6th Grade Science

6th grade

Scientific method

1. Lab Safety and lab tools

2. SI

3. Scientific Inquiry and Process

4. Developing Scientific Questions and Researching Background Information

5. Developing a Hypothesis

6. Determining Variables and Forming Operational Definitions

7. Writing Procedures

8. Collecting Data and Interpreting Data with Graphs

9. Drawing Conclusions and Communicating Results

Chemistry

1. Periodic table

2. Elements

3. States of matter

4. physical properties, chemical properties and changes

5. Acid and base

6. Mixtures and solutions

Astronomy

1. Revolution and Rotation

2. Earth in Space - seasons

3. Phases, eclipses and tides

4. Solar system

5. The sun

6. Inner and outer planets

7. Stars

Ecology

1. What is ecology

2. Populations

3. Interactions

4. predator / prey

5. Succession

6. Water cycle

7. Food chains

8. Food pyramids

9. biomes

Earth’s Changing Surface

1. Explain how weathering and erosion affect Earth’s surface

2. Identify what causes chemical and mechanical weathering

3. Describe the composition of soil and explain how it forms

4. Identify the roles of plants and animals in soil formation

5. Describe the process that wears down and builds up Earth’s surface

6. Explain how water erosion is mainly responsible for shaping the surface of the land

7. Explain how glaciers cause erosion and deposition

8. Identify features that result from deposition and erosion by waves

Sound and light (Electromagnetic waves)

1. Recognize waves carry energy not matter

2. Compare and contrast compressional waves and transverse waves

3. Identify the parts of a wave – wavelength, frequency, period, amplitude, crest, trough

4. Explain how a waves amplitude and energy are related

5. Calculate wave speed

6. Explain why waves change direction when they travel from one medium to another

7. Compare and contrast refraction and diffraction

8. Describe constructive and destructive interference

9. Describe properties of electromagnetic waves

10. Compare the various types of electromagnetic waves – x rays, ultraviolet, gamma, infrared

11. Distinguish between AM and FM radio

12. Identify different uses of radio waves