6th Grade Curriculum
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- Pull out for band, chorus, and orchestra
- Cooperative work
- Refinement of skills
- Team building activities
- Responsive Design
- Conflict resolution
- Goal setting
- Problem-solving activities
- Games
- Community Service
- Bullying prevention
- Healthy coping strategies
- Empathy and communication
- Taking responsibility
- Organization
Mindset
- Math and Reading skills
- Current events
- Read aloud
- Thought-provoking activities
Reading/Oral & Written Communication Content
Students will gain skills in:
- vocabulary building through a variety of text (fiction and nonfiction)
- identifying context clues, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, and contractions
- previewing and predicting
- summarizing and making inferences
- skimming and scanning various text
- identifying main events, details, and sequence of events
- comparing and contrasting
- identifying cause and effect
- using and recognizing metaphors, similes and analogies
- identifying literary elements
- making and supporting judgments and interpretations with evidence from text
- contributing meaningfully to discussions in large and small groups
- researching a topic to effectively communicate ideas
- using notes, outlines, visual aids and technology to enhance oral reports and presentations
- formulating questions to gather information, conduct investigations, and solve problems
- taking notes, selecting, and synthesizing relevant information
- utilizing the Writing Process
- writing essays, formal letters, poetry, research, etc.
- learning positive oral presentation skill
Math Content
Students will compute, calculate, and explore:
- computations of fractions
- improper fractions and mixed numbers
- solving and interpreting data area and perimeter of regular & irregular shapes
- area and perimeter of regular & irregular shapes
- computations of decimals and percents
- estimating and rounding
- percent value
- identifying patterns of change
- creating and analyzing tables and graphs
- order of operations
- interpreting data and data collection
- geometric figures negative numbers
- negative numbers
- translations, rotations, & reflections
- addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational and irrational numbers
Social Studies Content
Students will study and be introduced to:
- 5 themes of geography – movement, region, human-environment interaction, location, and place
- Systems – social, political, and economic
- Ancient Civilizations – Mesopotamia, Egypt Greece, Rome, Aztec/Incan/Mayan, India, and China/Japan
Science Content
Students will experiment with and investigate:
- Matter and the scientific method
- Ecology, ecosystems, and biomes
- Environmental problems
- Weather systems and the atmosphere