Gizmos for Manitoba - Science: 6th Grade (Manitoba Curriculum adopted 1999)

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

6-0: : Overall Skills and Attitudes

6-0.3: : Planning

6-0-3A.: : Students will: Formulate a prediction/hypothesis that identifies a cause and effect relationship.

6-0.5: : Observing, Measuring, Recording

6-0-5A.: : Students will: Make observations that are relevant to a specific question.

6-0-5F.: : Record and organize observations in a variety of ways.

6-0.6: : Analysing and Interpreting

6-0-6A.: : Construct graphs to display data, and interpret and evaluate these and other graphs.

6-0.7: : Concluding and Applying

6-0-7C.: : Students will: Identify a new prediction/hypothesis based on results of investigations.

6-0-7G.: : Communicate methods, results, conclusions, and new knowledge in a variety of ways.

6-1: : Diversity of Living Things

6-1-04: : Identify living things using an existing classification key, and explain the rationale used.

6-3: : Electricity

6-3-07: : Students will: Experiment to classify a variety of materials as insulators or conductors.

6-3-08: : Students will: Demonstrate and describe the function of switches in electrical circuits.

6-3-09: : Students will: Construct and diagram simple series circuits and simple parallel circuits.

6-3-10: : Students will: Explore to determine factors that affect bulb brightness in simple series and parallel circuits.

6-3-14: : Students will: Identify forms of energy that may result from the transformation of electrical energy, and recognize that energy can only be changed from one form into another, not created or destroyed.

6-3-16: : Identify renewable and non-renewable sources of electrical energy, and discuss advantages and disadvantages of each.

6-4: : The Solar System

6-4-09: : Students will: Identify the planets in the solar system and describe their size relative to the Earth and their position relative to the Sun.

6-4-11: : Students will: Recognize that mass is the amount of matter in an object, that weight is the force of gravity on the mass of an object, and that the force of gravity varies from planet to planet.

6-4-12: : Students will: Explain, using models and simulations, how the Earth's rotation causes the cycle of day and night, and how the Earth's tilt of axis and revolution cause the yearly cycle of seasons.

6-4-14: : Students will: Explain how the relative positions of the Earth, moon, and Sun are responsible for moon phases and eclipses.

Correlation last revised: 11/28/2023

Manitoba - Science: 6th Grade

Manitoba Curriculum | Adopted: 1999

6-0: : Overall Skills and Attitudes

6-1: : Diversity of Living Things

6-3: : Electricity

6-4: : The Solar System