2015-2016 Washington County School District Pacing Guide 6th Grade Science
Dates
Enduring
Skills
Unit Topic
06-PS2-1. Apply Newton’s Third Law to
design a solution to a problem involving the
motion of two colliding objects.
Planning and
Carrying out
investigations
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Constructing
Explanations
and Designing
Solutions
Motion and
Forces
Analyzing and
Interpreting
data
06-PS2-2. Plan an investigation to provide
evidence that the change in an object’s
motion depends on the sum of the
forces on the object and the mass of the
object.
06-ESS1-1. Develop and use a model of the
Earth-sun-moon system to describe the
cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of
the sun and moon, and seasons.
Developing and
Using Models
09/28-11/13
NGSS Standards
Solar System
06-ESS1-2. Develop and use a model to
describe the role of gravity in the motions
within galaxies and the solar system.
Essential Vocabulary
Interaction, transfer, mass. relative position,
constant speed, control variable,
deceleration, dependent variable, direction
of force, direction of motion, impact
independent variable, inertia, Isaac Newton,
Newton's 1st Law of Motion, Newton's 2nd
law of motion, Newton's 3rd law of motion,
Stationary, frame of reference, momentum,
net force, acceleration
Exert, gravitational force, transfer, mass,
orbital, attractive, Newton's law of
gravitation, Earth's orbit, Milky Way, orbit,
orbital period, tilted, lunar phase, asteroid,
Earth-sun-moon system, eclipse, planet
composition, planet orbits, planet size,
planet surface features, elliptical orbit, orbital
radius, celestial body, comet, light year,
astronomical unit (AU)
06-ESS1-3. Analyze and interpret data to
determine scale properties of objects in the
solar system.
06-ESS2-5. Collect data to provide evidence
for how the motions and complex
interactions of air masses results in changes
in weather conditions.
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Planning and
carrying Out
investigations
Developing and
Using Models
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Climate and
Weather
06-ESS2-6. Develop and use a model to
describe how unequal heating and rotation
of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric
and oceanic circulation that determine
regional climates.
06-ESS2-4. Develop a model to describe the
cycling of water through Earth’s systems
driven by energy from the sun and the force
of gravity.
Condensation, latitude, longitudinal,
pressure, transfer, weather map, average,
biosphere, high pressure, low pressure, air
mass, air mass circulation, altitude,
atmospheric circulation, climatic pattern,
convection cycle, Coriolis effect, density,
convection, conduction, radiation, gradual,
humidity, ocean circulation, unequal heating
of air, unequal heating of land masses,
unequal heating of oceans
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2015-2016 Washington County School District Pacing Guide 6th Grade Science
Dates
01/04-02/12
Enduring
Skills
Constructing
Explanations
and Designing
Solutions
Unit Topic
Earth’s Surface
and the Rock
Cycle
Obtaining,
Evaluating, and
Communicating
Information
Essential Vocabulary
06-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based
on evidence for how geoscience processes
have changed Earth’s surface at varying time
and spatial scales.
Sediment, deposition, ground water, mineral,
constructive forces, destructive forces,
weathering, erosion, earthquakes,
volcanoes, tectonic plates, fossils, ridges,
fracture zones, and trenches, igneous rock,
sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock
06-ESS2-3. Analyze and interpret data on
the distribution of fossils and rocks,
continental shapes, and seafloor structures
to provide evidence of the past plate motions
06-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the
cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of
energy that drives this process.
06-PS1-1. Develop models to describe the
atomic composition of simple molecules and
extended structures.
Developing and
Using Models
02/16-4/1
Standards
Matter
06-PS1-3. Gather and make sense of
information to describe that synthetic
materials come from natural resources and
impact society.
Models, atoms, particles, particle motion,
periodic table, physical properties, boiling
point, melting point, solubility, malleability,
ductility, elements, coefficient, subscript,
simple molecule, extended structure,
compounds, nucleus, condensation,
evaporation, deposition, sublimation, positive
charged atom, negative charged atom,
bonds
06-PS1-4. Develop a model that predicts
anddescribes changes in particle motion,
temperature, and state of a pure substance
when thermal energy is added or removed.
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2015-2016 Washington County School District Pacing Guide 6th Grade Science
06-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to
provide evidence for the effects of resource
availability on organisms and populations of
organisms in an ecosystem.
Analyzing and
Interrpreting
Data
04/11-5/13
Developing and
Using Models
Constructing
Explanations
and Designing
Solutions
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Ecosystems
06-LS2-3. Develop a model to describe the
cycling of matter and flow of energy among
living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
Dependent, diversity, diversity of life,
extreme, limited, predation, resilient,
abundance, biological, capacity,
interdependent, resources population,
conservation, convert, store, transfer, cycle,
Decomposer, energy flow, flow chart,
producer, terrestrial, carbon dioxide, nutrient,
Photosynthesis, protein
06-LS2-2. Construct an explanation that
predicts patterns of interactions among
organisms across multiple ecosystems.
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