Sixth Grade
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:
English Language Arts
- Support ideas and arguments using evidence from multiple credible sources
- Use technology tools to communicate effectively with others
- Write complete, effective sentences.paragraphs, and essays for a variety of purposes
- Analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
- Read a variety of genres (including types of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry)and identify the components that make each unique
- Analyze literary elements and their contributions to the text
- Prove central theme and main idea by providing support details from text
Energy and the Environment
- think big and toward the future as they explore sustainable solutions to our energy needs and investigate the impact of energy in our lives and in the world.
Math
- Surface area and volume
- Multiplying and dividing fractions
- Ratios and rates
- Fractions, decimals, and percents
- Angles
- Order of operations
- Probability
- Number Sense
- Math Facts
Science
- Use past failures to revise and improve design and experimentation
- Analyze data to accurately explain their findings in an experiment and show supporting evidence
- Use the appropriate tool and measurements so they can accurately describe, represent, and analyze phenomena in the physical world
- Create and interpret multiple types of graphs when provided an experimental process
- Create a model representation to explain processes
Social Studies
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:
- Interpret and use key features of a map
- Compare and contrast different points of view
- Analyze the cause and effect of a conflict
- Demonstrate effective collaboration skills
- Summarize main idea through clear and coherent writing on a topic
- Use text features to support comprehension of informational text
- Summarize the main idea of a topic