Science
6th Grade Science - Mrs. Deborah Corbett
2024-2025 School Year
Students are given vocabulary and notes to study nightly. Please help your student make a plan of where/when/how to study each night. The goal is to get the vocab and concepts into long term memory (when they study only the night before, that is only short term recall). It will help students to draw pictures to represent the material, to be able to explain it aloud to an adult, to come up with ways to memorize the few vocab/concepts they find tricky to remember. For example, "conduction" and "convection" are very similar words and both indicate a type of heat transfer. I remember the difference because I think of the D in conduction as being a handle on a mug (I know if I TOUCH the mug it will be hot) and I think of the V in convection as part of an arrow -> and that makes me think of the two arrows representing the hot rising and the cool sinking. Students often can use my idea, but they also often need to come up with something that means something to their brain (a connection). Your support is important as they make the transition from elementary school to MS/HS where it is necessary to develop good study habits and strategies.
Highlights
Earbuds can easily break in backpack - please put in a hard case for protection (tip - use an "old" mint container)
Supplies - folder, Pencil Pouch, Earbuds (wired)
Students need to study vocab nightly
Dear Parents,
The main homework for SCIENCE is to study the vocabulary (and Study Guide content) each night. Every student studies differently. Please help your student try different activities to find one that works. Quizlet is a good online site that lets you type in vocabulary and then you can play a game or quiz yourself with them. Some students like index cards and some like to quiz aloud with you. Other students write them on post-it notes and hang them on the bathroom mirror to read while they brush their teeth (for example).
Categories and weights will be as follows:
Assessments (quiz, test) - 50%
Classwork - 25%
Stations/Labs - 25%
Thank you, Mrs. Corbett
VOCAB TIP: Students need to know the meaning of the word and how to apply it. They do not have to memorize definition word-for-word.
Example: they will be given some data and they will need to identify it as "qualitative data" or "quantitative data"
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Quarter 2 Overview
Weather & Climate
Energy Transfer and Motion
Types of Forces & Gravity (Q3 also)
Nature of Science (embedded all year, see below)
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Weather & Climate
Unit Driving Question:
How do the transfer of heat and cycling of water throughout the hydrosphere and atmosphere affect weather and climate?
Standards:
SC.6.E.7.6 Differentiate between weather & climate
SC.6.E.7.2 Investigate and apply how the cycling of water between the atmosphere and hydrosphere has an effect on weather patterns & climate
SC.6.E.7.7 Investigate how natural disasters affect human life
SC.6.E.7.8 Describe ways humans protect themselves from hazardous weather & sun exposure
Energy Transfer & Motion
Unit Driving Question: How is energy transformed?
SC.6.P.11.1 Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating between potential and kinetic energy. Identify situations where kinetic energy is transformed into potential energy and vice versa.
Types of Forces & Gravity
Unit Essential Question:
How does force impact the motion of an object?
SC.6.P.13.1. Investigate and describe types of forces including contact forces and forces acting at a distance, such as electrical, magnetic, and gravitational.
SC.6.P.13.2 Recognize that every object exerts a gravitational force on every other object and that the force depends on how much mass the objects have and how far apart they are.
SC.6.P.13.3 Investigate and describe that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed, or direction of motion, or both.
Shaping of Earth's Surface
Unit Driving Question:
How do weathering and erosion cause change on Earth's surfaces as seen in landforms around the Earth?
Standards:
SC.6.E.6.1 Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth's surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition.
SC.6.E.6.2 Recognize that there are a variety of different landforms on Earth's surface such as coastlines, dunes, rivers, mountains, glaciers, deltas, and lakes and relate these landforms as they apply to Florida.
Cells
Body Systems and Infectious Agents
Unit Driving Question:
- How do the structure and function of the human body work together to maintain homeostasis?
- How do infectious agents damage systems of the body?
Standards:
SC.6.L.14.1 Describe and identify patterns in the hierarchical organization of organisms from atoms to molecules and cells to tissues to organs to organ systems to organisms.
SC.6.L.14.3 Recognize and explore how cells of all organisms undergo similar processes to maintain homeostasis, including extracting energy from food, getting rid of waste, and reproducing.
SC.6.L.14.5 Identify and investigate the general functions of the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, reproductive, excretory, immune, nervous, and musculoskeletal) and describe ways these systems interact with each other to maintain homeostasis.
SC.6.L.14.6 Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that may infect the human body, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Classification
SC.6.L.15.1
Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics, with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains
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Vocabulary: please study vocab 10 - 15 minutes each day
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{Unit 1 - Nature of Science is embedded throughout the year}
Unit 1 Nature of Science (embedded all year)
Standards:
SC.6.N.1.1 Define a problem from the sixth grade curriculum, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigation of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
SC.6.N.1.2 Explain why scientific investigations should be replicable.
SC.6.N.1.3 Explain the difference between an experiment and other types of scientific investigation, and explain the relative benefits and limitations of each.
SC.6.N.1.4 Discuss, compare, and negotiate methods used, results obtained, and explanations among groups of students conducting the same investigation.
SC.6.N.1.5 Recognize that science involves creativity, not just in designing experiments, but also in creating explanations that fit evidence.
SC.6.N.2.1 Distinguish science from other activities involving thought.
SC.6.N.2.2 Explain that scientific knowledge is durable because it is open to change as new evidence or interpretations are encountered.
SC.6.N.2.3 Recognize that scientists who make contributions to scientific knowledge come from all kinds of backgrounds and possess varied talents, interests, and goals.
Online Science Textbook (includes text, digital lessons, and more):
Link located on myPascoConnect (the way you get to myStudent) - Discovery Ed
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CURRENT VIDEOS you can watch online:
Study Jams:
Science - select topic
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/index.htm
Kahn Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org
(free - search by topic)
Mr Parr Videos (great for studying vocab and content - he puts info into songs)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqTEqBBPoqwVTbS_6i2lsAmWTaW9312Fl
Fun Science Demos
https://www.youtube.com/user/funsciencedemos
Crash Course for Kids
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
Biology:
https://www.youtube.com/user/AmoebaSisters
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6th Grade Science
Late work on Google Classroom:
If I grade an assignment and your work is missing (from being absent or from being late), please note that I do not go back and look for your work again. Google Classroom does not send me a notification if you do this work late. If you had missing work, you need to post a private comment ON THAT ASSIGNMENT, asking me to re-grade your work. I will get a notification of that post and I will be able to open your assignment and re-grade it from the notification. Thank you.
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GOOGLE CLASSROOM: how to sign in from home...
To login to Google Classroom, you must FIRST login to google.com with your Imagine email and password. (You may be signed in with your personal email already, so you will need to "add another account" the first time or click on your imaginelandolakes.org account after that) You should click on the upper right corner of your screen to do this.
Imagine email: firstname.lastname@imaginelandolakes.org
Password:initials and lunch number (initials are capital letters, no spaces)
Then you can go to Google Classroom. (DO NOT try to go directly to Google Classroom without signing in to google.com first, it will not work)
Pattern for your name:
If it has a hyphen, use a hyphen
If there is an apostrophe, use an apostrophe
For last names with spaces, don't use a space