Priority Standard:
- 5.P.2 Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur.
- 5.P.2.3 Summarize properties of original materials, and the new material(s) formed, to demonstrate that a change has occurred.
- 5.P.1.1 Explain how the sun’s energy impacts the processes of the water cycle including: evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation and runoff.
- 5.P.2.2 Compare the weight of an object to the sum of the weight of its parts before and after an interaction
Essential Questions/Big Ideas:
- What is matter?
- How are mass and weight related?
- What is the relationship between the weight of objects and the sum of their parts?
- How can matter be changed?
- Describe the changes that take place in matter.
- Can you create before and after representations of the properties of materials?
- The sun’s energy is the driving force in all cycles, biotic and abiotic, on the surface of the earth.
- The weight of an object is equal to the weight of the sum of its parts.
- By making qualitative and quantitative data records, we are able to create before/after representations of materials (and their properties), so that we can compare before/after versions of materials.