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Course Objectives
We will begin our year with lab safety and learning how to conduct science labs and investigations using a laboratory notebook. Our sixth grade curriculum includes five unit topics. What’s the Matter is our first content unit which explores the structure, classifications and physical properties of matter. Topics for the remainder of the year include: Catch a Wave (understanding the wavelike property of energy in earthquakes, light and sound waves), The Land Beneath our Feet (the structure of the earth and how interactions of constructive and destructive forces have resulted in changes in the surface of the Earth), Space Invaders (study of the earth/moon/sun system and celestial bodies in the Universe) and Growing and Flowing (understanding the flow of energy through ecosystems and the structures, processes and behaviors of plants). Lab activities and scientific investigations will be completed throughout each unit of study.
We will begin our year with lab safety and learning how to conduct science labs and investigations using a laboratory notebook. Our sixth grade curriculum includes five unit topics. What’s the Matter is our first content unit which explores the structure, classifications and physical properties of matter. Topics for the remainder of the year include: Catch a Wave (understanding the wavelike property of energy in earthquakes, light and sound waves), The Land Beneath our Feet (the structure of the earth and how interactions of constructive and destructive forces have resulted in changes in the surface of the Earth), Space Invaders (study of the earth/moon/sun system and celestial bodies in the Universe) and Growing and Flowing (understanding the flow of energy through ecosystems and the structures, processes and behaviors of plants). Lab activities and scientific investigations will be completed throughout each unit of study.