Gizmos for Northwest Territories - Science: 6th Grade (Ontario Curriculum adopted 2004)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this province's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

1: : Life Systems - Diversity of Living Things

1.G: : General Learning Outcomes

1.G.1: : Demonstrate an understanding of ways in which classification systems are used to understand the diversity of living things and the interrelationships among living things;

1.G.2: : Investigate classification systems and some of the processes of life common to all animals (e.g., growth, energy, reproduction, movement, response, and adaptation); and

1.S: : Specific Learning Outcomes

1.S.g: : Describe microscopic living things using appropriate tools (hand lens) to assist them with their observations of pond life; and

1.S.h: : Describe ways in which microorganisms, like larger creatures meet their basic needs (water, air, energy).

2: : Matter and Materials - Properties of Air and Characteristics of Flight

2.S: : Specific Learning Outcomes

2.S.e: : Demonstrate and describe methods used to increase lift or alter drag in flying devices (e.g., flaps on a aircraft's wings, wing slope, control surfaces, fuselage, tail, curvature of the wing);

3: : Energy and Control - Electricity

3.G: : General Learning Outcomes

3.G.1: : Demonstrate understanding that electrical energy can be transformed into other forms of energy, such as heat, light, sound and mechanical energy;

3.G.2: : Design and construct a variety of electrical circuits and investigate ways in which electrical energy is transformed into other forms of energy;

3.S: : Specific Learning Outcomes

3.S.a: : Investigate ways in which electrical energy can be transformed into other forms of energy (e.g., light, heat, and sound);

3.S.b: : Compare the conductivity of a variety of solids and liquids;

3.S.c: : Identify, through experimentation, ways in which chemical energy can be transformed into electrical energy (e.g., build a circuit using a lemon or a potato clock kit);

4: : Structures and Mechanisms - Motion

4.G: : General Learning Outcomes

4.G.1: : Demonstrate an understanding of different kinds of motion (linear, rotational, reciprocating, oscillating);

4.S: : Specific Learning Outcomes

4.S.b: : Describe, using their observations, the purposes or uses of three classes of simple levers (e.g., seesaw/first class, wheelbarrow/second class, tongs/third class);

4.S.c: : Demonstrate an understanding of how linkages (systems of levers) transmit motion and force (e.g., by means of a fixed pivot, a moving pivot, and/or a fulcrum);

4.S.d: : Demonstrate awareness that a moving mass has kinetic energy that can be transferred to a stationary object (e.g., a car hitting a parked car will cause the parked car to move);

4.S.e: : Demonstrate awareness that friction (e.g., rubbing hands together/moving parts in a machine create heat due to friction) transforms kinetic energy into heat energy; and

4.S.f: : Investigate ways of reducing friction (e.g., use a ball bearing, lubricants/special surfaces) so that an object can be moved more easily.

5: : Earth and Space Systems - Space

5.G: : General Learning Outcomes

5.G.1: : Demonstrate an understanding of the patterns of change between heavenly bodies inside and outside the solar system as observed from Earth (e.g., solar and lunar eclipses, tides, phases of the moon, position of the constellations) and of the physical characteristics of the different components of the solar system;

5.G.2: : Investigate, using models and simulations, the relationship between the sun, Earth, and moon, the patterns of change observable on Earth that result from the movement of these bodies, and the physical characteristics of the different components of the solar system (e.g., the sun and planets, inner planets and outer planets); and

5.S: : Specific Learning Outcomes

5.S.a: : Describe the physical characteristics of components of the solar system, the sun, planets, natural satellites, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids (e.g., relative size, surface, colour and temperature);

5.S.d: : Identify cycles in nature (e.g., cycles of day and night and seasons) and describe the changes within the cycles (e.g., observe the phases of the moon over several months to determine the pattern of change, and record these observations);

5.S.e: : Describe, using models or simulations, how the Earth?s rotation causes the cycle of day and night and how the Earth?s revolution around the sun causes the cycle of the seasons;