6th grade curriculum for 2011-2012
· Safety in the laboratory – 100% on Safety Test required
· Laboratory equipment and use; laboratory procedures – using appropriate equipment and following lab procedures
· Scientific Method, Process Skills, Measurement, and Graphing – asking well developed questions, making observations and inferences, comparative and descriptive investigations, formulating testable hypotheses, analyzing data, communicate valid conclusions, and predict trends
· Elements, Compounds, and Properties of Matter –physical and chemical changes; metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
· Earth’s Structure and Processes – plate tectonics and Rock Cycle
· Solar System and Space Exploration – Sun, planets, Galilean moons, gravity, meteors, asteroids, and comets; history and future of space exploration
· Motion and Machines – inclined planes and pulleys
· Energy and its’ uses – potential and kinetic energy; conduction, convection, and radiation; renewable and nonrenewable resources
· Organisms and Environments – prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms, ecosystems, and Kingdoms
· Laboratory equipment and use; laboratory procedures – using appropriate equipment and following lab procedures
· Scientific Method, Process Skills, Measurement, and Graphing – asking well developed questions, making observations and inferences, comparative and descriptive investigations, formulating testable hypotheses, analyzing data, communicate valid conclusions, and predict trends
· Elements, Compounds, and Properties of Matter –physical and chemical changes; metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
· Earth’s Structure and Processes – plate tectonics and Rock Cycle
· Solar System and Space Exploration – Sun, planets, Galilean moons, gravity, meteors, asteroids, and comets; history and future of space exploration
· Motion and Machines – inclined planes and pulleys
· Energy and its’ uses – potential and kinetic energy; conduction, convection, and radiation; renewable and nonrenewable resources
· Organisms and Environments – prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms, ecosystems, and Kingdoms