Grade 6

 

Students in sixth grade are enrolled in four core courses of Science, Language Arts, Ancient World History, and Math for the full year. Health and Wellness, Digital Citizenship, Intro into Performing Arts, Robotics, and Physical Education are required in a seven-week rotation course.  Students participate in the Skills for Life Program, Chorus, or Band, for five days per week for the full year.  

 

 

The sixth grade Language Arts program is an integrated program. The major purpose of this course is to develop student focus and active engagement with a variety of texts. Students are required to analyze, identify, define, and explain, with an increased emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with a focus on textual evidence.

 

 

6th grade math students will focus on developing fluency and understanding when performing operations with whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and ratios as well as, understand positive and negative numbers.    Students will learn to write, interpret, and explain    statements of rational    number. Students will     learn to write and evaluate numerical expressions and generate equivalent expressions, solve single variable equations and inequalities, identify parts of expressions, and identify independent and dependent variables. Students will apply their geometry skills to  compose and decompose shapes to find area, surface area and volume. Statistical skills will be applied to identifying statistical questions, displaying, interpreting, and summarizing numerical data from various graphs, and plots, as well as identifying and applying various measures of center and variability. Students will apply their mathematical skills and reasoning to real world situations throughout the year.

 

The course covers topics in earth science, physical science, and life science. In the first part of the course students are introduced to the structures and properties of matter, atoms, chemical reactions and energy. Next, students will engage in lessons focused on cells and their organelles, photosynthesis, and cellular respiration. Finally, the students will learn about the Earth and its movements, the solar system, and gravity. This course is interactive and hands-­on.  Students will be participating in whole-group direct instruction, small-group lab activities, interactive escape rooms, and stations. Grades will be reflective of participation in classroom activities, assignment completion, quizzes and cumulative tests.

 

Sixth Grade students focus on World    History. Students will gain insight into their human heritage and how it has influenced their lives.  They will begin to think in a critical manner about the past and appreciate how humans relate to these events. The course begins with Paleolithic and Neolithic humans (hunters/gatherers to early farmers) and proceeds to examine how the first organized communities changed human behavior. Students will investigate the cradles of civilization in  Africa and Asia, as well as ancient Greek and Roman history and culture. Themes of social studies will  be emphasized.