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The Road to Rebellion: Weeks 23-31
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The Birth of a New Nation: Weeks 33-35
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Math Weebly for BCS
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How to Login To Important Websites
The 3 MUST OPEN DAILY Websites
Log Into: IXL + Khan + Xtramath + Quizlet
How to Fix Khan Video Not Loading
Edpuzzle: Log on and Fix Home Issues
Google Classroom: How-To and Uploading
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Seleski, Laurie
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Smith, Trudy
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Teague, Tara
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Primary STEM Learning Magazine
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3-d Printing at North Windy Ridge
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Cells
Genetics and Heredity
Systems of the Human Body
States of Matter
The Water Cycle
Physical and Chemical Changes
Measuring Mass
Heat Transfer
Weather vs. Climate
Weather Tools
Clouds
Air Pressure and Wind
Air Masses and Fronts
Ocean Currents and Global Winds
Interaction of Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Forces
Calculating Speed
Distance and Time Graphs
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Sixth Grade Curriculum Overview
English/Language Arts
Sixth grade students use oral language, written language, and media and technology for expressive, informational, argumentative, critical, and literary purposes. Students also explore the structure of language and study grammatical rules in order to speak and write effectively. While emphasis in sixth grade is placed on personal expression, students also:
Interpret and synthesize information.
Develop an understanding of the foundations of argument.
Critically analyze print and non-print communication.
Use effective sentence construction and edit for improvements in sentence formation, usage, mechanics, and spelling.
Interpret and evaluate a wide range of literature.
Writing
In grade 6, students learn the foundations of argument. Students learn through exploration of a variety of materials how to recognize effective arguments by summarizing the author?s purpose and stance; by distinguishing between fact and opinion; and, through developing an awareness of audience. Students in Grade 6 should be able to respond to public documents such as editorial and school or community policies.
Math
Students in the middle grades represent real numbers using manipulatives, pictures, number lines, and symbols in a variety of contexts. Relationships among rational numbers are explored and equivalence among fractions, decimals, and percents is recognized and explained. Students extend their understanding of place value to decimal and scientific notation and use the properties of real numbers, including zero, one, and inverses. Numerical comparisons are expressed as ratios and rates and problems are solved using ratio, proportion, and percent.
Students develop fluency in computation with rational numbers as well as with relationships among numbers, including primes, composites, factors, and multiples. They explain exponents and square and cube roots of numbers, develop skills with estimation and mental computation, and use calculators appropriately.
Major Concepts and Skills in grade 6 include:
Negative rational numbers
Percent
Transformations in the coordinate plane
Probability
Equations and inequalities
Multiplication and division of non-negative rational numbers
Solving relevant and authentic problems using appropriate technology and applying these concepts as well as those developed in earlier years.
Social Studies
The focus for sixth grade is on the continued development of knowledge and skills acquired in the fourth and fifth grade studies of North Carolina and the United States by considering, comparing, and connecting those studies to the study of South America and Europe, including Russia. As students examine social, economic, and political institutions they analyze similarities and differences among societies. While concepts are drawn from history and the social sciences, the primary discipline is geography, especially cultural geography. This focus provides students with a framework for studying local, regional, national, and global issues that concern them, for understanding the interdependence of the world in which they live, and for making informed judgments as active citizens.
Science
Learners will study natural and technological systems. All goals should focus on the unifying concepts of science defined by the National Science Education Standards: Systems, Order, and Organization; Evidence, Models, and Explanation; Constancy, Change, and Measurement; Evolution and Equilibrium; and Form and Function. The skills of inquiry and technological design are targeted for mastery.
The concepts for which in-depth studies should be designed at sixth grade level include:
Scientific Inquiry
Technological Design
Lithosphere
Cycling of Matter
Solar System
Energy Transfer/Transformation
Population Dynamics
Health/Physical Education
Sixth grade students are instructed on the health-related benefits of health and physical activity and how these benefits can be acquired and maintained.
Major focuses in Grade 6 include:
Recognizes signs of asthma
Using thinking to predict consequences and to cope appropriately with situations
Familiar with water safety
Dealing appropriately with feelings
Benefits of resistance to harmful substances
Health-related fitness tests with goals for improvement
Safe opportunities for participation outside of school hours
Acknowledging individual differences
Working independently
Routines in sequential movement patterns and dance
Strategies for offense and defense
Computer/Technology Skills
The strength of technology is that it provides an excellent platform where students can collect information in multiple formats and then organize, link, and discover relationships between facts and events. An array of tools for acquiring information and for thinking and expression allows more students more ways to enter the learning enterprise successfully and to live productive lives in the global, digital, and information-based future they all face.
The focus for 6th grade Computer/Technology Skills includes:
Responsible and safe use of online resources
Using Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines
Refining application skills
Using formulas in a spreadsheet
Using search strategy with two or more criteria in a database
Increasing productivity and accuracy in keyboarding
Using word processing, spreadsheet, database, and multimedia for assignments in all subject areas
Locating and retrieving information using telecommunications
Evaluating resources and information for accuracy and usefulness
Selecting and using a variety of technology tools