Mr. Daryl Snipes
Email: snipesd@anderson1.k12.sc.us
Sixth Grade Science: Course Description
Students explore the structure and function of plants and animals; weather
and the layers of the atmosphere; and energy, work and simple machines.
Unit of Study: Inquiry Skills and Safety (4 weeks)
6-1.1 Use appropriate tools and instruments
6-1.2 Differentiate between observation and inference
6-1.3 Using a dichotomous key
6-1.4 Plan and produce a solution to a problem or a product
6-1.5 Use appropriate safety procedures
Unit of Study: Plants (7 weeks)
6-2.1 The characteristics that all organisms share
6-2.2 Hierarchical structure of the classification of organisms
6-2.3 The characteristic structures of groups of plants
6-2.4 Defense, survival, and reproduction in plants
6-2.5 The life cycle of flowering plants
6-2.6 Sexual and asexual reproduction of flowering plants
6-2.7 Photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration
6-2.8 Plant responses to external stimuli (dormancy and tropism)
6-2.9 Disease-causing fungi
Unit of Study: Animals (7 weeks)
6-3.1 Invertebrate animals and vertebrate animals
6-3.2 Defense, movement, and obtaining resources
6-3.3 Warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals
6-3.4 Shedding, blinking, shivering, sweating, panting, food gathering
6-3.5 Hibernation, migration, defense, and courtship
6-3.6 Hunger, thirst, and sleep
6-3.7 Learned and inherited behaviors in animals
Unit of Study: Weather and the Atmosphere (7 weeks)
6-4.1 Composition and structure of Earth's atmosphere
6-4.2 The water cycle
6-4.3 Shapes and types of clouds
6-4.4 Air masses, pressure systems, and frontal boundaries
6-4.5 Instruments and tools to collect weather data
6-4.6 Predicting weather
6-4.7 The effect of solar energy on the Earth
6-4.8 Convection
6-4.9 Global winds and the jet stream
Unit of Study: Energy and Machines (7 weeks)
6-6.1 Heat, solar, chemical, mechanical, and electrical energy
6-6.2 Energy transformation
6-6.3 Magnetism and electricity
6-6.4 Energy transformations in electrical circuits
6-6.5 Convection, radiation, and conduction
6-6.6 Energy is the ability to do work
6-6.7 Simple machines
6-6.8 Simple machines in common tools and in complex machines
PASS Review, Testing, and Endangered Animals Project (4 weeks)
Classroom Grading procedures:
Grading scale:
93-100
A
85-92
B
70-76
C
70-77
D
Below 70
Mastery not yet met
Assessments:
Tests/Projects
Quizzes, reviews,
class work
Homework
60%
35%
5%
Fantastic Fifteen Science Review is a weekly review which requires students to
apply information from material previously taught. The Fast Facts will provide the
needed information to find answers on the Fantastic Fifteen. You will not find the
information in you textbook.
Fast Facts are colorful sheets of paper kept in the SWOOSH notebook for the entire
year. These contain all the information for the units being taught. Students are
supplied with page protectors and are required to keep the Fast Facts in the page
protectors. If they are lost, you must purchase a new copy.
Parent Resources
Textbooks: We seldom use the books and will only issue a science book to those
students or parents who ask for a copy to be kept at home. It is available online
using the information below.
Glencoe South Carolina Science Grade 6
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078786770/
Online link to Glencoe South Carolina Science Grade 6
User Name: SCSG607 Password: 4ecRuThu
South Carolina Sixth Grade Science Standards (see page 42)
http://ed.sc.gov/agency/offices/cso/standards/science/documents/ScienceStandardsNov
182005_001.doc
South Carolina Sixth Grade Science Support Document
https://www.ed.sc.gov/apps/cso/standards/supdocs_k8.cfm?#area_6