Tennessee Grade 6 science standards

6.ESS2.4 Develop and use 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.ESS3.1 Use data to explain the consumption and sustainability of natural resources (non-renewable and renewable) and the resulting impact on Earth’s system.

Lessons: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (Do more people always use more resources?) (partly)

Practice: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook

6.ETS1.1 Design, evaluate, and improve a possible solution for maintaining biodiversity of ecosystems.

Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (How can we protect an ecosystem's services?) (partly)

Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook

6.LS2.2 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of competitive, symbiotic, and predatory interactions among organisms across ecosystems.

Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (Are living things competitors, predators or partners?)

Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook

6.ETS1.2 Design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer by combining solutions or parts of solutions to solve a problem that can be communicated and explained to others.

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