5th Grade Week 3 F & C

to search and discover information about something

• Explore

• Analysis
• Survey
• Wander

to spin in place

• investigate

• rotate

• pattern

• tilt

a group of stars that forms a shape

• star cluster
• constellation
• nebula
• galaxy

a force that pulls everything toward the center of Earth

• friction
• buoyancy
• gravity
• tension

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

An area from which light is blocked.

• light source
• glow
• reflection
• shadow

an ancient clock that uses the sun's shadow to tell time

• sundial
• mechanical clock
• water clock
• hourglass

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a scientist who studies stars, planets, and other objects in space

• geologist
• biologist
• astronomer
• meteorologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

the time it takes for the Earth to spin once around

• minute

• decade

• year

• day

something that we notice to be similar over and over again

• theme
• trend
• design
• pattern

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a unit that measures distance, not time: the distance light travels in one year

• kilometer
• mile
• parsec
• light-year