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Everything you need to teach Earth's systems, water cycle, human impacts, stars, and space patterns. Standards-aligned reading passages, worksheets, and activities for 5th grade — all inside your Workybooks library.
Every resource on this page is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for 5th grade Earth and space science.
Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.
Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.
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Lesson 1: Earth's Four Spheres
Your Workybooks subscription includes this entire earth and space science unit — plus thousands more standards-aligned resources across K–8 Science, ELA, Math, and Social Studies.
In fifth grade, students investigate Earth and space science through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), exploring how Earth's four systems interact, how water is distributed across the planet, how human activity impacts Earth's resources, and how patterns in the sky reveal Earth's movements.
The 5-ESS standards ask students to engage with four big ideas: modeling interactions among Earth's spheres, analyzing data about Earth's water distribution, evaluating human impacts on Earth's systems, and supporting arguments about star brightness and distance.
At Workybooks, we've built this complete 5th grade Earth and space science unit around NGSS performance expectations 5-ESS1-1, 5-ESS2-1, 5-ESS2-2, and 5-ESS3-1. Each topic includes a standards-aligned reading passage at the right Lexile level for 5th graders, plus worksheets, activities, and anchor charts.
