Grade 6 Science Wyoming standards Standards

Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society

Engineering, Technology, & Applications of Science

Earth and Human Activity

Earth's Systems

Earth's Place in the Universe

Biological Evolution: Unity & Diversity

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures & Processes

Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Energy

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Matter and Its Interactions

Investigate changes in shadows and/or daily changes in day and night.

Model the Earth-sun-moon positions for lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

Model that the solar system is a collection of many varied objects, held together by gravity, that move in predictable ways.

Identify categories of solar system objects (e.g., planets, meteors, asteroids, comets, and moon).

Organize, or model, evidence from rocks and rock strata within the geologic time scale to demonstrate Earth's history.

Model the cycling processes involved in the creation of various rock forms.

Identify geoscience processes that can change Earth's surface over short time scales or long time scales.

Compare locations of fossils, rocks, continental shapes, and structures as evidence of past plate motions.

Identify the processes involved in the cycling of Earth's water.

Utilize data to compare weather conditions in different locations on the same day.

Identify how latitude and altitude influence climate.

Identify how the levels of Earth's resources can change over time.

Recognize that some natural hazards (e.g., volcanic eruptions, severe weather) can be predicted while others are not currently predictable.

Model ways that humans can minimize their impact on the environment.

Incorporated into SES-MS-ESS3-1.

Recognize natural processes, and human activities, that may impact global temperatures.

Describe a problem that needs to be solved.

Evaluate solutions to given problems.

Analyze results from the testing of possible solutions.

Create an object or tool from materials provided.

Ask questions about common household, or classroom, appliances.

Identify consequences of human choices.

Identify the difference between living and nonliving things.

Explore, and identify, the structure and function of major parts of a cell.

Model that a body system is made up of interacting organs.

Identify the characteristics of plants and behaviors of animals that support successful reproduction.

Identify environmental conditions needed for successful growth of organisms.

Model what a plant uses, what it creates, and what the plant releases during photosynthesis.

Recognize that food is used to produce energy for organisms to live.

Identify situations which require a reactive behavior for survival.

Recognize the effects of resource availability on individuals and on populations.

Identify ways that organisms interact with each other within an ecosystem.

Explain that energy moves among living and non-living parts of an ecosystem.

Recognize how changes to an ecosystem affect populations.

Identify an action that maintains or improves ecosystems and biodiversity.

Explain that organisms have differences in their traits that can affect their survival.

Students will investigate, and identify, features of living organisms that come from their parents.

Compare fossils with plants and animals that exist today.

Identify anatomical similarities between modern organisms and fossil organisms.

Incorporated in SES-MS-LS3-1.

Identify desirable traits that can be passed on to offspring.

Demonstrate understanding that natural selection changes distribution of traits in a population over time.

Model how simple parts can be put together to make more complex structures.

Make observations of substances interacting to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.

Distinguish between natural and synthetic materials.

Describe the relationship between changes in temperature, kinetic energy, and changes in states of matter for water.

Show that the amount of a substance used in a reaction does not change even if the new substance looks different.

Participate in a design project to keep thermal energy in a substance or container.

Investigate, and describe, the direction of motion of two colliding objects of equal and of unequal masses.

Incorporated into SES-MS- PS2-1 by including equal and unequal mass.

Ask questions about the strength of magnetic forces.

Use surroundings and information provided to predict the effects of gravity.

Investigate an object that has a static charge.

Identify changes in kinetic energy on a labeled diagram.

Identify differing amounts of potential energy on a labeled diagram.

Incorporated into SES-MS-PS1-6.

Incorporated into SES-MS-PS1-4.

Demonstrate how kinetic energy is transferred between objects.

Identify larger amplitude waves as having more energy.

Describe how light waves behave when interacting with various materials.

Select an electronic means and a non-digital means of sending information.