Week at a Glance

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            UPDATED:  Friday, October 17, 2025

6th Grade Science

Objective:  Students demonstrate prior knowledge about thermal energy transfers.

Activities:  Lesson Three Launch: Science Probe: Hot Soup Page 53; Encounter the Phenomenon: Visualizing Thermal Energy Pages 54/55.  Brainpop: Heat Transfer.

Homework:  IDEAS: Thermal energy flows from. . . . to . . . . .  Page 56 in complete sentences.


TUESDAY  10/21/25           Day  1

Objective:   Students tack the low of energy to recognize that energy transfer depends on the environment.

Activities:   VIRTUAL LAB: Transferring Temperature Pages 58/59. Reading: Systems and Energy Page 59

Homework:  Three Dimensional Thinking Page 60 in 2-3 neat and complete sentences.


  Objective:   Students use CONDUCTION to understand why there is always a change in energy somewhere else whenever the energy of a substance changes.

Activities:  Readings: Direction of Thermal Energy Transfer Page 60;  Conduction Page 61; Three-Dimensional Thinking Page 61.

Homework:  Language Building Activity: Thermal Energy.


11:30 RELEASE Conferences

 Objective:  Students track the flow of energy from a beaker of warm water to the cold water and air that surround it.

Activities:   VIRTUAL LAB:  Transferring Temperature Over Time. Pages 62-63; Reading: Thermal Equilibrium Page 63.

Homework:  Collect Evidence "A" Page 56 in 2-3 neat and complete sentences.

 

11:30 RELEASE Conferences

 Objective:  Students will investigate how thermal energy is transferred by radiation.

Activities:   Virtual Lab: Lights ON Pages 64-65.

Homework:   Collect Evidence "B" Page 56 in 2-3 neat and complete sentences.



  




 


 







  


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