Materials & Resources

Choose the resources below that help you and your student reach your goals. You do no not have to use all of the resources below. However, these resources are suggestions.

• Lessons in Nature Study 6th Grade by Jenkins and Kellogg
  Lessons in Nature Study (guide) 6th Grade
• Alternative text Nature Study and Life (on Menu Bar) by Clifton Hodge, Ph.D.
• (For more information about the above textbooks, see the notes on the 3rd Grade Science page. If there is more than one student in your family, everyone may like to observe the same set of animals and plants together.)
• Science reading report
• Science Notebook How to Keep a Field Journal

Topics to be covered this year

• Classification of living things (Sea World taxonomy fact sheets) (quiz)
  • optional related learning games: overview cloze, vocabulary matching game, general review, advanced quiz, super challenging vocabulary matching game, review of plant classes, challenging review of animal classes
• Ecosystems
• Ecology (summary) and the environment (optional: turtles in trouble, save our species)
• Microbes (and activity) (cybertext)
• Algae and fungi
• Human body
• Food for growth and energy
• Climate and weather quizzes
• Recycling of resources
• Elementary geology (optional: free brainpop rock cycle video, Grand Canyon) (cybertext)
• Oceans (optional enrichment)
• Electric and magnetic interactions
• Electricity and its uses
• Sound, light (and quiz), and heat (heat quiz1 and quiz2) (cybertext)
  
• Nuclear energy and radioactivity
• Solar and geothermal energy (and some optional energy videos)
• Conservation
• Elements and compounds
• Rocks and rock hunting

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Universe
• Simple astronomy Motions of the planets and moon phases game, virtual solar system
• Space and space travel
• Scientific theory quiz
• Inventions and discoveries

Additional