AISL Grade 5 Benchmarks in Science

(Revised June, 2010)

AISL.SCI.01. PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and properties of matter.
AISL.SCI.01.G5.01 Know that all matter is made up of atoms
AISL.SCI.01.G5.02 Draw and label the parts of an atom (electron, proton, neutron, nucleus)
AISL.SCI.01.G5.03 Investigate relationships between mass, volume, and weight
AISL.SCI.02. PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the sources and properties of energy.
AISL.SCI.02.G5.01 Demonstrate how electrical currents are produced and used.
AISL.SCI.02.G5.02 Explain the terms wave length, vibration, amplitude, frequency, pitch, and how they relate to sound production
AISL.SCI.02.G5.03 Describe the behavior of light: it can be reflected, refracted, or absorbed
AISL.SCI.02.G5.04 Know that heat is often produced as a byproduct when one form of energy is converted to another form
AISL.SCI.03. PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of forces and motion.
AISL.SCI.03.G5.01 Determine factors that affect motion, including force, friction, inertia, and momentum
AISL.SCI.03.G5.02 Investigate the components of the lever systems and pulley systems
AISL.SCI.03.G5.03 Analyze real-world tools and machines in terms of the simple machines that make them work
AISL.SCI.04. LIFE SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of living systems.
AISL.SCI.04.G5.01 Identify and describe structures that make up plant and animal cells.
AISL.SCI.05. LIFE SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the principles of reproduction and heredity
AISL.SCI.05.G5.01 Describe the basic reproductive systems of a male and female homo sapien.
AISL.SCI.06. LIFE SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between ecosystems and the organisms that inhabit them.
AISL.SCI.06.G5.01 Know the organization of simple food chains and food webs (green plants make their own food with sunlight, water, and air; some animals eat plants; some animals eat the animals that eat plants)
AISL.SCI.06.G5.02 Know that an organism's patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism's environment (kinds of numbers of other organisms present, availability of food and resources, physical characteristics of the environment)
AISL.SCI.07. LIFE SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the diversity and adaptations of organisms
AISL.SCI.07.G5.01 Know that changes in the environment can have different effects on different organisms (e.g. some organisms move in, others move out; some organisms survive and reproduce, others die)
AISL.SCI.09. EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the earth's composition and structure.
AISL.SCI.09.G5.01 Demonstrate an understanding of the rock cycle
AISL.SCI.09.G5.02 Know that rock is composed of different combinations of minerals
AISL.SCI.09.G5.03 Understand the basic structure of the Earth's interior
AISL.SCI.09.G5.04 Investigate the water cycle, including the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation
AISL.SCI.10. EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE: Students will understand the processes that shape the earth.
AISL.SCI.10.G5.01 Investigate how features on the Earth's surface are changed over time
AISL.SCI.10.G5.02 Recognize ways that humans impact some of the above processes
AISL.SCI.11. EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the composition and structure of the universe and the earth's place in it.
AISL.SCI.11.G5.01 Describe the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
AISL.SCI.11.G5.02 Understand that the solar system includes Earth, the Moon, the Sun, eight other planets and smaller objects, such as asteroids and comets.
AISL.SCI.11.G5.03 Know that the patterns of stars in the sky stay the same, that different stars can be seen in different hemispheres, that stars are innumerable and of unequal brightness
AISL.SCI.12. SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Students will demonstrate the use of the scientific method.
AISL.SCI.12.G5.01 Classify objects (e.g. rocks, plants, leaves) in accordance with appropriate criteria
AISL.SCI.12.G5.02 Develop a testable question
AISL.SCI.12.G5.03 Plan and conduct a simple investigation based on a student-developed question and write instructions others can follow to carry out the procedure
AISL.SCI.12.G5.04 Select appropriate tools to measure and make quantitative observations
AISL.SCI.12.G5.05 Record data by using appropriate graphic representations (charts, graphs, labeled diagrams) and make inferences based on that data
AISL.SCI.12.G5.06 Draw conclusions from scientific evidence and indicate whether further information is needed to support a specific conclusion.
AISL.SCI.12.G5.07 Document/record an investigation that includes conducting tests, collecting data, examining evidence, and drawing conclusions
AISL.SCI.13. SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Students will be able to demonstrate scientific thinking
AISL.SCI.13.G5.01 Know that the general evidence collected from scientific investigations should be replicable by others.
AISL.SCI.13.G5.02 Give scientific explanations based on evidence and scientific knowledge.
AISL.SCI.13.G5.03 Make the results of their investigations public.
AISL.SCI.13.G5.04 Review and asks questions about the results of other scientists' work.