helping hands science

FIFTH GRADE - HELPING HANDS SCIENCE
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Chapter

Required Lab in Science Lab

Materials

Storybooks or Slideshow (on http://msnucleus.org)

LIFE

Cells			The Naked Eye Microscopes
Plant System	5.1 Comparing plants (Life Cycle - Plants 5B)	3 sets of liquidambar, 3 pines, baby’s breath, lavender, sage, corn, bean
Human Body	5.2 Comparing Heart (Life Cycle -Human Biology 4B)	Stethoscope	My Belly Hurts Skeletal Hip Hop Human Bone Poem Human Biology (slideshow)

EARTH

Water Resources
Water Cycle	5.3 Properties of Water	2 sets of 4 stations (1-pins;2-capillary, plexiglass, closed, straw; 3 – density timers; 4 – penny, dropper Different tubes, pins, density timers, droppers	Mr. Drippy
Weather
Solar System	5.4 Meteorites	Rocks (granite, basalt, obsidian, sandstone, schist), tektites	Twelve Labors of Hercules Searching the Universe (slideshow)

PHYSICAL

Atoms and Elements

5.5 Periodic Table -Elements

15 periodic tables

Chemical Compounds

5.6 Compounds - Salt

5 sets of halite crystal, mill feed, blending, granulated, pellets, bakers, medium

Matter