5th Grade Science Vocabulary Cards & Big Idea Posters for NGSS

Unlock a world of scientific knowledge for fifth-grade students with our comprehensive set of Science Vocabulary Cards and Big Idea Posters. Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for 5th grade, these resources provide a robust foundation for scientific exploration and understanding.

Our Science Vocabulary Cards and Big Idea Posters are included in our 5th-grade Science Station UNIT BUNDLES.

Included in the 5th Grade Vocabulary and Big Idea Posters:

EARTH SCIENCE

• 117 Vocabulary Cards
• 47 Big Idea Posters
• Some of the included words: adaptation, aquifer, astronomer, atmosphere, atom, axis, biosphere, carnivore, closed lake, cloud, compost, condensation, constellation, contamination, crop rotation, deposition, deforestation, desalination, down-cycle, drought, ecosystem, environment, erosion, exosphere, evaporation, fertilizer, first quarter, fishery, fossil fuel, full moon, galaxy, geosphere, glacier, gravitational force, greenhouse gas, green house effect, groundwater, hemisphere, herbivore, hill, hydrosphere, ice cap, ice wedging, igneous rock, kingdom, lake, landfill, landform, last quarter, lava, lunar, lunar eclipse, lunar phase, magma, main sequence star, marine, metamorphic rock, mesosphere, microorganism, migrate, molecular cloud, moon, mountain, mulch, native species, new moon, nuclear fusion, nucleus, omnivore, open lake, orbit, organism, overfishing, ozone layer, permafrost ,pesticide, photosynthesis, plain, plate tectonics, plateau, pollution, prairie, precipitation, prevailing winds, producer, proton, protostar, rain shadow, recycle, revolve, rock cycle, rotate, runoff, sediment, sedimentary rock, soil, solar, solar eclipse, star, stratosphere, supernova, surface water, sustainability, thermosphere, tributary, troposphere, universe, up-cycle, waning crescent, waning gibbous, water cycle, watershed, watershed divide, waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, weathering, windward

LIFE SCIENCE

• 23 Vocabulary Words
• 15 Big Idea Posters
• Some of the included words: carnivore, cell, cellular respiration, chlorophyll, chloroplast, consumer, decomposer, dormant, ecosystem, energy, food chain, food web, herbivore, leaf, mitochondrion, photosynthesis, omnivore, photosynthesis, producer, root, seed, soil, stem

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

• 49 Vocabulary Words
• 34 Big Idea Posters
• Some of the included words: air resistance, atom, atom number, boiling point, cell, cellular respiration, chemical change, chemical equation, chemical property of matter, chemical reaction, chemical symbol, chloroplast, chlorophyll, dissolve, electron, elements, energy, force, freezing point, friction, gravitational force, group, isotopes, law of conservation of energy, law of conservation of mass, mass, matter, melting point, metalloids, metals, mitochondrion, mixture, molecule, neutron, nonmetals, nucleus, periodic table of elements, photosynthesis, physical change, physical property of matter, products, properties, proton, reactants, solute, solution, solvent, state of matter, weight