Illustration-students will create a diagram of the energy pyramid showing the different roles organisms play in an ecosystem and to show the flow of energy in an ecosystem After: Unit Test (Post-test has to be the same as the pretest) Science Pacing Guide Time Frame: December January Sixth Grade – Unit 3: Forces and Motion Science & Engineering Practices Crosscutting Concepts Literacy Standards Mathematics Standards RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual MP.2 Reason abstractly and Asking Questions and Defining Systems and System Models Problems evidence to support analysis of quantitatively. Asking questions and defining science and technical texts, attending problems in grades 6–8 builds from to the precise details of explanations Stability and Change grades K–5 experiences and Explanations of stability and change or descriptions. 6.NS.C.5 Understand that positive progresses to specifying relationships in natural or designed systems can be and negative numbers are used between variables, and clarifying constructed by examining the changes together to describe quantities having arguments and models. over time and forces at different RST.6-8.3 Follow precisely a opposite directions or values; use Ask questions that can be scales. (MS-PS2-2) multistep procedure when carrying positive and negative numbers to investigated within the scope of out experiments, taking represent quantities in real-world the classroom, outdoor Connections to Engineering, measurements, or performing contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 environment, and museums and Technology, and Applications of technical tasks. in each situation. (MS-PS2-1) other public facilities with Science
Illustration-students will create a diagram of the energy pyramid showing the different roles organisms play in an ecosystem and to show the flow of energy in an ecosystem After: Unit Test (Post-test has to be the same as the pretest) Science Pacing Guide Time Frame: December – January Sixth Grade Unit 3: Forces and Motion Science & Engineering Practices Crosscutting Concepts Literacy Standards Mathematics Standards Asking Questions and Defining Problems Asking questions and defining problems in grades 6–8 builds from grades K–5 experiences and progresses to specifying relationships between variables, and clarifying arguments and models. Ask questions that can be investigated within the scope of the classroom, outdoor environment, and museums and other public facilities with Systems and System Models Stability and Change Explanations of stability and change in natural or designed systems can be constructed by examining the changes over time and forces at different scales. (MS-PS2-2) Connections to Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions. RST.6-8.3 Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks. MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 6.NS.C.5 Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values; use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation. (MS-PS2-1)
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