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6th Grade Science Common Core Curriculum Planning Pacing Guide 2011-2012 Scientific Inquiry Famous Scientists MythBusters episode (shows hypothesizing and experimentation): 101 Uses for Cola "Process and Lab Skills" Section of McDougal Littell Lab Manual || Aug. 25-Sept.16 || BrainPop videos and lessons on Matter || Sept. 19-Oct. 14 || This website has some good worksheets as well as some short informational articles on matter! It also has worksheets for many of the other topics we will be discussing this year! BrainPop video and lesson on Heat ||^  || SAS Virtual Lab about density: Density ||^  || Spigot Science Magazine about energy and teacher resource guide (requires membership but it is free to join): [] BrainPop videos and lessons on Energy || Oct. 17-Nov.4 || On the following link, click on "Virtual Labs" and choose "Too Hot to Handle" for a student exploration activity: [] ||^  || BrainPop video and lesson on Waves http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Bill_Nye_Videos/ [|Interactives and Visuals of Waves (Tsunami)] || Nov.7-Dec. 15 || BrainPop videos and lessons on light and em spectrum: Light Electromagnetic Spectrum ||^  || BrainPop video and lessons on Refraction and Diffraction Bending of Light Simulation on PhET ||^  || Spigot Science Magazine and teacher resource for Sound Short Video of Blue Man Groupon Discovery Ed BrainPop video and lesson on Sound [|Interactive for Changing Pitch and Loudness of Sounds] ||^  || BrainPop video on Plant Growth || Jan. 2-Jan.18 || Carbon Cycle ||^  || Brainpop video and lessons on Food Chains || Jan. 24-Feb. 10 || Tropism Experiment Website that has examples and videos of tropisms: Plant Responses ||^  || Spigot Science magazine and teacher resource for Ecosystems BrainPop video and lessons for Ecosystems Discovery Education Interactive Simulation "Pond-er This" Discovery Education Interactive Simulation "Organism Needs" ||^  || BrainPop video and lessons about Earth's Structure SAS online exploration of Earth's layers: Earth's Layers || Feb. 13-Mar. 29 || Spigot Science magazine and teacher resources for the Changing Earth BrainPop videos on Earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics: Earthquakes Volcanoes Plate Tectonics USGS website about Earthquake Hazardsthat maps recent earthquake activity and has lots of info. VolcanoesTeachers Packet with lessons and acitivities. ||^  || Spigot Science magazine and resources for Rocks and Minerals BrainPop video and lessons on Soil Collection of Rock Cycleanimations. ||^  || Remote sensing images of Urban Growth in American Citiesbetween the 1970s and 1990s. ||^  || [] This website has calendars with pictures of moon phases which I like to get the students to cut apart and match up to the phase names. It also gives dates for eclipses and meteor showers. BrainPop video and lesson on Moon Phases || April 9-May 11 || A project that I put together for students to research a planet: BrainPop videos and lessons on Earth and aliens: Earth Aliens Hunt for Alien Life episode from NOVA Interactive Videos on Discovery Education about the planets: Inner and Outer Planets Parts of Our Solar Structure of the Universe ||^  || Spigot Science Magazine and resources about the Universe Spigot Science Magazine and resources about Telescopes BrainPop videos and lessons about Space Exploration Discovery Education Exploration "Understanding the Universe" ||^  ||
 * ** Essential Standard ** || ** Clarifying Objectives ** || ** Resources ** || ** Dates ** ||
 * ** Procedures/ Culture/Critical Thinking ** ||  || BrainPop videos and lessons on Scientific Inquiry and Famous Scientists:
 * ** Physical Science ** ||
 * ** 6.P.2 **** Understand the structure, **** classifications and physical properties of matter. ** || ** 6.P.2.1 ** - Recognize that all matter is made up of atoms and atoms of the same element are all alike, but are different from the atoms of other elements. || Chem4Kidswebsite has tutorials and interactive quizzes
 * ^  || ** 6.P.2.2 ** - Explain the effect of heat on the  motion of atoms and molecules through adescription of what happens to particlesduring a change in phase. || www.superteacherworksheets.com
 * ^  || ** 6.P.2.3 ** - Compare the physical properties  of pure substances that are independent ofthe amount of matter present includingdensity, melting point, boiling point andsolubility to properties that are dependent on the amount of matter present to include volume, mass and weight. || BrainPop video and lesson on property changes
 * ** 6.P.3 **** Understand characteristics of **** energy transfer and interactions of matter and energy. ** || **6.P.3.1** - Illustrate the transfer of heat energy from warmer objects to cooler ones using examples of conduction, radiation and convection and the effects that may result. || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit B, Chapter 2
 * ^  || ** 6.P.3.3 ** - Explain the suitability of materials for use in technological design based on a response to heat (to include conduction,  expansion, and contraction) and electrical energy (conductors and insulators). || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit B, Sections 2.1 and 2.3
 * ** 6.P.1 **** Understand the properties of **** waves and the wavelike property of energy in earthquakes, light **** and sound waves. ** || ** 6.P.1.1 ** - Compare the properties of waves to the wavelike property of energy inearthquakes, light and sound. || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit C, Chapter 1
 * ^  || ** 6.P.1.2 ** -Explain the relationship among  visible light, the electromagnetic spectrum,and sight. || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit C, Chapter 3
 * ^  || ** 6.P.3.2 ** - Explain the effects of electromagnetic waves on various materials to include absorption, scattering, and change in temperature.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit C, Chapter 4
 * ^  || ** 6.P.1.3 ** - Explain the relationship among the rate of vibration, the medium through which vibrations travel, sound and hearing.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit C, Chapter 2
 * ** Life Science ** ||
 * ** 6.L.1 **** Understand the structures, processes and behaviors of plants that enable them to survive and reproduce. ** || ** 6.L.1.1 ** - Summarize the basic structures and functions of flowering plants required for survival, reproduction and defense. || Spigot Science Magazine and teacher resource for Plants
 * ^  || ** 6.L.1.2 ** - Explain the significance of the processes of photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration to the survival of green plants and other organisms.  || SAS Virtual Lab about the carbon cycle:
 * ** 6.L.2 **** Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the **** responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their **** environment. ** || ** 6.L.2.1 ** - Summarize how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within food chains and food webs (terrestrial and aquatic) from producers to consumers to decomposers. || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit D, Chapter 1
 * ^  || ** 6.L.2.2 ** - Explain how plants respond to external stimuli (including dormancy and forms of tropism) to enhance survival in an  environment. || Lab Experiment about tropisms:
 * ^  || ** 6.L.2.3 ** - Summarize how the abiotic factors (such as temperature, water, sunlight, and soil quality) of biomes (freshwater, marine, forest, grasslands, desert, Tundra) affect the ability of organisms to grow, survive and/or create their own food through photosynthesis.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit D, Chapter 1
 * ** Earth Science ** ||
 * ** 6.E.2 **** Understand the structure of the earth and how interactions of **** constructive and destructive forces have resulted in changes **** in the surface of the Earth over time and the effects of the lithosphere on humans. ** || ** 6.E.2.1 ** - Summarize the structure of the earth, including the layers, the mantle and core based on the relative position, composition and density. || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit B, Chapter 3
 * ^  || ** 6.E.2.2 ** - Explain how crustal plates and ocean basins are formed, move and interact using earthquakes, heat flow and volcanoes to reflect forces within the earth.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit B, Chapter 3, 4, 5
 * ^  || ** 6.E.2.3 ** - Explain how the formation of soil is related to the parent rock type and the environment in which it develops.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit A, Chapter 4
 * ^  || ** 6.E.2.4 ** - Conclude that the good health of humans requires: monitoring the lithosphere, maintaining soil quality and stewardship.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit A, Section 4.3
 * ** 6.E.1 **** Understand the earth/moon/sun system, and the properties, **** structures and predictable motions of celestial bodies in the **** Universe. ** || ** 6.E.1.1 ** - Explain how the relative motion and relative position of the sun, Earth and moon affect the seasons, tides, phases of the moon, and eclipses. || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit E, Chapter 2
 * ^  || ** 6.E.1.2 ** - Explain why Earth sustains life while other planets do not based on their properties (including types of surface, atmosphere and gravitational force) and location to the Sun.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit E, Chapter 3
 * ^  || ** 6.E.1.3 ** - Summarize space exploration and the understandings gained from them.  || McDougal Littell Textbook Unit E, Chapter 1
 * ** Review ** ||  ||   || May 14-June 7 ||


 * Please add any resources you come across that come in useful for each objective.