Grade 6 - Space Unit - Alberta Science - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 6 - Space Unit - Alberta Science Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 6 Space unit in the 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 workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This product was created to cover the NEW Alberta 2023 Science Grade 6 Curriculum – Strand 5 - Space.

There are 155 activity sheets that cover the outcomes in the NEW science curriculum. This unit contains many fun activities, including readings, experiments, assignments, matching, true or false, and coding.

We have added computer science activities as well to cover the outcomes in the NEW science curriculum. Check out the preview of this unit to learn more about how it can benefit your students.

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

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 6 - Space Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Science Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Space Unit, 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 a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.