West Virginia Grade 6 science standards

S.6.1 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple 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

S.6.2 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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

S.6.3 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.

Lessons: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration (Where does a tree's mass come from?, What happens to the food a plant makes?)

Practice: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration workbook

S.6.4 Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.

Lessons: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration (What happens to the food a plant makes?)

Practice: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration workbook

S.6.5 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (What happens to a population when food runs out?)

Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook

S.6.6 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Lessons: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration (How does energy from the Sun move through a whole ecosystem?)

Practice: How Plants Make Food: Photosynthesis and Respiration workbook

S.6.7 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

Lessons: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom (What happens to a population when food runs out?, How can we protect an ecosystem's services?) (partly)

Practice: Ecosystems and Biomes: Who Depends on Whom workbook

S.6.13 Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

Lessons: The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice (Is summer when Earth is closest to the Sun?, Why are summer days longer?, Why is sunlight stronger in summer?) (partly)

Practice: The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice workbook · Sun, Earth and Moon workbook

S.6.18 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the change 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

S.6.21 Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each.

Lessons: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers (Which source should we trust?) (partly) · 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: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook