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Everything you need to teach photosynthesis, food chains, ecosystems, and how matter cycles through living systems. 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 life science.
Use models to describe that energy in animals' food was once energy from the sun.
Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
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In fifth grade, students explore life science through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), tracing energy from the sun through food chains and modeling how matter cycles through ecosystems. Students build a deep understanding of photosynthesis, food webs, and decomposers.
The 5-LS standards ask students to engage with three big ideas: using models to show that energy in animals' food comes from the sun, supporting arguments that plants get materials from air and water, and modeling the movement of matter among organisms and the environment.
At Workybooks, we've built this complete 5th grade life science unit around NGSS performance expectations 5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1, and 5-LS2-1. Each topic includes a standards-aligned reading passage at the right Lexile level for 5th graders, plus worksheets, activities, and anchor charts.
