Minnesota Grade 6 science standards
The Grade 6 science outcomes we teach, in the standards's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Minnesota Academic Standards in Science (2019). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Earth and Space Sciences
6E.1.1.1.3 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
Lessons: Climate Clues (Is this winter colder than when your grandparents were kids?, What can a tree ring tell us?) (partly)
Practice: Climate Clues workbook
6E.2.1.1.2 Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils, rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of past plate motions.
Lessons: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates (Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?, What do moving plates do, and can a building survive?) (partly)
6E.2.1.1.3 Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.
Lessons: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam (How did rain carve the islands of Hạ Long Bay?, Why do builders in Vietnam trust bamboo?, How can a roof survive a typhoon?)
Practice: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook
6E.3.1.1.3 Develop a model, based on observational and experimental evidence, to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity.
Lessons: The Water Cycle, Start to Finish (Where has the water in your glass been?, Can you make a mini water cycle?) (partly)
6E.3.2.1.2 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distribution of Earth’s mineral, energy, or groundwater resources is the result of past geological processes.
Lessons: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (Where does your stuff come from?) (partly)
Practice: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook
6E.3.2.1.3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Lessons: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (How can a town use less and waste less?) (partly)
Practice: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook
6E.4.1.1.1 Construct an argument, supported by evidence, for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
Lessons: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam (How did rain carve the islands of Hạ Long Bay?, Why do builders in Vietnam trust bamboo?, How can a roof survive a typhoon?)
Practice: Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook
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