What your child learns in Grade 6 in Saskatchewan

Big Ideas

• Number (N6.1–N6.9): Demonstrate understanding of place value. Demonstrate understanding of factors and multiples. Demonstrate understanding of the order of operations on whole numbers (excluding exponents) with and without… (and 6 more outcomes)
• Patterns and Relations (P6.1–P6.3): Extend understanding of patterns and relationships in tables of values and graphs. Extend understanding of preservation of equality concretely, pictorially, physically, and symbolically. Extend understanding of patterns and relationships by using expressions and equations involving variables.
• Shape and Space (SS6.1–SS6.5): Demonstrate understanding of angles. Extend and apply understanding of perimeter of polygons, area of rectangles, and volume of right rectangular… Demonstrate understanding of regular and irregular polygons. (and 2 more outcomes)

15 units, including thousandths to billions, facts & factors, decimal × and ÷, percents & budgets.

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• Comprehend and Respond (CR6.1–CR6.8): View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity (e.g., Growing Up)… Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning before, during, and after (e.g., drawing conclusions)… Use pragmatic (e.g., function and purpose of texts), textual (e.g., form/genre, sequence of ideas), syntactic… (and 5 more outcomes)
• Compose and Create (CC6.1–CC6.9): Create various visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore identity (e.g., Your Choices), social… Select and use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before (e.g., identifying purpose and audience)… Use pragmatic (e.g., function and purpose), textual (e.g., paragraphs), syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological… (and 6 more outcomes)
• Assess and Reflect on Language Abilities (AR6.1–AR6.3): Consider which viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing strategies work best for each task… Appraise own viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing skills and strategies, and set goals… Appraise own and others' work for clarity. Units Going the Distance Growing Up Messages Peace And Conflict Taking…

10 units, including close reading, point of view, figurative language, connotation & tone.

Big Ideas

• Life Science: Diversity of Living Things (DL6.1–DL6.5): Recognize, describe, and appreciate the diversity of living things in local and other ecosystems, and explore… Examine how humans organize understanding of the diversity of living things. Analyze the characteristics and behaviours of vertebrates and invertebrates. (and 2 more outcomes)
• Physical Science: Understanding Electricity (EL6.1–EL6.3): Assess personal, societal, economic, and environmental impacts of electricity use in Saskatchewan and propose… Investigate the characteristics and applications of static electric charges, conductors, insulators, switches, and… Explain and model the properties of simple series and parallel circuits.
• Physical Science: Principles of Flight (FL6.1–FL6.3): Examine connections between human fascination with flight and technologies and careers based on the scientific… Investigate how the forces of thrust, drag, lift, and gravity act on living things and constructed devices that… Design a working prototype of a flying object that meets specified performance criteria.

9 units, including sorting living things, biodiversity, static electricity, circuits.

Big Ideas

• Interactions and Interdependence (IN6.1–IN6.4): Evaluate and represent personal beliefs and values by determining how culture and place influence them. Examine the social and cultural diversity that exists in the world, as exemplified in Canada and a selection of… Develop an understanding that global interdependence impacts individual daily life in Canada and a selection of… (and 1 more outcome)
• Dynamic Relationships (DR6.1–DR6.4): Analyze the impact of the diversity of natural environments on the ways of life in Canada and a selection of… Analyze ways in which the land affects human settlement patterns and social organization, and ways in which human… Appraise the strategies human societies have used to orient themselves within time and place in the natural… (and 1 more outcome)
• Power and Authority (PA6.1–PA6.3): Examine the relationship between an individual's power and authority and the power and authority of others. Analyze the distribution of power and privilege in Canada and a selection of countries bordering the Atlantic… Explore the effects of injustice or abuse of power on its victims, including victims of the Holocaust.

6 units, including map skills, cities & migration, global challenges, trade & globalization.