Natural Resources 1/4 - 1/16 This week, 6th grade will begin a unit about natural resources. We will talk about renewable and nonrenewable resources and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Students will complete graphic organizers and notes in their science journals to help them keep the information straight. They will also work with their groups to explore each resource and brainstorm ideas on how each can be used. Students will have vocabulary homework due on Friday, 1/6. The list can be found in the "Class Docs" section. Have a great week, everyone! TEKS: 6.7 Matter and energy. The student knows that some of Earth's energy resources are available on a nearly perpetual basis, while others can be renewed over a relatively short period of time. Some energy resources, once depleted, are essentially nonrenewable. The student is expected to: (A) research and debate the advantages and disadvantages of using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and solar resources; and (B) design a logical plan to manage energy resources in the home, school, or community. This week, we will be finishing up physical and chemical changes. Then, students will be reviewing what they learned last year in 5th grade about density. We will learn more about density and how to calculate it for various objects. We will also review how to measure mass and volume. In class, students will be working with groups to complete different activities that explore these properties and the ones we discussed last week. We will also learn how to find the volume of an irregular shaped object by using water displacement. We will be working in our ISN's to take good notes and organize our info. Students will not receive a new vocab list for this unit. They already have all the vocab words on their "properties of matter" list. Students will have a Mass, Volume, and Density worksheet to complete at the end of the week. This worksheet is designed to help students understand the relationship between these traits. This will be done in class on Friday and sent home to be finished if necessary. Links to Check Out
Vocab: density, mass, volume, matter TEKS: 6.6B This week in science, we will be talking about physical and chemical changes. We will review what we already know about distinguishing between a physical and chemical change and dig a little deeper with new information about chemical changes. Students will work with their groups to identify, observe, and measure evidence of a chemical changes during class labs and activities. They will work together to evaluate their evidence and figure out the identify of an unknown substance based on what they already know. We will complete several notes pages in our journals and get some new vocabulary definitions as well. They will not receive a printed vocab list for this unit. They will take vocab notes in their journals during class. As always, let me know if you have questions! TEKS: 6.5D Vocab:
Sixth graders are learning about the Periodic Table this week. We are starting off talking about matter and atoms, and we are also learning about the subatomic particles and their charges. We will then move on to discuss the different elements of the periodic table and characteristics associated with several of our "most famous" elements and molecules. As always, our vocab for this unit can be found on the "Class Docs" page. Students have been doing an excellent job working hard in class and being GREAT scientists when it comes to in class assignments and homework. Keep up the great work, 6th graders! August 22 - August 31 The first weeks of school, we spent a lot of time getting to know each other and learning classroom expectations and procedures. We worked together as a 6th and 6th grade team to come up with some guidelines and expectations that we could all follow and be accountable for. We talked about what our goals are, and what our students can do as individuals and as a team, as well as what our teachers can do to help us be successful and have a great year. We also spent some time reviewing what we know about lab safety and what our expectations are for science experiments. We brainstormed some lab safety ideas in our science journals, then we worked as a class to design our lab safety contract for the year. September 1 - September 9 Last week, we dove into science by exploring different aspects of scientific investigation and the scientific method. We learned about what make a question a good, "well-defined," testable scientific question, and we discussed how to use the Scientific Method to explore and conduct our experiments. This week, students are using bubbles to explore different ways to manipulate variables and questions for experiments. We are also working on scientific method notes in our interactive science journals and completing vocabulary work at home. (Students have a vocabulary homework assignment due on Friday, 9/9. The vocab list for this week can be found in the "Class Docs" section.) We will also be making foldables for our journals to help us remember the scientific method steps. Also see below for a list of vocab words and TEKS for this topic. Have a great week, everyone! Cheers! :) Miss V Cool Links to Check Out: StudyJams: Identifying Outcomes and Making Predictions StudyJams: Scientific Theories and Evidence Vocabulary:
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