Grade 5 Project
The Moorvale River Park Dam: A Water Safety Sign and Family Guide
A grade 5 health project in which teams study the hidden current below a small river dam and design a warning sign and family safety guide for a fictional park.
Water Health & Consumer Science · Grade 5
These materials address hydration, water safety, and home water use, and treat reading a water bill or a water quality report as a practical consumer skill.
14 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 5 Writing prompt
The Nakashima Well in Bellmoor: Test Every Year or Only When Needed?
A grade 5 opinion writing prompt in which students use fact cards on private wells, hidden contaminants, and test cost to advise a fictional family on well testing.
Grade 5 Lab / experiment
Covered or Open: Tracking Tap Water Chlorine at Wintercress
A grade 5 health lab in which students store tap water three ways, track its chlorine with test strips for a day, and graph the readings to set a storage rule.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Alder Grove PE Water Log: A Grade 5 Coordinate Graphing Activity
Groups plot a fictional class's bottle readings as coordinate pairs of minutes and ounces, then compare how fast two water bottles emptied during one PE period.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Castlebrook Day Camp's Hydration Tank: Volume in Gallons
A grade 5 lesson in which students find the volume of a fictional camp's water tanks in cubic feet and convert those cubic feet into gallons.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
The Danner Family's Three-Day Emergency Water Supply
A grade 5 consumer lesson in which students plan a fictional family's three-day emergency water supply, converting quarts to gallons and working with decimals.
Grade 5 Worksheet
The Dorsey Family's Filter Pitcher: Dividing by Unit Fractions
A grade 5 worksheet in which students divide whole numbers by unit fractions to decide how long a fictional family's water filter cartridge will last.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Bottle Labels for the Fernwick Field Trip: Milliliters to Liters
A grade 5 worksheet in which students convert bottle labels from milliliters to liters and back while planning drinking water for a fictional class field trip.
Grade 5 Reading passage
The Week the Fountains Were Off at Glenbarrow School
A grade 5 reading passage about a fictional school whose fountains close during a pipe repair, with questions on flushing, testing, and brown tap water.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Rinse and Refill at Hollybrook: A Water Bottle Cleaning Rotation
A grade 5 four-station rotation on cleaning reusable water bottles, in which students inspect bottle parts and measure their rinse water in cups and quarts.
Grade 5 Graphic organizer
Before, During, and After Practice: A Marbury Hydration Plan
A grade 5 three-row planning organizer for drinking water before, during, and after practice, with a cups-to-quarts total and a filled exemplar from a fictional club.
Grade 5 Worksheet
The Petrosino Family's Drain Rules: What Belongs and What Does Not
A grade 5 worksheet on a fictional town's drain flyer, in which students explain where used water goes and sort household items by whether they may go down a drain.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Redbank Cove Beach Advisory: Rain Totals and Safe Swimming
A grade 5 health lesson in which students add and compare decimal rainfall totals to decide whether a fictional town's swimming beach stays open after a storm.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Reading a Family's Water Meter: A Grade 5 Consumer Skills Lesson
A 45-minute grade 5 lesson that pairs decimal subtraction and division on realistic water meter readings with a short discussion of hydration.