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Course Description & Pacing Guide:
Course Description & Pacing Guide:
This is a general science course that challenges students to examine the world around them from a scientific perspective. An emphasis is placed on understanding and utilizing a scientific approach to problem solving and discovery. Each unit will focus on Common Core and Essential Standards whose learning targets provide a basis for further study in science.
This is a general science course that challenges students to examine the world around them from a scientific perspective. An emphasis is placed on understanding and utilizing a scientific approach to problem solving and discovery. Each unit will focus on Common Core and Essential Standards whose learning targets provide a basis for further study in science.
Common Core and Essential Standards (CCES) and Pacing Guide:Scientific Inquiry ---- 1st Quarter ---- 7 days
Scientific Process
Collection and Graphing Data
Observations and inferences
Independent and Dependent Variables
6.P.2. – Understand the structure, classification and physical properties of matter --- 30 days
Atoms
Classification of
Phases and Phase Change of Matter
Properties of Matter
6.P.3 – Understand the characteristics of energy, energy transfer and interactions of matter and energy --- 14 days
Forms of energy
Energy Transfer
Technological Design
6.P.1 – Waves and Energy. Understand the properties ofwaves and the wavelike properties of energy in earthquakes,light and sound --- 27 days
Properties of waves
Sound waves
EM waves
Visible light waves
6.E.2 – Earth Systems –understand the structure of the Earthand how interactions of constructive and destructive forceshave resulted in changes in the surface of the Earth over timeand the effects of the lithosphere on humans ---32 days
Earth’s layers
Plate tectonics
Rocks and soil
Stewardship
6.L.1 and 6.L.2– Plants and Ecosystems. Understand thestructures, processes and behaviors of plants that enablethem survive and reproduce --- 26 days
Plant structure and functions
Plant processes
Plant responses
Food chains
Biomes
6.E.1 – Earth and Universe – Understand the Earth/Moon/Sunsystems, and the properties, structures and predictablemotion of celestial bodies in the Universe --- 30 days
Earth/Moon/Sun
Solar System
Space Exploration
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