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Skill plan for Stanford NGSS Integrated Curriculum - 6th grade

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1	Unit 1 Setting Things in Motion
Lift-Off Task: Objects in Motion
Lift-Off Task: Objects in Motion


Task 1: Energy in Motion		Thermal energy transfers 1. Predict heat flow and temperature changes 2. Compare thermal energy transfers Gravitational potential energy 3. Identify changes in gravitational potential energy Energy transformations 4. Energy transformation 5. Explore energy transformations: roller coaster ride 6. Explore energy transformations: bike ride
Task 1: Energy in Motion
Thermal energy transfers 1. Predict heat flow and temperature changes 2. Compare thermal energy transfers Gravitational potential energy 3. Identify changes in gravitational potential energy Energy transformations 4. Energy transformation 5. Explore energy transformations: roller coaster ride 6. Explore energy transformations: bike ride

Task 2: Sense and Respond		1. Body systems: perception and motion 2. Science literacy: how does the nervous system produce phantom pain?
Task 2: Sense and Respond
1. Body systems: perception and motion 2. Science literacy: how does the nervous system produce phantom pain?

Task 3: Interacting Subsystems		1. Body systems: circulation and respiration 2. Body systems: digestion 3. Body systems: removing waste 4. Organization in the human body: the heart and the circulatory system
Task 3: Interacting Subsystems
1. Body systems: circulation and respiration 2. Body systems: digestion 3. Body systems: removing waste 4. Organization in the human body: the heart and the circulatory system

Task 4: Got Cells?		1. Understanding cells
Task 4: Got Cells?
1. Understanding cells

Task 5: Parts of a Whole		Animal cells 1. Animal cell diagrams: label parts 2. Identify functions of animal cell parts Also consider: • Plant cell diagrams: label parts • Identify functions of plant cell parts • Compare cells and cell parts • Structure and function: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids • Understanding the chemistry of cellular respiration
Task 5: Parts of a Whole
Animal cells 1. Animal cell diagrams: label parts 2. Identify functions of animal cell parts Also consider: • Plant cell diagrams: label parts • Identify functions of plant cell parts • Compare cells and cell parts • Structure and function: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids • Understanding the chemistry of cellular respiration

Unit 1 Pop-Out: Engineering for Equity		1. Evaluate tests of engineering-design solutions 2. Explore the engineering-design process: going to the Moon!
Unit 1 Pop-Out: Engineering for Equity
1. Evaluate tests of engineering-design solutions 2. Explore the engineering-design process: going to the Moon!

2	Unit 2 Extreme Living
Lift-Off Task: Extreme Conditions		1. Identify parts of the engineering-design process 2. Explore the engineering-design process: going to the Moon! 3. Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions
Lift-Off Task: Extreme Conditions
1. Identify parts of the engineering-design process 2. Explore the engineering-design process: going to the Moon! 3. Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions

Task 1: Climate Part 1: Heating the Planet		1. Weather and climate around the world 2. Weather or climate? Cite text 3. Analyze models of the Earth-Sun-Moon system 4. What causes the seasons on Earth?
Task 1: Climate Part 1: Heating the Planet
1. Weather and climate around the world 2. Weather or climate? Cite text 3. Analyze models of the Earth-Sun-Moon system 4. What causes the seasons on Earth?

Task 2: Climate Part 2: Oceans and Atmosphere		1. Factors affecting climate: latitude 2. Use data to describe climates 3. Identify how particle motion affects temperature and pressure
Task 2: Climate Part 2: Oceans and Atmosphere
1. Factors affecting climate: latitude 2. Use data to describe climates 3. Identify how particle motion affects temperature and pressure

Task 3: A Water Molecule's Journey		Water cycle 1. Label parts of water cycle diagrams 2. Select parts of water cycle diagrams Particles and change of state 3. Particle motion and changes of state
Task 3: A Water Molecule's Journey
Water cycle 1. Label parts of water cycle diagrams 2. Select parts of water cycle diagrams Particles and change of state 3. Particle motion and changes of state

Task 4: Thermal Energy Transfer		Experimental design 1. Identify questions that can be investigated with a set of materials 2. Identify independent and dependent variables 3. Identify control and experimental groups Collect temperature data 4. Collect and graph temperature data Temperature and thermal energy transfers 5. How are temperature and mass related to thermal energy? 6. Compare thermal energy transfers Understand diffusion at the particle level 7. Understand an experimental protocol about diffusion 8. How does particle motion affect temperature?
Task 4: Thermal Energy Transfer
Experimental design 1. Identify questions that can be investigated with a set of materials 2. Identify independent and dependent variables 3. Identify control and experimental groups Collect temperature data 4. Collect and graph temperature data Temperature and thermal energy transfers 5. How are temperature and mass related to thermal energy? 6. Compare thermal energy transfers Understand diffusion at the particle level 7. Understand an experimental protocol about diffusion 8. How does particle motion affect temperature?

Task 5: Extreme Living Solutions		Thermal energy transfer 1. Predict heat flow and temperature changes Engineering design 2. Identify parts of the engineering-design process 3. Evaluate tests of engineering-design solutions 4. Use data from tests to compare engineering-design solutions
Task 5: Extreme Living Solutions
Thermal energy transfer 1. Predict heat flow and temperature changes Engineering design 2. Identify parts of the engineering-design process 3. Evaluate tests of engineering-design solutions 4. Use data from tests to compare engineering-design solutions

3	Unit 3 Nature via Nurture
Lift-Off Task: The Mystery of the Algal Bloom
Lift-Off Task: The Mystery of the Algal Bloom


Task 1: Forecasting the Weather		1. Identify and compare air masses 2. Explore air masses 3. How do air masses form?
Task 1: Forecasting the Weather
1. Identify and compare air masses 2. Explore air masses 3. How do air masses form?

Task 2: What Affects Plant Growth?		Design experiments 1. Identify control and experimental groups 2. Identify independent and dependent variables 3. Identify the experimental question Environmental factors 4. How do plants use and change energy? 5. Understand an experimental protocol about plant growth
Task 2: What Affects Plant Growth?
Design experiments 1. Identify control and experimental groups 2. Identify independent and dependent variables 3. Identify the experimental question Environmental factors 4. How do plants use and change energy? 5. Understand an experimental protocol about plant growth

Task 3: Genetics or Environment?		1. Inherited and acquired traits: use evidence to support a statement 2. How do genes and the environment affect plant growth? 3. Genes, proteins, and traits: understanding the genetic code
Task 3: Genetics or Environment?
1. Inherited and acquired traits: use evidence to support a statement 2. How do genes and the environment affect plant growth? 3. Genes, proteins, and traits: understanding the genetic code

Task 4: From Parent to Offspring		Parents and offspring 1. Match offspring to parents using inherited traits Genetic variation 2. Genetics vocabulary: genotype and phenotype 3. Genetics vocabulary: dominant and recessive 4. Complete and interpret Punnett squares 5. Use Punnett squares to calculate ratios of offspring types 6. Genetic variation in sexual reproduction Plant reproduction 7. Flowering plant and conifer life cycles 8. Moss and fern life cycles
Task 4: From Parent to Offspring
Parents and offspring 1. Match offspring to parents using inherited traits Genetic variation 2. Genetics vocabulary: genotype and phenotype 3. Genetics vocabulary: dominant and recessive 4. Complete and interpret Punnett squares 5. Use Punnett squares to calculate ratios of offspring types 6. Genetic variation in sexual reproduction Plant reproduction 7. Flowering plant and conifer life cycles 8. Moss and fern life cycles

4	Unit 4 A Warmer World
Lift-Off Task: Bad News For Bees		1. Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: explore a problem 2. Identify steps of the scientific method
Lift-Off Task: Bad News For Bees
1. Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: explore a problem 2. Identify steps of the scientific method

Task 1: Heating Up		1. The greenhouse effect 2. Evaluate claims about natural resource use: fossil fuels
Task 1: Heating Up
1. The greenhouse effect 2. Evaluate claims about natural resource use: fossil fuels

Task 2: It Takes Two		1. How can animal behaviors affect reproductive success? Identify evidence to support a claim 2. Calculate the averages of traits in a population 3. Use food chains to predict changes in populations
Task 2: It Takes Two
1. How can animal behaviors affect reproductive success? Identify evidence to support a claim 2. Calculate the averages of traits in a population 3. Use food chains to predict changes in populations

Task 3: Feeling the Impact		1. Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions
Task 3: Feeling the Impact
1. Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions

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