4th Quarter 6th Grade Science Essentials
Essential Vocabulary: petals, stem, sepals, stamen, anther, ovules, pistils, sexual
reproduction, fertilization, pollination, sterile, pollen, ovary, egg, sperm,
photosynthesis, respiration, chlorophyll, glucose, epidermis, stomata,
transpiration, carbon dioxide, oxygen, guard cells decomposer, producer,
consumer, scavenger, water cycle, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle, matter, energy,
food web, food chain, energy pyramid, bacteria, terrestrial, aquatic, dormancy,
germination, tropism, dormancy, limiting factor, biotic, abiotic, biome, niche,
predator, prey, competition, carrying capacity, coexistence, cooperation,
symbiosis, mutualism, species, ecology, ecosystem, succession, pioneer
species, habitat, community, organism, population, organism, environment
6.L.1.1 I can summarize the basic structures and functions of flowering
plants required for survival.
 I will identify the structures of a flowering plant.
 I will identify the functions of the parts of a plant.
 I will distinguish which parts of the flower are for fertilization, seed,
production and pollination.
 I will understand the functions of a plant structure (leaves, stem, roots,
bloom) are essential for life.
I can summarize the basic structures and functions of flowering plants
required for reproduction.
 I will explain the reproductive process in flowering plants.
I can summarize the basic structures and functions of flowering plants
required for defense.
 I will identify plant structures used for defense
6.L.1.2 I can explain the processes of photosynthesis in plants.
 I will determine the materials needed for photosynthesis.
 I will explain how chlorophyll is used in the process of photosynthesis.
 I will give examples of the products made by photosynthesis.
I can explain the importance of cellular respiration to the survival of green
plants and all other organisms.
 I will determine the materials needed for cellular respiration.
 I will recognize that all living things perform cellular respiration.
I can explain the significance of the processes of transpiration to the
survival of green plants and other organisms.
 I will recognize that the process of the loss of water is transpiration.
 I will explain the parts of the leaf involved in transpiration (stomata and
guard cells)
6.L. 2.1 I can summarize how energy derived from the sun is used by plants
to produce sugars (photosynthesis).
 I will be able to explain how the sun’s energy is used by plants and produce
sugar and then is transferred through an ecosystem.
I can explain that energy is transferred within a food chain or
food web (terrestrial and aquatic) from producers to consumers to
decomposers.
 I will define producer, consumer, and decomposer.
 I will predict how energy from green plants flows through ecosystems.
 I will design a food chain.
 I will design a food web. (terrestrial and aquatic )
 I will make a model of an energy pyramid.
 I will classify living things as either producers or consumers.
6.L.2.2 I can explain how plants respond to external stimuli (including
dormancy and forms of tropism) to enhance survival in an environment.
 I will give specific examples of positive and negative tropism. (gravity, light
and water)
 I will observe changes in the environment (gravity, sunlight, temperature,
and day length), which will effect plant growth.
 I will understand what tropism is. d.) I will understand what dormancy is.
 I can explain how dormancy enhances survival in an environment.
6.L.2.3 I can summarize how the abiotic factors (such as temperature,
water, sunlight, and soil quality) of biomes (freshwater, marine, forest,
grasslands, desert, and tundra) affect the ability of organisms to grow,
survive and/or create their own food through photosynthesis.
 I will identify factors in a wide variety of environments. (fresh water, marine,
forest, grassland, desert, and tundra )
 I will model the abiotic and biotic factors in a biome.
 I will predict how limiting factors affect ecosystem.
 I will define abiotic and biotic factors. (temperature water, sunlight and soil
quality
 I will explain how and what abiotic and biotic factors are
 I will explain what a limiting factor is.