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🔬 5th Grade · Science5-PS3-1Unit 2: Matter & energy in ecosystems

Energy from the sun

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🎯 Objective: Students model how energy in food was once energy from the sun.

Lesson outline

  1. Trace a meal to the sun.
  2. Model.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: draw the energy path.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

5-PS3-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 5 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain plants get matter from air and water
  • Model energy from the sun through food webs
  • Model matter cycling among organisms

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Matter & energy in ecosystems”

  1. Plants get matter from air and water
  2. Energy from the sun
  3. Food webs
  4. Decomposers

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