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 18 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 protect its river from soil washing in. Propose a way, using evidence.
Name the measure
Use evidence about soil and plants
Name who has to act
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 18 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Protecting What We Depend On
Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.
1.A measure such as planting the bank, justified by evidence that roots hold soil, naming who has to act.
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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