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Grade 6 Quick Quiz: Earth and Space Science Review
A 5-question multiple-choice quiz on solar system scale, solstices, the Milky Way, basic probability multiplication, and unit conversion (Imperial to SI).
Environment and Lifestyle Choices on Biological Inheritance
A 30 minute Grade 7 lesson on how environment and lifestyle affect gene expression, health, and survival, and how some environmental factors can affect inheritance through mutations and epigenetic mechanisms.
Unit Test - Ecosystems, Interactions, and Energy
Summative unit assessment covering ecosystems and the hydrosphere: water distribution, the water cycle and residence time, ocean currents and climate, groundwater and watersheds, human impacts on water quality, photosynthesis, food webs and energy flow, trophic levels and the 10% rule, and biomes.
Your Cosmic Address
Students explore Earth's place in the universe, from our local solar system to the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, while understanding why Earth is uniquely suited to support life.
Hydrosphere - Intro
A 10-minute in-class introduction to the hydrosphere. Students define the hydrosphere, identify major water reservoirs, and explain a basic interaction between water, humans, and other Earth systems.
Expressions, Equations, and Mathematical Reasoning
Students learn the vocabulary of algebra (variables, expressions, equations, terms, coefficients, and constants) and apply order of operations (PEMDAS), properties of operations, and expression evaluation to build the foundation for all 6th grade mathematics.
Earth's Systems Unit Introduction: Earth's Layers and the Rock Cycle
A 45 minute unit introduction focused on Earth's internal layers and the rock cycle, including two check-your-understanding sections aligned to NC Grade 6 standards ESS.6.2.1 and ESS.6.2.3.
Number Relationships and Place Value
Students deepen their understanding of factors and multiples, distinguish prime from composite numbers, find GCF and LCM, and extend place value knowledge through thousandths, building the vocabulary and number sense needed for fraction and decimal operations.
Forces and Interactions: Putting It All Together
Students synthesize all unit concepts by connecting motion description to graphing to forces to electromagnetism, apply integrated knowledge to real-world scenarios (roller coaster, electric car, maglev train), and review key vocabulary from all four previous lessons.
States of Matter and Phase Changes
Students learn how particle arrangement and motion differ across solids, liquids, and gases, explore all six phase changes and the role of thermal energy, and interpret heating curves to understand what happens at each plateau.
Matter and Its Interactions: Putting It All Together
Students synthesize all unit concepts by connecting atomic structure to properties, tracing how energy transfer causes phase changes at the particle level, applying multiple concepts to real-world scenarios, and reviewing key vocabulary from all four previous lessons.
Reading the Rock Record
Students learn to read Earth's history from rock layers using the Law of Superposition, index fossils for correlation, relative and absolute dating methods including radiometric dating and half-lives, the geologic time scale, and additional geological evidence from ice cores, faults, and igneous intrusions.
Forces and Newton's Laws
Students learn what forces are and how they are measured, distinguish between balanced and unbalanced forces, explore Newton's three laws of motion with real-world examples, and apply F = ma to predict motion.
Graphing Motion
Students learn to create and interpret position-time graphs, calculate speed from slope, identify periods of rest, constant speed, and acceleration from graph shape, and compare the motion of multiple objects on the same graph.
Unit Test - Weather and Climate
A 40-question summative unit test covering atmospheric composition and structure, the water cycle, humidity and cloud formation, air masses and fronts, pressure systems, weather map interpretation, convection and global winds, the jet stream, and climate zones. Aligned to NC Standard Course of Study ESS.7.1.
Biological Evolution: The Big Picture
Students synthesize all unit concepts by tracing the complete story of evolution from geological evidence through natural selection to adaptation and speciation, learn to build scientific arguments using the CER framework with the whale evolution case study, analyze integrated case studies (marine iguana, horse evolution), review all unit vocabulary, and explore why evolution matters today.
Building Blocks of Matter
Students learn that all matter is made of atoms, explore the three subatomic particles and their arrangement within an atom, and discover how atomic number defines each element.