6th Grade Science

Sixth grade Science focuses on developing skills using critical thinking based upon the scientific process. Students will develop skills using both observation and inference based upon measurable evidence. They will participate in the measurement process used by scientists, with emphasis on the metric system and related units. Students will learn to ask testable questions and will be required to use their scientific knowledge to answer real world questions probing the importance of scientific knowledge. Content will focus mainly on the physical sciences such as Physics and Chemistry but students will also investigate properties of the Earth as well as the what is Life and basic interactions of Living Things.