Grade 6 weather and seasons
Daily and seasonal changes, measuring weather, and climate. Here is what we have for Grade 6.
Lessons
Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move
Why tires go soft in winter, why sidewalks have gaps, and how a thermometer knows. Five lessons on what heating and cooling do to the particles in everything around us.
Climate Clues
Tree rings, old weather records and what your own town's numbers say. Three lessons on how scientists tell climate apart from a cold week.
The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice
Is summer when Earth is closest to the Sun? Students test the idea with real 2026 orbit distances and city temperatures from both hemispheres, walk a human orbit, graph real solstice day lengths from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego and work out why a high Sun heats more than a low one. Nothing to buy: just the printed sheets and the room.
Online practice
- Unit price: find the price of one item
- Unit price: find the cost of several items
- Unit price: which is the better buy?
- Find the sale price after a discount
- Compare unit prices to find the better buy
Free tools
Weather Station
A live thermometer for any town. Read the scale, compare cities, and log the day's temperature for a weather unit.
Dice Roller
Roll up to six big dice for games and math centres: regular six-sided dice or 4, 8, 10, 12 and 20-sided ones, with the total and a tally of every roll.
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