6th Six Weeks (Week 5) STAAR Assessments Week

6th Six Weeks (Week 3 & 4) Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics

STAAR ASSESSMENT DAYS:

• Monday: May 14, 2018 - 6th Grade Mathematics STAAR Exam
• Tuesday: May 15, 2018 - 6th Grade Reading STAAR Exam

Earth:  A Rocky Planet

Plate Tectonics PowerPoint Presentation

Plate Tectonics: The 3 Plate Boundaries.

Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics Video

National Geographic Colliding Continents

The Major Tectonic Plates :

Ring of Fire Full Documentary

6th Six Weeks (Week 2) The Structure of the Earth

Layers of the Earth Powerpoint Presentation from class.

Structure of the Earth: Video

Our Story in Six Minutes

·         Lesson 1 Earth’s Layers

o   What are Earth’s Layers?

§  Compositional Layers

·         Core, Crust, Mantle

§  Physical Layers

·         Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer, & Inner Core

6th Six Weeks (Week 1): Ecology Review

8th & 7th Grade Benchmark Week 2:

Ecology Review:

• Complete Ecology poster presentations

5th Six Weeks (Week 6) Assessment Week

Benchmark Assessments and Six Weeks Assessments

Tuesday, April 10: Mathematics Benchmark

Wednesday, April 11: Reading Benchmark 

Thursday, April 12: 6th Grade Science & Social Studies Six Weeks Exam

5th Six Weeks (Week 5) Introduction to Ecology

Crash Course: Ecology Playlist

This is the power point we saw in class today.

·         Introduction to Ecology

o   How are parts of the environment connected?

§  Ecology

§  Levels of Organization

§  Biomes

§  Habitat and Niche

5th Six Weeks (Wk 4) Classification of living organisms (Taxonomy) cont..

Taxonomy Assessment: Tuesday, March 27th

• Classification of Organisms: Taxonomy

Introduction to Taxonomy

Taxonomy: Life's Filing System:

 VideoClassification Rap

Classification Rap 2

o Identify why and how scientists classify living things.
o Discuss Carolus Linnaeus’s contribution to classification.
o Describe the parts of the Scientific name
 Genus name & Species name
o Definition of Taxonomy

• How are organisms classified?
o List and compare the three domains of living things
o List and compare the four kingdoms of domain Eukarya
o List the eight levels of classification

• Branching Diagrams and Dichotomous Keys
o Describe branching diagrams and dichotomous keys.

BRANCHING DIAGRAM

DICHOTOMOUS KEY:

Classification of Humans: Homo sapiens