Fifth Grade Thinking Maps with Sciencesaurus
Kit / SE / Reading / Thinking Map
The Natural World II
Earth Science)
5.6B / Sciencesaurus pages (Water cycle) 188-189 / Tree Map of the water cycle listing solids, liquids, and gases in the cycle
Bridge Map with relating factor “is important to us because” with examples from the water cycle
5.11A
5.12A / Sciencesaurus pages 170-175 / Multi-Flow with cause/effect relationships of forces on landforms
Tree Map with forces as major categories and what results from those forces
Double Bubble to compare/contrast erosion, weathering
5.11B / Sciencesaurus pages 164-165, 167 / Double Bubble to compare/contrast types of rocks to sedimentary rocks
Flow Map to show different processes to make sedimentary rocks
Circle Map with characteristics of sedimentary rocks
5.11C / Sciencesaurus pages 319-321,
(321-323 see below),
324-333 / Circle Map for renewable resources
Circle Map for nonrenewable resources
Circle Map for inexhaustible resources
Double Bubble to compare/contrast renewable and nonrenewable, nonrenewable and inexhaustible, etc.
Tree Map with types of resources and examples of each
Tree Map with types of energy and examples of uses of each
Tree Map with types of natural resources and uses of each
Bridge Map with relating factor “is needed for” or “without ____ we _____”
5.12B / Sciencesaurus pages 321-323, 331, 160 / Flow Map with formation of fossil fuels
Flow Map with formation of minerals
Double Bubble comparing/contrasting minerals and rocks
Living Systems I and II
5.6C / Sciencesaurus pages 84-87 / Flow map of the life cycle of a particular plant or animal
5.9A
5.10B / Sciencesaurus pages 88-97 / Bridge Map with relating factor of “move by”
Bridge Map with of sensory organ and use (include name of organism with organ)
Double Bubble to compare/contrast instructive behaviors and learned behaviors
Tree Map of types of tropism
5.9B / Sciencesaurus pages 76-77, 128-131, 133-138 / Circle Map defining adaptation, niche, habitat, ecosystem, producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
Tree Map with examples of any of the above terms
Double Bubble comparing/contrasting any of the above related terms
Circle Map with organism in the middle and description of its roles in the niche in the outer circle
Brace Map with communities, populations, species, parts in a particular ecosystem
5.10A / Sciencesaurus page 82 / Make a Tree Map of the traits you have that come from your mother, your father
5.11A / Sciencesaurus page 83 / Tree Map with 2 ways organisms change and example of how humans change