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 19 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.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
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Answer key — Protecting What We Depend On
Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.
1.An energy-saving measure with a stated measurement and a period over which it would be checked.
2.An extension of composting using the 40 kg to 14 kg figures, what it protects, and a drawback such as space or smell.
More practice for 5-ESS3-1
Gather information on how communities use science to protect resources.
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