Protecting What We Depend On is a free printable Grade 5 science worksheet on how communities use science to protect Earth's resources and environment, aligned to Common Core standard 5-ESS3-1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 15 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 16 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 15 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Protecting What We Depend On
5-ESS3-1
NameDate
Write your answer. Use the checklist.
1.A community wants to cut the energy it uses. Propose a measure and say how you would check it worked.
Name the measure
Say what you would measure
Say over what period
2.Willow roots held one section of river bank in a storm. Propose using that, and judge it.
Use the storm evidence
Say what it would protect
Name a limit
LessonPrint · 5-ESS3-1 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Protecting What We Depend On
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
1.An energy-saving measure with a stated measurement and a period over which it would be checked.
2.Planting willow along the bank, justified by the section that lost almost no soil, with a limit such as the time it takes to grow.
More practice for 5-ESS3-1
Gather information on how communities use science to protect resources.
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