Table of Contents

Curriculum Expectations

From the Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes K-12, Pan-Canadian Protocol for Collaboration on School Curriculum, Council of Ministers of Education,
Canada (CMEC), 1997.

Grade 5: Forces and Simple Machines

Skills

• communicate questions, ideas, and intentions, and listen to others while conducting investigations;

• estimate measurements;

• select and use tools for measuring;

• identify new questions or problems that arise from what was learned;

• plan a set of steps to solve a practical problem and to carry out a fair test of a science-related idea;

• propose questions to investigate and practical problems to solve.

Science, Technology, Society and the Environment

• describe instances where scientific ideas and discoveries have led to new inventions and applications;

• describe examples of technologies that have been developed to improve their living conditions.

Knowledge

• demonstrate an understanding of coordinate systems on grids;

• use mathematical language effectively to describe geometric coordinate systems.