In the classroom, I integrate the NGSS standards into GLAD units of study as well as Mystery Science online.  GLAD is an acronym for Guided Language Acquisition and Design.  It is an approach to teaching language acquisition through very engaging, purposeful, and meaningful strategies.  At the center of GLAD are the science and social studies standards.  Through GLAD, students will learn about each unit of study through team collaboration, oral language experiences, anchor charts and visual supports, concrete objects, literature and informational text, songs and chants, informational writing, projects, and experiences in which they become “experts” through reading and research in a certain topic or domain and teach others what they have learned.  In my experience with this approach, students take ownership of their learning and learn important life skills such as cooperation, responsibility, and interdependence.

These are the online Mystery Science Units we will be covering:

Web of Life (Life Science Unit): Ecosystems and the Food Web

The food materials and energy that our bodies use for growth ultimately come from plants. Plants in turn derive their materials from air, water, and soil and their energy from the sun. Thus in a very real way, our bodies come from the earth and the sun. And when we die, decomposers return our materials and energy to the earth, to be used again by future organisms. The whole of nature forms a great system–the ecosystem.

Watery Planet (Earth Science Unit): Water Cycle, Resources, & Systems

This unit helps students develop the idea that water is a profoundly important natural resource, but one which requires surprising ingenuity to find and maintain.

Spaceship Earth (Space Science Unit): Sun, Moon, Stars & Planets

This astronomy unit helps students develop a new perspective on the world they’re standing on. They will be given evidence that the Earth beneath our feet is actually moving through space, both spinning on its axis, and traveling in a great orbit around the Sun. They will see how these movements account for the patterns we see in our sky (the paths of our Sun across the sky, the changing seasons, and the changing constellations). Accompanying us on this journey are the Moon and planets, which the students will observe have their own patterns of movement in the sky.

Chemical Magic (Physical Science Unit): Chemical Reactions & Properties of Matter

This unit helps students develop the concepts of “substances” and “chemical reactions.” Students see that chemical reactions enable us to make new materials by transforming the ones we have. The results of these reactions are interesting and sometimes profoundly useful. 

Here are the fifth grade NGSS Standards:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssstandards.asp