NGSS, Utah SEEd

5th Grade Science Bell Ringers for Ecosystems, Plants’ Needs, and Energy Use

Do you need 5th-grade Science Bell Ringers?

5th grade science bell ringers are an excellent way to warm up, review, or just give yourself a short break to get set up.

This set of 21 5th-grade science bell ringers covers the movement of matter in ecosystems, trophic levels, consumers and producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food webs, food chains, and much more!

Your download includes 21 bell ringers in printable as well as digital format via Google Forms™

Using the digital bell ringers is very easy! Simply open the document, scroll to the page with the list of digital bell ringers, and click on the bell ringer you want to assign. A clean copy of the bell ringer will be instantly copied to your Google Drive!

Do you want some 5th-grade science bell ringers? They are a great way to review 5th-grade science concepts on Ecosystems, Plants’ needs, and how energy from food is used to run our bodies. This set includes 21 bell ringers for 5th-grade Science. Each bell ringer will take about ten minutes for students to complete. This is SET TWO for 5th-grade Bell Ringers and covers a different set of standards than SET ONE. They come in printable full-page format (PDF) and Google Forms™.

What is included in the 5th grade Science Bell Ringers?

21 printable bell ringers (full page)
21 Google Forms™ (self-grading)
Answer Keys

This is a standards-aligned resource, covering NGSS 5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1, 5-LS2-1, as well as Utah SEEd 5.3.

With all of my standards-aligned resources, you can be sure you are covering the essential information.

NGSS 5-PS3-1: Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun

NGSS 5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

NGSS 5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Utah SEEd 5.3.1: Construct an explanation that plants use air, water, and energy from sunlight to produce plant matter needed for growth. Emphasize photosynthesis at a conceptual level, and that plant matter comes mostly from air and water, not from the soil. Photosynthesis at the cellular level will be taught in Grades 6 through 8.

Utah SEEd 5.3.2: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information that animals obtain energy and matter from the food they eat for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth. Emphasize that the energy used by animals was once energy from the Sun. Cellular respiration will be taught in Grades 6 through 8.

Utah SEEd 5.3.3: Develop and use a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Emphasize that matter cycles between the air and soil and among plants, animals, and microbes as these organisms live and die. Examples could include simple food chains from ecosystems such as deserts or oceans or diagrams of decomposers returning matter to the environment. Complex interactions in a food web will be taught in Grades 6 through 8.

Other 5th-grade science teachers LOVE these bell ringers!

Check out more of the perfect reviews on Teachers Pay Teachers.

At the start of class, these give me a few minutes to take roll and collect paper while the students work on them and they have turned out to be a great review for science too!
-Camille J.

This is a great resource for starting the day. I am using these with my 5th grade students and I love that the questions include diagrams and graphs.
-Zoe S.