BC Science - Grade 6 - Full Year Bundle - NEWLY UPDATED

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BC Science Curriculum - Grade 6. This product was created to cover all of the expectations in the BC Science Grade 6 curriculum.

There are 475+ activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the science curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, research assignments, diagrams, true/false, and much more!

We have added STEM activities as well as hands on experiments for students to learn the content in the curriculum.

Check out the previews of these units to learn more about how it can benefit your students. We know you will love this no-prep, just print or upload to Google, time-saving resource!

Body Systems

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are body systems?
• Nervous system reading and questions
• Nervous system diagram
• Experiment – ruler drop
• Optical illusions - reading and activity
• Experiment – performing and creating an optical illusion
• Research your own optical illusion
• Optical illusion – mirages
• Stroke affecting the nervous system
• Epilepsy affecting the nervous system
• Nervous system and paralysis
• Experiment – paralysis
• Female reproductive system – reading and diagram
• Male reproductive system – reading and diagram
• Hormonal system
• Hormones – adrenaline
• Hormones – insulin
• Diabetes – type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• Excretory system – diagram and reading
• Common disease – urinary tract infection
• First People’s understanding of body systems
• Interrelations between systems
• Parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system – how they affect other body systems
• Nervous systems interacting with the excretory, reproductive, and hormonal system
• Activities – word search and word scramble
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Mixtures

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are mixtures?
• Homogeneous mixtures versus heterogeneous mixtures
• Activity – classifying homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures
• Experiment – making homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures
• Mechanical mixtures – solids mixing with solids, liquids and solids, gas and solids, etc.
• Solutions
• Solutes and solvents
• Heterogeneous suspensions
• Experiment – creating a heterogeneous suspensions
• Heterogeneous colloids
• Examples of heterogeneous colloids
• Experiment – creating a heterogeneous colloids
• Heterogeneous emulsions
• Examples of heterogeneous emulsions
• What is an emulsifier?
• Experiment – creating a heterogeneous emulsions
• Differences between suspensions, colloids, and emulsions
• Separating mixtures
• Sedimentation – Roman Aqueducts and settling sections
• Deltas – silt deposits
• PRP injections – centrifugation separation method
• Experiment – separating mixtures
• Research – filters, settling, centrifuge, sieves, funnels, sublimination
• First People’s separation and extraction methods
• Total dissolved solids (TDS) in drinking water
• Experiment – making a water filter
• Refining oil – separating fuels using fractional distillation method
• Oil spills – separating oil and water to clean up oil spills
• Oil spills in Indigenous communities
• Coding activity – cleaning up oil spills
• Impact of separating mixtures on the environment – maple syrup
• Activities – word search and word scramble
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Forces and Motion

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Forces – push and pull
• External forces acting on objects – contact and non-contact forces
• Non-contact forces – magnetism, electrostatic, and gravity
• Gravity – a pulling force
• Experiment – dropping different shaped objects and objects with different masses
• Experiment – Egg Drop
• Magnetism – using magnetic force to move a car
• Frictional force – static friction, rolling friction, and sliding friction
• Experiment – friction car ramp
• Experiment – frictional force power
• Contact forces – muscular force and spring force
• Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Examples of balanced and unbalanced forces in our lives
• Force diagrams – deciding which direction the object will move
• Calculating the net force acting on an object
• Objects changing direction – sports
• Newton’s First Law of Motion
• Experiment – demonstrating the First Law of Motion
• Inertia – reading and questions
• Experiment – demonstrating inertia
• Story – Prince George, the Scientist demonstrating the First Law of Motion
• Assignment – writing your own story about the First Law of Motion
• Newton’s Second Law of Motion
• Experiment – demonstrating the Second Law of Motion
• Newton’s Third Law of Motion
• Experiment – Balloon car – two activities
• Activities – word search and word scramble
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Space

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Universe, Solar System, Galaxies, Planets
• Diagram of our Solar System
• Size of the Universe, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy
• Classifying planets – gas giants and terrestrial planets
• Characteristics of gas giants
• Characteristics of terrestrial planets
• Assignment – planet profile
• What is the habitable zone?
• Potential life in our universe – Life on Mars, Kepler 186f, Europa: a moon of Jupiter
• Natural Satellites – moons
• Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt
• Meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids
• Identifying celestial bodies
• Gravity – reading and science experiment
• Mass versus weight – activity, reading, and experiment
• Constellations – stars in our galaxy
• The Aurora Borealis – First Peoples’ Perspective
• Haida perspective – Creation story involving the aurora borealis
• Indigenous constellation story – Great Bear Hunt (Mista Muskwa)
• Experiment – creating constellations on geoboards
• Conception of the Earth – Flat Earth, Geo-Centred Theory, and Sun-Centred Theory
• Day and night – Earth’s axis and rotation
• Day and night around the world – research assignment
• Experiment – making a sundial
• Seasons – Earth’s orbit around the Sun
• Moons in our solar system – research assignment
• Phases of the moons – reading and experiment
• Ocean tides – lunar and solar tides
• Celestial objects visible in the night sky
• Canada and space exploration – technologies created by Canadians
• Space – extreme environment – temperature, zero gravity, air pressure
• Surviving in space – technologies needed
• Benefits of space exploration – using satellites
• Understanding climate change using space technologies – satellite images
• Mars Rovers – reading and research activity
• Controversy of space travel – downsides (dangerous and costly)
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students learn the big ideas in the curriculum.

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