Grade 6 - Alberta Science - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 6 Alberta Science Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Earth Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is climate?
• Earth’s systems and their impact on climate (lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere)
• Greenhouse gas effect
• Experiment – carbon dioxide effects
• Human activities that create greenhouse gases
• How geography influences climate – latitude, elevation, proximity to oceans, urban setting
• Natural processes causing climate change – volcanoes, Sun’s orbit, and meteors
• Newspaper article - "Massive Meteor Strikes Earth, Shifts Climate!"
• Assignment – writing a newspaper article on volcanoes changing climate
• What is climate change?
• How climate change affects wildlife
• Climate change – melting glaciers
• Effects of melting glaciers
• Creating an infographic – melting glaciers
• Letter to the Editor – reducing emissions
• Clean energy and reducing greenhouse gases
• Reducing consumption and waste – beyond the 3 R’s
• Activity – repurposing waste
• Activity – reselling using an online assignment
• Extreme weather in Canada – hottest day, coldest day, most snowfall, etc.
• Extreme weather in the world – hottest day, coldest day, most snowfall, etc.
• Climate change and extreme weather – wildfires, droughts, flooding, heatwaves, storms
• Coding activity – Tsunami Buoys – writing code
• Tropical storms – cyclones and hurricanes
• Evacuation orders – wildfires in Alberta
• Climate change – impact on farming
• Climate change and its affect on traditional ways of life
• Seasonal rounds of Indigenous groups affected by climate change
• Climate changes through history – extinction events: ice ages, dinosaurs
• Extinction of dinosaurs – meteor, volcano, climate change
• Activity – creating a model of a meteor hitting Earth
• Historical weather data in Calgary – temperature data
• Sea ice and sea level data
• Changes in extreme weather in Canada – wildfires, droughts, heatwaves
• Extreme weather around the world – tornadoes, monsoons, blizzards, wildfires
• Activity – water bottle tornado
• Technologies used to predict extreme weather events – RADAR, Weather satellites, and computer models
• Writing code – weather reports and writing a weather forecasting phone app
• Coding activity – abstraction in computer science
• Programming flow chart
• Traditional knowledge and modern technologies in tracking climate change
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is an ecosystem?
• Biotic components and abiotic components of ecosystems
• Terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems
• Experiment – designing a zoo enclosure
• STEM – paying for the zoo enclosure
• Ecosystem interactions – how everything connects
• Decomposers and detritivores – important part of ecosystems
• Climate, vegetation, animals, size, geography locations of different ecosystems: arctic, desert, grasslands, forests, and wetlands
• Biotic and abiotic interactions in different ecosystems – arctic, desert, grasslands, forests, wetlands
• Coding activity – Building The Line in Saudi Arabia: coding the desalination process and solar panels
• Ecosystem profiles: biotic and abiotic components around a log
• Activity – making a bird feeder
• What is biodiversity?
• Longitudinal biodiversity gradient – more biodiversity at the equator, less at the poles
• Describing how the abiotic components of an ecosystem affects the biodiversity
• Biodiversity in deserts, forests, grasslands, and oceans
• Experiment – making a model ecosystem in a bottle
• Technologies used to monitor ecosystems
• Coding activity – remote control photography
• STEM assignment – creating a robot camera for monitoring ecosystems
• Ecosystems and greenhouse gases
• Photosynthesis – chlorophyll, storing starches, producing oxygen
• Experiment – demonstrating the role of light in photosynthesis
• Experiment – demonstrating how sugars are stored as starch
• Experiment – demonstrating how oxygen is produced during photosynthesis
• The role of plants in an ecosystem – producing oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide, cleaning ecosystems
• Experiment – soil erosion model
• Humans need plants – clothing, buildings, energy, medicine, oxygen, food
• Indigenous use of plants – food, medicine, shelter, clothing
• The offering of tobacco – harmony, giving back, respect, sustainability
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• External Forces Contact and Non-Contact Forces
• Experiment – Egg Drop
• Contact Forces - Frictional Force
• Experiment – Friction Car Ramp
• Contact Forces - Applied Force and Spring Force
• Experiment – Popsicle Sticks Catapult
• Internal Forces – Compression, Tension, Shear and Tension
• Experiment – Testing Internal Forces
• Identifying Forces Acting on Structures
• Forces Destroy Tacoma Narrows Bridge
• Beams and Trusses
• Bridges – Tension or Compression?
• Sports – Protective Equipment
• Forces in Sports
• Understanding Plasticity and Elasticity
• Action and Reaction Forces
• Newton’s Third Law of Motion
• Activity – Balloon Car
• Renewable vs Non-Renewable Energy
• Story: A Tale of Renewable Energy
• Alberta’s Energy Usage
• Responsible Management of Energy Resources
• Restoration of the Wapisiw Lookout
• Processed and Unprocessed Energy
• Unprocessed Energy - Windmill
• Activity – Unprocessed Energy Device
• Transforming and Generating Electricity
• Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Hydro Energy, Geothermal, Nuclear Power
• Generating Electricity – Effect on Environment
• Electricity in Alberta
• Moving Electricity in Alberta
• Activity: Model of an Electrical Power System
• Electricity and Coding
• What is Binary Code?
• Writing Code – TV Remote
• Electric vs Fuel Burning Vehicles
• Research – Comparing Vehicles
• STEM Assignment – Self Driving Vehicles
• Coding – Robot Lawn Mower
• Coding – Self Driving Car
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Space Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Conception of the Earth – Flat Earth, Geo-Centred Theory, and Sun-Centred Theory
• The Universe, Solar System, Galaxies, Planets
• Celestial bodies in our solar system – dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids
• Diagram of our Solar System
• Size of the Universe, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy
• Classifying planets – gas giants and terrestrial planets
• Assignment – planet profile
• Comparing Earth with Mars, Jupiter with Mercury, Saturn with Neptune, and Uranus with Venus
• Story – Visiting all 8 Planets
• Assignment – creating a model solar system
• Natural satellites – moons
• Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt
• Meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids
• Celestial bodies - emitting or reflecting light
• Gravity – reading and science experiment and the force of gravity on all 8 planets
• Pluto – from planet to dwarf planet
• What is the habitable zone?
• Potential life in our universe – Life on Mars, Kepler 186f, Europa: a moon of Jupiter
• 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
• Coding activity – coding the movement of the Mars Rover
• STEM assignment – building a Mars rover and coding how it will work and what functions it will have
• Experiment – creating a model rover
• Natural satellites versus artificial satellites
• Ex-Alta 1 and AlbertaSat: Alberta’s first satellite
• Experiment – making a model satellite
• International space station
• Coding activity – abstraction in computer science
• Programming flow chart – simplifying complex systems and machines
• Creating a flow chart that represents how a satellite works
• STEM assignment – making a space machine
• Controversy of space travel – downsides (dangerous and costly)
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Matter Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The particle theory of matter
• Intermolecular forces – attraction of particles
• Changes in state involving heat
• Melting point
• Experiment – testing the melting point of ice
• Boiling point
• Freezing point
• Real-world connection - Freezing rain
• Phase changes – changes in volume but not mass
• Experiment – testing the mass of solids versus liquids (ice versus liquid water)
• Evaporation – particle movement and attraction
• Experiment – testing evaporation in different settings
• Condensation – particle movement and attraction
• Experiment – testing condensation
• Thermal expansion of gases – particle movement and volume
• Experiment – testing thermal expansion of gases
• Thermal expansion of liquids – how a thermometer works
• Experiment – making a thermometer
• Thermal expansion of solids – railway tracks, sidewalks, glass
• Potholes – freeze/thaw process and expansion/contraction
• Real-world connection – DuSable Bridge in Chicago
• Choosing the right materials in building
• Properties of solid water (ice) versus liquid water
• Ice is less dense than liquid water
• Floating ice is an insulator for aquatic life
• Experiment – testing the insulating properties of ice
• Density of water – Lake Turnover Effect
• Story – hypothesizing the effects of denser ice than liquid water
• Coding activities – what is abstraction in computer science?
• Abstraction activity – simplifying machines
• Coding an ice maker
• Abstraction flow chart – learning the shapes of a coding flow chart
• Programming a hair dryer using a flow chart
• STEM Assignment – making a water/ice related machine
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 6 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Science Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 6, Alberta Science Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.