All 5th Grade Lessons

Creating-Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Students will be able to identity and create a food chain for the Milkweed Bug. They will be able to define key vocabulary for food chains.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5.C
Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.

Students will create a food web. They will be able to explain the difference between a food chain and a food web.

Students will understand how energy is transferred as it moves up a food chain/web.

Since Milkweed Bugs are pests and have no predators, these insects will need to be disposed of in a particular way, rather than released into the wild.

Students will be able to set up a habitat for their milkweed bugs and raise them to adulthood from an egg. They will be able to care for their insect colony for the duration of the project and observe the impact that temperature change has on the organisms. They will keep track of failure points and difficulties throughout the duration...

Since this is an introductory lesson, it is the shortest of the 8 lessons. If you would like to combine lesson 1.1 and 1.2 feel free to since combined these lessons take approximately 50-60 minutes to complete.

Students will learn about photosynthesis. They will be able to identify and demonstrate their knowledge of what is needed for photosynthesis and what is created as a result.