Grade 06 Science - EC: S6.A.1.1.3
Grade 06 Science - EC: S6.A.1.1.3
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
6th Grade
Course, Subject
Science
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- List two methods scientists use to collect data.
- Define predict.
- Conduct an experiment in which you plant and grow seeds. After observing growth for two weeks, predict how the plant’s growth will change over the next two weeks.
- Conduct an experiment in which you test a person’s heart rate at rest, then at increasing levels of aerobic exercise. Lastly, use the collected data to predict a person’s heart rate after running for one minute.
- Conduct an experiment in which you test which liquids cause nails to rust. After researching the chemical makeup of these liquids, predict which liquids will cause the nail to rust.
- Describe the process of evaporation. Record the time 10mL of water takes to evaporate at certain temperature, then make a prediction of the evaporation time at 3 different temperatures and then test it out. Compare your predictions with the actual results.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Experimentation, questionnaires, interviews, direct observation
- Predict means to guess or estimate an outcome based on previous occurrences.
- Acceptable responses must include a description of the plant after the first two weeks and a prediction of how its growth will progress in the following two weeks
*NOTE: Based on plant used, time frames may need to be altered
- Acceptable responses must include the recording of data of the person’s heart rate at rest, indication of different exercises and recording of their heart rates after these activities, then a prediction of the person’s heart rate after running one minute
- Acceptable responses must include reference to which liquids will be tested, description of each liquid’s chemical structure, and a prediction of which liquids will cause rust
- Evaporation is when a liquid turns into a gas.
Acceptable responses must include: record of the time it takes water to evaporate at three different temperatures (temperatures must be indicated), prediction of the evaporation times t three new temperatures, record of the actual evaporation times, and analysis of how results compared to prediction
