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 17 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.Compost cut the school's waste from 40 kg to 14 kg. Propose extending it, and judge the idea.
Use the compost figures
Say what it protects
Name one drawback
2.Your school uses 48 parts in 100 of its water on toilets. Propose a way to protect that resource.
Name the measure
Say how much water it would save
Say what it would cost
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Answer key — Protecting What We Depend On
Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.
1.An extension of composting using the 40 kg to 14 kg figures, what it protects, and a drawback such as space or smell.
2.A measure reducing the toilet share of the school's water use, with an estimate of the saving and a cost.
More practice for 5-ESS3-1
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