Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
5th grade ecosystem roles worksheet: label producers, consumers, and decomposers, then read a food web and predict what happens to the hawks.
5th Grade Ecosystems Worksheets
NGSS 5-LS2: developing a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
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Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Sort
Sort 15 organisms, from corn to bread mold, into producers, consumers, and decomposers with this 5th grade ecosystem card sort. Answer key included.
Tracing Energy from the Sun
5th grade concept map tracing energy from the sun through prairie producers, herbivores, and carnivores, plus a hamburger trail and a branch of your own.
Food Web Labeling
Label a woodland food web with oak tree, grasses, rabbit, deer, fox, hawk, mushrooms, and soil. 5th grade flow of matter worksheet with answer key.
How Plants Get What They Need
5th grade reading on van Helmont's willow tree experiment, with retrieval questions, a claim and evidence task, and an answer key on how plants grow.
Matter and Energy in Ecosystems Recap
5th grade ecosystems recap: trace lunch to the sun, fix a sentence about plants and soil, explain mushrooms, and contrast matter cycling with energy flow.
Curriculum objectives covered
5-LS2-1
“Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.”
5-PS3-1
“Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.”
5-LS1-1
“Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.”
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