6th Grade Science TopicS

6th Grade Life Science Topics 

The Biosphere

• • Abiotic & Biotic Factors

  • Biomes & Ecosystems

Populations

• • Competition

  • Population Size

  • Changes in Populations

Communities

• • Producers/Consumers

  • Symbiotic Relationships                                                                                                                                    .

  • Predation

Predator/Prey Relationships

Food Webs & Energy Transfer

6th Grade Earth Science Topics

Natural Resources

• • Renewable and non-renewable

  • Types of resources and availability

  • How resources are applied in community

Fossil Fuels & Alternative Energy

Cycles in Nature

• • Water Cycle

  • Carbon Cycle

  • Nitrogen Cycle

Environmental Conditions and Global Impacts6th Grade Physical Science Topics                                                                             

Characteristics of Matter                                                                                                                             

• • Mass vs Weight

  • Bonds (attraction)

  • Energy (movements)

Properties of Common States of Matter

Changes in States of Matter (what happens at the molecular level)

• • Melting

  • Evaporating

  • Condensing                                                                                                                                                

  • Freezing                                                                                                                                                      

  • Sublimation

  • Deposition

Density

• • Regular & irregular displacement

  • Calculating density

Atomic Model

• • Charges (proton, neutron, electron)

  • Structure:

    • Protons, neutrons, electrons (movement/location & charges)

    • How an atom is organized (diagram)

  • Define atomic number, mass number, net charge

  • Net charges

  • Bonding

Chemical & Physical Reactions