Annually Assessed Fifth Grade NGSS Benchmarks
These are the 18 fifth grade benchmark groupings that are annually assessed on FCAT 2.0 Science, plus the 7 assessed benchmark groupings that are not taught in 5th grade.
When you see a benchmark code that is blue ( SC.5.N.1.3), that is a link to a dedicated page focused that benchmark.
SC.5.N.1.1 Define a problem, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigations of various types such as: systematic observations, experiments requiring the identification of variables, collecting and organizing data, interpreting data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
| Science Video - Science Fair Panic, part 4 | Science Video - Floating Cups |
| Science Video - Science Fair Panic, part 3 | Science Experiment - Cone of Sound |
| Science Video - Science Fair Panic, part 2 | Science Experiment - Three Holes |
| Science Video - Science Fair Panic, part 1 | FCAT - SC.5.N.1.1-1 |
SC.5.N.2.1 Recognize and explain that science is grounded in empirical observations that are testable; explanation must always be linked with evidence.
| Science Experiment - Is Gravity a Theory or a Law? | FCAT - SC.5.N.2.1-1 |
| Science Video - Observation | FCAT - SC.5.N.2.1-2 |
| Science Video - Floating Cups | FCAT - SC.5.N.2.1-3 |
| Science Video - Oxygen? No! | FCAT - SC.5.N.2.1-4 |
| Science Video - What is Science? |
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Also assesses SC.3.N.1.7, SC.4.N.1.3, SC.4.N.1.7, SC.5.N.1.5, and SC.5.N.1.6
SC.5.N.2.2: Recognize and explain that when scientific investigations are carried out, the evidence produced by those investigations should be replicable by others.
| Science Video - Science Fair Panic, part 2 | Science Video - What is Science? |
| Science Video - Floating Cups |
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Also assesses SC.3.N.1.2, SC.3.N.1.5, SC.4.N.1.2, SC.4.N.1.5, and SC.5.N.1.3
SC.5.E.5.1 Recognize that a galaxy consists of gas, dust, and many stars, including any objects orbiting the stars. Identify our home galaxy as the Milky Way.
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Also assesses SC.3.E.5.1, SC.3.E.5.2, and SC.3.E.5.3
SC.5.E.5.3 Distinguish among the following objects of the Solar System – Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets – and identify Earth’s position in it.
| Science Experiment - Scale Model of the Solar System | Study Unit - What is Mass? |
| Science Video - Mass and Weight | FCAT - SC.5.E.5.3-1 |
| Science Video - Global Science | FCAT - SC.5.E.5.3-2 |
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Also assesses SC.5.E.5.2
SC.5.E.7.1 Create a model to explain the parts of the water cycle. Water can be a gas, a liquid, or a solid and can go back and forth from one state to another.
| Science Video - Water Cycle | Science Video - A Model of the Water Cycle |
| Science Video - Wonderful Water | FCAT - SC.5.E.7.1-1 |
| Science Video - A Watched Pot | FCAT - SC.5.E.7.1-2 |
| Science Experiment - Solar Distillary | FCAT - SC.5.E.7.1-3 |
| Science Experiment - Evaporation |
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Also assesses SC.5.E.7.2
SC.5.E.7.3 Recognize how air temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation determine the weather in a particular place and time.
| Science Experiment - Pinecone Weather | Science Video - Building a Rain Gauge |
| Science Video - Water Cycle | FCAT - SC.5.E.7.3-1 |
| Science Experiment - A Homemade Barometer |
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Also assesses SC.5.E.7.4, SC.5.E.7.5, and SC.5.E.7.6
SC.5.P.8.1 Compare and contrast the basic properties of solids, liquids, and gases, such as mass, volume, color, texture, and temperature.
| Science Video - Crushed Can | Science Video - Matter |
| Science Video - Floating Bubbles | Science Video - Mass and Weight |
| Science Video - Ice Cream Science | Science Video - Mirage |
| Science Experiment - States of Matter | Science Video - Half a Water Balloon |
| Science Video - Density Column | Science Video - Water in a Glass, Part 2 |
| Science Video - Egg States | Science Experiment - Butter Science |
| Science Video - A Watched Pot | Study Unit - What is Mass? |
| Science Video - Dry Ice | FCAT - SC.5.P.8.1-1 |
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Also assesses SC.3.P.8.1, SC.3.P.8.2, SC.3.P.8.3, and SC.4.P.8.1
SC.5.P.8.3 Demonstrate and explain that mixtures of solids can be separated based on observable properties of their parts such as particle size, shape, color, and magnetic attraction.
| Science Video - Sorting Salt and Pepper | Science Experiment - Panning for Iron |
| Science Experiment - Sorting Salt and Pepper, How Many Ways? | Science Video - Bendable Bones - Updated |
| Science Video - Iron Cereal | Blog - Science Photo of the Day #720 |
| Science Video - Density Column | FCAT - SC.5.P.8.3-1 |
| Science Experiment - Quick, Easy Crystals | FCAT - SC.5.P.8.3-2 |
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Also assesses SC.5.P.8.2
SC.5.P.9.1 Investigate and describe that many physical and chemical changes are affected by temperature.
| Science Video - The Hottest Part of the Flame? | Science Experiment - Egg Geodes |
| Science Video - Hydrothermal Quartz | Science Video - Igneous Sugar |
| Science Video - A Watched Pot | Science Experiment - Butter Science |
| Science Experiment - Quick, Easy Crystals | Study Unit - Evaporites |
| Study Unit - Crystals | FCAT - SC.5.P.9.1-1 |
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Also assesses SC.3.P.9.1 and SC.4.P.9.1
SC.5.P.10.1 Investigate and describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound, electrical, chemical, and mechanical.
| Science Video - High Bounce | Science Video - Mirage |
| Science Video - Simple Circuit | Science Experiment - Quick, Easy Crystals |
| Science Video - Solar Power | Study Unit - Taking a Marshmallow Apart |
| Science Video - Taking a Marshmallow Apart | Science Video - How Heat Moves |
| Science Experiment - Why Paper Burns | FCAT - SC.5.P.10.1-1 |
| Science Video - Radioactive | FCAT - SC.5.P.10.1-2 |
| Science Video - Matter | FCAT - SC.5.P.10.1-3 |
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Also assesses SC.3.P.10.1, SC.3.P.10.3, SC.3.P.10.4, SC.3.P.11.1, SC.3.P.11.2, SC.4.P.10.1, and SC.4.P.10.3
SC.5.P.10.2 Investigate and explain that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.
| Science Video - High Bounce | Science Experiment - Evaporation |
| Science Experiment - Quick, Easy Crystals |
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Also assesses SC.3.P.10.2, SC.4.P.10.2, and SC.4.P.10.4
SC.5.P.10.4 Investigate and explain that electrical energy can be transformed into heat, light, and sound energy, as well as the energy of motion.
- Science Video - Simple Circuit
- Science Video - Introduction to Light Emitting Diodes
- Science Video - The Leyden Jar
- Science Experiment - Lighting a Light With Static Electricity
- Science Video - Lighting a Bulb With a Balloon
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Also assesses SC.3.E.6.1, SC.4.P.11.1, SC.4.P.11.2, SC.5.P.10.3, SC.5.P.11.1, and SC.5.P.11.2
SC.5.P.13.1 Identify familiar forces that cause objects to move, such as pushes or pulls, including gravity acting on falling objects.
| Science Video - The Old Tablecloth Trick | Science Video - Water in a Glass, Part 3 |
| Science Video - High Bounce | Science Experiment - Three Holes |
| Science Video - Strange Flame, part 1 | Science Experiment - Three Holes, part 2 |
| Science Video - Strange Flame, part 2 | Science Experiment - Rock Stacking |
| Science Video - Floating Cups | FCAT - SC.5.P.13.1-1 |
| Science Video - Water in a Glass, Part 2 |
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Also assesses SC.3.E.5.4 and SC.4.P.8.4
SC.5.P.13.2 Investigate and describe that the greater the force applied to it, the greater the change in motion of a given object.
| Science Video - The Old Tablecloth Trick | Science Video - Pick a String |
| Science Experiment - Newton's Laws | Science Experiment - Three Holes |
| Science Experiment - Inertia | Science Experiment - Three Holes, part 2 |
| Science Video - Floating Cups |
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Also assesses SC.4.P.12.1, SC.4.P.12.2, SC.5.P.13.3, and SC.5.P.13.4
SC.5.L.14.1 Identify the organs in the human body and describe their functions, including the skin, brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, intestines, pancreas, muscles and skeleton, reproductive organs, kidneys, bladder, and sensory organs.
| Science Experiment - Don't Push | Science Video - Bendable Bones - Updated |
| Science Experiment - The Science of Spit | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.1-1 |
| Science Experiment - Tummy Rumbles | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.1-2 |
| Science Experiment - Have a Heart | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.1-3 |
| Science Video - Bird Bones | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.1-4 |
| Science Video - Reading a Skeleton | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.1-5 |
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SC.5.L.14.2 Compare and contrast the function of organs and other physical structures of plants and animals, including humans, for example: some animals have skeletons for support — some with internal skeletons others with exoskeletons — while some plants have stems for support.
| Science Video - Heartless Plants | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.2-1 |
| Science Video - Bird Bones | FCAT - SC.5.L.14.2-2 |
| Science Experiment - Spore Prints |
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Also assesses SC.3.L.15.1 and SC.3.L.15.2
SC.5.L.17.1 Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals and plants that enable them to survive in different environments such as life cycles variations, animal behaviors and physical characteristics.
| Science Video - Hunting With an Umbrella | Study Unit - Secondary Consumers |
| Science Video - Nature Watching | Study Unit - Scavengers and Decomposers |
| Science Video - Seed Search | Science Video - Calling a Woodpecker |
| Science Video - Foodchain: Secondary Consumers | Science Experiment - Bird Behavior |
| Study Unit - Producers | FCAT - SC.5.L.17.1-1 |
| Study Unit - Primary Consumers |
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Also assesses SC.3.L.17.1, SC.4.L.16.2, SC.4.L.16.3, SC.4.L.17.1, SC.4.L.17.4, and SC.5.L.15.1
Although NOT in grade 5 science standards, these benchmark concepts from grade 3 and 4 will be assessed on FCAT 2.0 Science.
SC.3.L.14.1 Describe structures in plants and their roles in food production, support, water and nutrient transport, and reproduction.
| Science Video - Seed Search | Study Unit - Primary Consumers |
| Science Video - Producers | Study Unit - Secondary Consumers |
| Science Video - Heartless Plants | Study Unit - Scavengers and Decomposers |
| Study Unit - Producers |
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Also assesses SC.3.L.14.2; SC.4.L.16.1
SC.4.E.5.4 Relate that the rotation of Earth (day and night) and apparent movements of the Sun, Moon, and stars are connected.
| Science Video - Global Science | Blog - Science Photo of the Day #725 |
| Science Video - Finding Your Way | FCAT - SC.4.E.5.4-1 |
| Science Experiment - Why is a Full Moon So Bright? | FCAT - SC.4.E.5.4-2 |
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Also assesses SC.4.E.5.1; SC.4.E.5.2; SC.4.E.5.3
SC.4.E.6.2 Identify the physical properties of common earth-forming minerals, including hardness, color, luster, cleavage, and streak color, and recognize the role of minerals in the formation of rocks.
| Science Video - Identifying Minerals | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.2-1 |
| Study Unit - What is a Mineral? | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.2-2 |
| Study Unit - Identifying Minerals | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.2-3 |
| Study Unit - Crystals | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.2-4 |
| Science Experiment - Egg Geodes | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.2-5 |
| Study Unit - Evaporites |
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Also assesses SC.4.E.6.1
SC.4.E.6.3 Recognize that humans need resources found on Earth and that these are either renewable or nonrenewable.
| Science Video - Recycle | Study Unit - Minerals Around You |
| Science Experiment - Saving Water | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.3-1 |
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Also assesses SC.4.E.6.6
SC.4.E.6.4 Describe the basic differences between physical weathering (breaking down of rock by wind, water, ice, temperature change, and plants) and erosion (movement of rock by gravity, wind, water, and ice).
| Science Video - Erosion | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.4-4 |
| FCAT - SC.4.E.6.4-1 | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.4-5 |
| FCAT - SC.4.E.6.4-2 | FCAT - SC.4.E.6.4-6 |
| FCAT - SC.4.E.6.4-3 |
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SC.4.L.16.4 Compare and contrast the major stages in the life cycles of Florida plants and animals, such as those that undergo incomplete and complete metamorphosis, and flowering and nonflowering seedbearing
plants.
| Science Experiment - Spore Prints | FCAT - SC.4.L.16.4-2 |
| FCAT - SC.4.L.16.4-1 | FCAT - SC.4.L.16.4-3 |
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SC.4.L.17.3 Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers.
| Science Video - Taking a Marshmallow Apart | Study Unit - What is a Food Web? |
| Science Video - Producers | Study Unit - Taking a Marshmallow Apart |
| Science Video - Foodchain: Primary Consumers | Study Unit - Calories: Measuring the Energy |
| Science Video - Foodchain: Secondary Consumers | Study Unit - Scavengers and Decomposers |
| Study Unit - Producers | FCAT - SC.4.L.17.3-1 |
| Study Unit - Primary Consumers | FCAT - SC.4.L.17.3-2 |
| Study Unit - Secondary Consumers |
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Also assesses SC.3.L.17.2; SC.4.L.17.2
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