Grade 6                                                                                          Language Arts

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

What is Culture?

Oral presentation

Personal culture project

Story elements

Character development

Story mountain

Establish procedures for writer’s workshop

Spelling (Sitton Program)

Poetry- Couplets & Free Verse

Stargirl

Various literary selections

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Mesopotamian Myths

 

The Write Source 2000

Prewrite

Free Write

Brainstorming

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Theme

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

October

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Personal narrative

Reflective Writing

Adding supporting evidence

Compare and Contrast

Revising for “dead” words

Poetry – Figurative Language

Through the Hidden Door

Illustrated Book of Myths

Revising

Peer conference

Editing

Revise capitalization rules

Plural rules

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

November

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Expository Essay writing

Portfolios

Finding elements of culture in historical fiction

Poetry – concrete, haiku

His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut

A Place in the Sun

The Egypt Game

Comma Rules

Varying sentences

Transitions

Introductions

Conclusions

Onomatapeia

Alliteration

Assonance

 

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

December

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Mini report-Egyptian Storyboards/newspaper

Research skills

Asking meaningful questions

Poetry - continued

Above titles continued

Egypt’s Golden Empire Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

Growing up in Ancient Egypt

Mummies (AKI)

Outline

Note taking

Driving questions

Bibliography

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

January

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Character sketch

Summarizing

Finding the main idea

Developing study guides

Asking Questions continued

Writing own “just so story”

Poetry- Kipling

Indian folk

Literature

Kipling’s Just So Stories

Kipling- Poetry for Young People

Myth

Legend

Fable

Literal, Inferential, & Evaluative questions

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

February - March

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Ancient China

Report Writing – Science

Journal Writing

Improving literature discussions

Philosophy Essay

Poetry-continued

Dragon wings

In the Year of the Boar

Jackie Robinson

Growing Up in Ancient China

calligraphy

philosophy

summarizing

interpreting

reflecting

Grade: 6 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

April - June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Greece and Rome

Greek or Roman Mythology

* Create your own myth

Compare / Contrast – Athens vs. Sparta

Drama

Debating

Mini Report-Famous Romans

* Historical Fiction

Structure Essay

End of year portfolio

Poetry-continued

Growing Up in Ancient Greece/Rome

Interact: Rome and Greece

D’Alaires book of Greek Myths

The Greek Gods

Bronze Bow

Detectives in Togas

Bronze Bow

Rebuttal

Gods/Goddesses

 

etymology

tragedy

comedy

 

Grade 6                                                                                     Mathematics

Grade: 6 Math

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Data, Graphing and Analysis

 

Scott Foresman- Addison Wesley  “Middle School Math, Course 1”

 

Math Analysis Project

Pictograph, bar graph, line graph and circle graph

Misleading graphs

Scale

Interval

Line plot

Frequency chart

Stem and leaf diagram

Mean, median, mode and range

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

October - November

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Understanding place value,

number systems, different bases and exponents.

Measurement

Decimals. 

Scott Foresman – Addison Wesley text

 

Stock market project

 

Excel spreadsheet

Places to trillions and trillionths

Exponents

Base

Expanded Notation

Scientific Notation

Metric system

Customary system

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

November - December

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Patterns and Number Theory

Fractions

 

Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley text

Addend

Factor

Prime factorization

Least common multiple

Equivalent fractions

Adding and subtracting fractions

Reducing fractions

Multiplying and dividing fractions

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

December - January

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Ratio, Proportion and Percent

Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley text

 

Scale model project

Ratio

Proportion

Percent

Unit rates

Cross products

Geometry

 

Scott Foresman – Addison Wesley text

Height

Base

Perimeter

Area

Volume

Surface area

Solids

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

February - March

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Integers and the coordinate plane

Scott Foresman – Addison Wesley text

Integer

Negative number

x-axis, y-axis

Coordinate plane

Flips, slides, turns, and tessellations

Line symmetry

 

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

April

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Integrating geometry, measurement, and scale

Constructing bridges

Scale

Scale model

Equivalent

Accurate

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

May

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Probability

Scott Foresman – Addison Wesley text

Predictions

Tree diagram

Events

Grade: 6 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

May - June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Structure exhibit

 

Algebra

 

Games and strategies

 

Ancient civilization scale model

 

 

Chess

Cribbage

 

 

 

Variable

Constant

Strategy

 

 

Grade 6                                                                                               Science

Grade: 6 Science

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

Review of Scientific Method

Egg catcher/drop lab

McMillian &McGraw-Hill

Science in Your World

Hypothesis

Procedure

Observations

Conclusion

Variable

Intervening variable

Constant

Health & Drugs Unit 

Drug Analysis lab

Multiple intelligence scale

Kind thought book

Health project

Learning differences

Multiple intelligences

Bullying

Peer pressure

Stress management

Drugs

Tobacco

 

Grade: 6 Science

Instructional Goals

October - December

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Health & Nutrition

Prentice-Hall

Science Explorer:  Human Biology & Health

Food pyramid

Food labels

Iron lab

Fat/snack food lab

Heartbeat/Healthbeat

Nutrient lab

Portfolio

Nutrients

Carbohydrates

Fats (unsaturated & saturated)

Cholesterol

Proteins

Amino acids

Vitamins

Minerals

Water

Contour maps

USGS maps

Contour lines

Elevation

Gradient

Runoff

Grade: 6 Science

Instructional Goals

December - January

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Chemistry

Prentice-Hall

Science Explorer:  Chemical Building Blocks

PowerPoint periodic table

Atom

Element

Electron, proton, neutrons

Physical reaction

Chemical reaction

Periodic table

Mixtures

Compounds

Melting and boiling point

Molecule

Density

Mass/matter/weight

Solid, liquid, gases

Grade: 6 Science

Instructional Goals

January - February

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Cells and tissues

McMillan/McGraw Hill

Science in Your World 

 

Cell model

Cell membrane

Cell wall

Cytoplasm

Nucleus

Mitochondria

Body Systems

Prentice – Hall

Science Explorer:  Human Biology and Health

Report writing

Respiratory

Circulatory

Muscular

Digestive

Grade: 6 Science

Instructional Goals

March - April

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Weather

Prentice-Hall

Science Explorer:  Weather and Climate

Laboratory based instruction

Fronts

Precipitation

Water cycle

Air pressure

Tornadoes

Hurricanes

Atmosphere

Climate

Blizzard

Clouds

Grade: 6 Science

Instructional Goals

May - June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Structures

Bridge construction

Scale model ancient civilization structure construction

Compression

Tension

Beam

Loading

Materials

 

 

Grade 6                                                                                    Social Studies

Grade: 6 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

September

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Geographical review

What is culture?

To define the components of their own culture

*Turning headings into questions

Ancient World

To See a World

Geography map kit

Personal

Culture project

Butte

Basin

Cararuct

Mesa

Plain

Delta

Flood plain

Glacier

Peninsula

Plateau

Tributary

Source

Belief

Religion

Values

Customs

Grade: 6 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

October

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Fertile Crescent

How does geography affect the growth of ancient cultures?

Accomplishments

Impact of the ancient world on the modern world

*Note taking techniques

*Reading a textbook

Ancient World

Readings

Internet: Hammurabi’s Code & Mesopotamian Art

Kids Discover

Time line

Scribe

Polytheism

Empire

Cuneiform

Monotheism

Famine

Exile

Islam

Judaism

Grade: 6 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

November - December

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Egypt and Nubia

Affects of physical geography

Accomplishments

Comparison of civilizations

Religion

Society

Ancient World

Interact-Egypt

Growing up in Ancient Egypt

Kids Discover

Nile river

Pharaoh

Regent

Dynasty

Pyramid

Mummification

Hieroglyph

Papyrus

India:

-  affects of physical geography

-  accomplishments

-   Hinduism

-   Buddhism

Kids Discover

Ancient World

Student supplied supplemental information

Monsoon

Subcontinent

Reincarnation

Hinduism

Buddhism

Ghandi

 

Grade: 6 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

February - March

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Ancient China

  Geography

  Contributions

  Inventions

  First Emperor

  Achievements

Ancient World

To See a World

Interact

Videos

 Growing Up in Ancient China

Kids Discover

Buddhism

Confucianism

Taoism

Legalism

Philosophy

Emperor

Dynasty

Silk Road

dikes

Loess

Currency

Warlord

Grade: 6 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

April - May

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Ancient Greece

  Geography

  Contributions

  Inventions

  Democracy

  Achievements

Ancient World

To See a World

Interact

Videos

Growing Up in Ancient Greece

Kids Discover

 

Democracy

Epic

City-state

Acropolis

Aristocrat

Tyrant

Tribute

Immortal

Agora

Blockade

Hellenistic

Grade: 6 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

May - June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Ancient Rome

  Geography

  Contributions

  Inventions

  Government

  Achievements

Ancient World

To See a World

Interact

Videos

Growing Up in Ancient Rome

Kids Discover

Julius Caesar

Empire

Expansion

Republic

Patrician

Plebian

Consul

Veto

Dictator

Province

Aqueduct

Christianity

Mercenary