Grade 6 Science
9 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Grade focus: Wayfinding - Making Sense of Your World.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to answer questions about relationships between and among variables observed in natural and technical sensory systems.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
- Scientific Literacy: Communication. Communicate procedure, result, and conclusion using a variety of media and working collaboratively.
- Learning and Living Sustainably: Responsible and Sustainable Application. Apply scientific and technological knowledge and an understanding of sustainable practices responsibly with respect to natural and technical sensory systems.
Units
Unit 1
Static Electricity
How rubbing moves electrons, why like charges repel and opposite charges attract, static sparks and lightning, and how static differs from current electricity.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · static electricity
Unit 2
Circuits
Conductors and insulators, what each part of a circuit does, and how series and parallel circuits behave and where each is used.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · electrical energy flowing through circuits and materials
Unit 3
Flight
The four forces of flight and how balanced and unbalanced forces change motion, how air makes flight possible, how birds, bats and insects fly, and the impacts of aviation.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · the forces that influence flight
Unit 4
Earth, Moon and Sun
Why we have day and night, seasons, Moon phases, eclipses and tides, and which bodies give off light and which reflect it.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · Earth, the Moon and the Sun
Unit 5
Our Solar System
The planets in order, rocky versus giant planets, reading a table of planet data, moons, dwarf planets, comets and the asteroid belt.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · the Sun, planets and moons of our solar system
Unit 6
Galaxies & Space Tech
Our place in the Milky Way, light-years and other galaxies, telescopes, satellites and Canadian space technology, and how Indigenous peoples have observed and shared knowledge of the sky.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · galaxies and space technology
Unit 7
Gravity and Space Tech
The difference between mass and weight, how gravity changes weight, how astronauts meet their needs in space, and how space technology helps us understand Earth and space.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · gravity and the technology of space exploration
Unit 8
Sorting Living Things
Telling mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish apart, vertebrates from invertebrates, the kingdoms, and the levels of classification.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · sorting living things into groups
Unit 9
Biodiversity
Why a variety of life makes species and communities more resilient, how species depend on each other, and why biodiversity matters to people.
Skill descriptor: Learning and Living Sustainably: Responsible and Sustainable Application · the variety of life and how living things depend on one another
Ready to try Gradelings?
Curriculum-matched practice for Kindergarten to Grade 9 in British Columbia and Ontario and Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba and Yukon and Northwest Territories and Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, with kind hints, learning games and no ads. Subscribe now, or try everything free for 30 days with no card.