6th grade Science

Our sixth grade Science curriculum engages students through inquiry and the development of conceptual scientific thinking.  Students explore science through hands on activities supported by the FOSS and Investigating Earth Systems curriculums.  Students learn key concepts about the physical and natural worlds as well as how to think conceptually like scientists.  In each unit students learn to look for patterns and relationships, identify cause and effect, support a claim with evidence, understand scale and proportion, define systems and structures, use engineering to solve problems, understand structure and function, and to identify change and stability in a system over time.  Students explore these ways of thinking through theme-based science units on the following topics:

• Rocks, Minerals, and Soil

• Air and Water

• Earth Systems

• Space

• Energy

• Force and Motion

• Ecology.  

 

Students learn about the nature of science and the work of doing science as a human endeavor.  They learn that all science begins with asking questions about the world around us.  Students apply what they learn to their own scientific inquiry, research, and experimentation in an annual Science Fair.