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 23 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.A town's fresh water is a tiny share of all its water. Propose one way to protect it.
Name the measure
Say why fresh water is scarce
Say who benefits
LessonPrint · 5-ESS3-1 · Set 23 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Protecting What We Depend On
Set 23. 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.A measure protecting fresh water, with the point that fresh liquid water is under 1 part in 100, and who benefits.
More practice for 5-ESS3-1
Gather information on how communities use science to protect resources.
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