – using gears
• Gear trains and gear ratios – mechanical advantages
• Gears – changing planes (horizontal vs vertical)
• Gears - rotary motion vs linear motion
• Pulleys – fixed pulley, moveable pulley and compound pulley
• Pulleys - calculating mechanical advantage
• Pulleys – changing direction of force
• Pulley systems in our everyday lives
• Experiment – creating a pulley system
• Levers – types (class 1, class 2, class 3)
• Levers in our everyday lives
• Labelling levers by their type/class
• Experiment – creating a lever system
• Calculating the mechanical advantage of levers
• Inclined planes – mechanical advantage
• Everyday uses of inclined planes
• Calculating the mechanical advantage of inclined planes
• Wedges – everyday uses and diagram
• Screw – everyday uses and diagram
• Identifying simple machines in your life
• Compound machines – scissors, wheelbarrow
• Muscular-skeletal system – levers in our bodies
• Importance of machines in our lives – backhoe
• Electric vs fuel burning vehicles (machines) – effects on the environment
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing and reading code
• STEM Assignment – Self-Driving Vehicles
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 2 - Habitats and Communities

• What are habitats?
• What is a community?
• Terrestrial habitats vs aquatic habitats
• Difference between organisms, species, communities, and habitats
• Survival needs for organisms in habitats
• Animal adaptations that allow them to survive in their habitat
• Desert habitat – warm and cold deserts - climate, vegetation, animals, adaptations
• Grassland habitat – climate, vegetation, animals, adaptations
• Forest habitats – tropical forests, temperate forests, and boreal forests
• Importance of trees and forests for animals
• Aquatic habitats – wetlands
• Wetlands near us
• Plant and animal adaptations in wetlands
• Aquatic habitats – deep ocean and coral reefs
• Interaction of living and non-living things in habitats
• Food chain – producers, consumers and decomposers
• Creating a food chain
• Ordering food chains in different habitats
• Food web in wetlands
• Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
• Limits of habitats – carrying capacity
• Specialized vs generalized species
• Extinction and endangered species
• Human dependency on habitats – how humans affect habitats
• Wildlife populations and communities – endangered animals and extinction
• Human caused changes to habitats
• How you can help habitats
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Creating a zoo animal enclosure
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 3 - Rocks, Minerals and Geological Processes

• What is geology?
• Rocks vs minerals
• Classifying rocks and minerals
• Mineral composition of certain rocks – granite, gneiss, limestone, conglomerate, etc.
• The rock cycle – reading and diagram
• Science experiment – the rock cycle
• Geological processes that create metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rock
• Physical properties of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock
• Identifying metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rocks
• Describing rocks/minerals using their properties – lustre, hardness, colour, texture, transparency
• Science experiment – testing the hardness of rocks
• Earth’s processes – compacting, cementing, cooling, heating, pressure, erosion, etc.
• Controlling erosion – seawalls
• Weathering rocks – sediments
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition – formation of islands and sand dunes
• Science experiment - mixing earth’s materials
• Rocks and fossils
• What fossils tell us about Earth’s history
• The effects of wind, water, and ice on rocks and landforms
• Everyday uses of rocks
• Research activity – how rocks are used in different industries
• Indigenous use of rocks – Inukshuks, flint, and paint
• Activity – creating a clay Inukshuk
• Impacts of mining of the environment and socially (people)
• Mining towns – Mirny (Russia) and Dawson City (Yukon gold rush)
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Underground Drones
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 4 - Light and Sound

• What is energy – light and sound
• All about light – interesting facts
• Light sources – natural and artificial light
• Light emitters and light reflectors
• Properties of light – light absorbing, light reflecting, and light refracting
• Light travelling in a straight path - shadows
• White light and why we see colours
• Light interacting with different materials
• Light and heat – wasting energy
• Objects and devices that create both light and heat
• Shadows – opaque, transparent, and translucent objects – lab experiment
• Devices that use light – research assignment
• Lab – making a kaleidoscope
• Protecting our eyes from light
• Light pollution – affecting the environment
• Sound – interesting facts
• Sound travelling through matter – solids, liquids, and gases
• How our ears decipher sounds
• Properties of sound – reflected, absorbed (soundproof rooms)
• Sound waves - pitch, frequency, and amplitude
• Vibrations causing sound waves
• Echolocation – animals use sound to see
• Doppler effect
• Protecting our ears and hearing
• Materials that transmit sound
• Inventions that use sound – research assignment
• Sound pollution – transportation (trains, vehicles, airplanes)
• Lab – making a cereal box guitar
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Writing Code for a Walkie-Talkie
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Grade 5

Unit 1 - Human Health and Body Systems

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Introduction to body systems
• Nervous system – diagrams, reading and questions
• Circulatory system – diagrams, reading and questions
• Circulatory system experiment – testing heart rate and exercise
• Respiratory system – diagrams, reading and questions
• Respiratory system experiment – making lungs
• Digestive system – diagrams, reading and questions
• Digestive system experiment – creating a model digestive system
• Skeletal system - diagrams, reading and questions
• Types of bones
• Muscular system - diagrams, reading and questions
• Body systems – review
• Diseases – Stroke, Asthma, Celiac, and Epilepsy – Readings and questions for all four
• Vital signs – how vital signs help diagnose diseases
• Interrelationship between body systems
• Circulatory system relationship with other body system
• Integumentary system – reading, diagram, and questions
• Immune system – reading, diagram, and questions
• Execratory system – reading, diagram, and questions
• Smoking – Effects on health
• The Sun – Effects on health
• Creating a plan to limit sun exposure
• Food literacy – effects on mental and physical health
• Macronutrients – when and why we eat proteins, carbohydrates, and fats
• Reading nutrition labels and ingredient lists
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Building a Health Care Machine
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 2 - Properties of and Changes in Matter

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is matter?
• Particle theory of matter
• All about solids – physical properties
• All about liquids – physical properties
• All about gases – physical properties
• Changing states – evaporation, condensation, melting, freezing, sublimation, deposition
• Evaporation and condensation in our homes, community, and environment
• Changes in state – physical changes involving thermal (heat) energy
• Chemical vs physical changes
• Evidence of chemical change – colour change, bubbles, odour, change in temperature, precipitate formation
• Experiment – demonstrating chemical change
• Experiment – weight of solids versus liquids
• Using solids in our everyday lives – rigid with fixed shape
• Using liquids in our everyday lives – hydraulics and lubricants
• Using gases in our everyday lives – hairspray, compressed air, air compressor, soda
• Food production effects on the environment
• The effects of creating materials like plastic on the environment
• The chemical change involved in creating plastic
• Waste in our world
• Packaging choices – choosing environmentally friendly packaging
• Decreasing our waste – the three R’s
• Beyond the three R’s (rot, refuse, repair, regift)
• STEM Activities
• Hands on Experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing code
• Reading code
• STEM Assignment – Writing Weather App
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 3 - Conservation of Energy

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is energy?
• Types of energy - potential vs kinetic energy
• Potential energy lab experiment
• Forms of energy – chemical, electrical, thermal, mechanical, and nuclear energy
• What is thermal energy?
• Thermal energy from chemical reactions
• Thermal energy experiment
• Nuclear energy – reading, questions
• Nuclear energy accidents – Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi
• Law of conservation of energy – transforming energy
• Chemical energy – food, wood, fireworks, candles
• Electricity – turbines
• Potential energy that can transform into electrical energy
• Renewable and non-renewable energy
• Consequences of energy use
• Fossil fuel drawbacks
• Gasoline energy – survey – do you waste gasoline?
• Air pollution infographics
• Renewable energy – Solar, Wind, Hydro
• Effects of using energy
• Climate change – greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect
• Carbon cycle – increasing carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect
• Energy efficient appliances – Ener guide, insulation
• Insulation lab experiment
• Energy audit – at home and at school (drafty windows, HVAC systems, insulation, etc.)
• Indigenous communities – conserving energy and resources
• Indigenous organizations against climate change – Indigenous Clean Energy and Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon
• Coastal GasLink Pipeline – Indigenous fighting against fossil fuels
• STEM Activities
• Hands on experiments
• Building models, systems, and structures
• Reading and writing code
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Unit 4 - Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are structures?
• External forces – dead and live loads
• Forces – push and pull
• External forces – contact and non-contact forces
• Centre of gravity – strong and stable structures
• The Great Pyramid of Giza – low centre of gravity
• Leaning Tower of Pisa – centre of gravity
• Lightning – non-contact force acting on structures
• Environmental external forces – wind and water
• Tsunamis and Tornados – external forces
• Tropical storms – hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones
• How to build structures strong enough to withstand natural phenomenon
• Storm shutters, houses build on pillars, storm windows
• Natural phenomenon – evacuation orders
• Properties of materials – concrete and other materials
• Assignment – infographic about building materials
• Assignment – natural forces (natural phenomenon)
• Internal forces – tension, compression, shear, bending, torsion
• Internal forces acting on structures – real-life examples
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse – Internal and external forcing acting on the bridge
• Beams and trusses
• Experiment – building a truss
• Experiment – building H, I, and X beams
• Forces in sports – protective equipment
• Plants and animals - physical properties that protect them from forces
• Cats survive high falls – physical properties of cats
• Sunflowers and Hyperion Tree grow tall – physical properties of plants
• Armadillo – physical properties protecting them from forces (shell)
• STEM Activities
• Hands on experiments
• Building models, systems, or structures
• Writing, reading, and storing code
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

These are comprehensive units that will save you hours of planning! They have been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning goals in the NEW science curriculum.

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