Full year
In Grade 6 Science, students and teachers engage in learning activities centered around these beliefs. Through the content units of Forces and Motion, Body Systems, Matter and Energy, and Weather and Climate, students are expected to:
- Be inquisitive and ask questions
- Develop and use models
- Construct explanations of phenomena
- Plan and carry out investigations
- Analyze and interpret data
- Engage in argument from evidence
- Design, test and modify solutions to problems
- Obtain, evaluate and communicate information
As teachers facilitate learning in a more constructivist environment, we expect students to engage with/in: project-based learning, laboratory practices, discussion, research, writing activities, technology, engineering design, reflection on learning and an analysis of human impact on Earth. In doing so, students find answers and develop new questions while uncovering understanding from essential questions such as:
- How can forces move and protect objects?
- How are forces related to energy?
- What is happening inside a healthy person’s body?
- How do we fuel our bodies to do the things we want to do?
- What can we learn by closely observing the parts of living things?
- Why do body parts have special jobs and shapes?
- What makes up matter?
- How does energy affect matter?
- Why are climate and weather so different in different places?
- Why can’t we perfectly predict the weather?