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GRADE 6 SCIENCE CURRICULUM
SCIENCE PROCESSESInquiry Process Students Will: Generate scientific questions Design and conduct investigations Use tools and equipment to investigate Use metric measurement tools Construct charts and graphs Identify patterns in data Inquiry Analysis and Communication Students Will: Analyze information from data tables and graphs Evaluate data, claims, and personal knowledge through collaborative learning Communicate and defend findings using evidence Draw conclusions from sets of data from multiple trials Use multiple sources of information to evaluate strengths and weaknesses Reflection and Social Implications Students Will: Evaluate claims, arguments, and data Describe limitations in personal and scientific knowledge Identify the need for evidence in making decisions Demonstrate knowledge of scientific concepts Design solutions to problems using technology Describe the effects of humans have on the balance in the natural world Describe how science and technology have advanced throughout history and across cultures PHYSICAL SCIENCE: ENERGYKinetic and Potential Energy Students Will: Identify kinetic and potential energy in everyday situations Demonstrate transformation between potential and kinetic energy in simple mechanical systems - Roller coaster or pendulum Energy Transfer Students Will: Transfer of energy from one place to another - Radiation - Conduction - Convection Changes in Matter / Changes in State Students Will: Illustrate and describe changes in state - Arrangement of atoms - Relative motion Conservation of Mass in a closed system LIFE SCIENCE: ORGANIZATION OF LIVING THINGSProducers, Consumers and Decomposers Students Will: Classify Organisms based on their source of energy Distinguish ways in which consumers and decomposers obtain energy Ecosystems Interactions of Organisms Students Will: List examples of populations, communities, and ecosystems in the Great Lakes region Relationships of Organisms Describe common patterns of relationships between and among populations - Competition - Parasitism - Symbiosis - Predator/prey Explain how two populations can be mutually beneficial and how this can lead to interdependency Predict how changes in one population might affect other populations based on relationships in the food web Biotic and Abiotic Factors Students Will: Identify living and nonliving components of an ecosystem Identify factors in an ecosystem that influence changes in population size Environmental Impact of Organisms Students Will: Describe how human beings is part of the ecosystem of the Earth - Purposeful vs. accidental alteration of the balance in ecosystems EARTH SCIENCE: SOLID EARTHSoils Students Will: Explain physical and chemical weathering lead to erosion and formation of soils and sediment Explain how waves, wind, water and glacier movement reshape the land surface - Erosion - Deposition Describe soil Compare soil samples based on particle size and texture
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