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🔬 5th Grade · Science5-ESS2-1Unit 3: Earth’s systems

Four spheres

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🎯 Objective: Students model how Earth’s spheres interact.

Lesson outline

  1. Sphere sort.
  2. Model.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one interaction.

Lesson 1 of 3 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-ESS2-1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Model interactions of geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere
  • Graph Earth’s water distribution
  • Describe ways communities protect resources

✅ 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 “Earth’s systems”

  1. Four spheres
  2. Water on Earth
  3. Protecting resources

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