South Carolina Grade 6 science standards

6-ESS2-1 Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

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 · Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals

6-ESS2-2 Construct an explanation based on 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

6-ESS2-3 Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the 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)

6-ESS2-4 Develop a model 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)

Practice: The Water Cycle, Start to Finish workbook

6-ESS3-2 Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to identify patterns, which help 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

6-LS1-1 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

Lessons: Cells: The Smallest Living Things (How big is a cell?)

Practice: Cells: The Smallest Living Things workbook

6-LS1-2 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells 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)

Practice: Cells: The Smallest Living Things workbook

6-PS1-4 Develop and use a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.

Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move (Why do bike tires go soft in winter?, Why does food colouring spread faster in hot water?, How does a thermometer know?) (partly)

Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook

6-PS3-3 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

6-PS3-4 Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the 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