Give your Grade 5 class more practice with scientific investigations using six Alberta Science learning station activities, with 5 stations in each resource and 30 stations altogether. This Grade 5 science learning stations bundle brings together scientific question formation, variables, fair testing, evidence, and data communication, so you can work through the investigation process without searching for separate activities.

🔬 What's Included

The six resources are organised around connected investigation skills, with each set offering a different focus.

• Variables and Fair Testing: Explore how variables affect investigations and why conditions need to be controlled when comparing results.
• Scientific Question Formation: Practise developing clear, testable questions that can guide a scientific investigation.
• Fair Testing Investigations: Look more closely at planning fair comparisons and keeping testing conditions consistent.
• Scientific Evidence and Investigation: Examine how observations and evidence help scientists investigate questions.
• Evidence and Investigation: Give students another set of cases for examining scientific findings and the evidence behind conclusions.
• Data Communication and Evidence: Focus on organising and presenting scientific information so results can be compared and explained.

Each activity contains 5 learning stations, giving you 30 stations across the complete Evidence and Investigation unit bundle.

📋 Topics and Skills Covered

• Forming testable scientific questions
• Identifying variables in experiments
• Controlling conditions for fair testing
• Planning scientific investigations
• Making and comparing observations
• Recognising scientific evidence
• Interpreting evidence from investigations
• Communicating data and scientific findings
• Using evidence to explain conclusions

These topics connect the early stages of scientific inquiry with the later work of examining results. Rather than treating fair testing and evidence as unrelated lessons, the activities help students see how decisions made during an investigation affect the conclusions they can draw.

🏫 How Teachers Can Use It

Use the Grade 5 science learning stations during small-group rotations, assigning different groups to stations before they move to the next case. You can introduce the question formation and variables activities first, then bring out the evidence and data communication sets as students become more familiar with scientific investigations.

The individual station sets also work well for revisiting specific skills. If students are struggling to recognise what makes a comparison fair, pull out the fair testing stations again. Keep the evidence activities available when the class needs more practice explaining conclusions from observations.

💰 Bundle Savings

Buying all six resources separately would cost $24.00. This bundle costs $19.20, saving $4.80 (20%).

For that price, you receive six connected Grade 5 science learning stations activities with 30 stations covering questions, variables, fair testing, evidence, and communication. Having the activities together makes it easier to plan a sequence of investigation lessons or choose a particular skill to review later.