Nebraska 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.
Nebraska College and Career Ready Standards for Science (2024). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Physical Sciences
SC.6.4.1.a Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.
Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move (Can you keep an ice cube frozen the longest?) · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe (How does a felt yurt keep a family warm at −30 °C?)
Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook · Hot Stuff: Heat, Temperature and Cooling workbook
SC.6.4.1.c Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, type of matter, mass, and change in average kinetic energy of particles as measured by the temperature of the sample.
Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move (Why does food colouring spread faster in hot water?, Can you keep an ice cube frozen the longest?) (partly)
Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook · Hot Stuff: Heat, Temperature and Cooling workbook
Engineering, Technology and Applications of Science
SC.6.4.1.b Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principle and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Can you design a crumple zone?)
Life Sciences
SC.6.6.2.a Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many varied cells.
Lessons: Cells: The Smallest Living Things (How big is a cell?)
SC.6.6.2.b Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of a cell contribute to the function.
Lessons: Cells: The Smallest Living Things (How do things get in and out of a cell?, Can you pull DNA out of a strawberry?) (partly)
SC.6.9.3.c Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
Lessons: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares (Why do you look like your family, but not exactly?, How can two purple-flowered pea plants have a white-flowered one?, What did Mendel count?)
Practice: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares workbook
Earth and Space Sciences
SC.6.12.4.d Analyze and interpret data on weather and climate to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effect.
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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