MI-Star Grade 6

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6.1.2: What causes water to go into a stream?

Water Cycle

6.1.3: Does all the water that falls as precipitation make it to the stream? If not, where does it go?

Water Cycle

6.1.4: Why does water move differently in different states?

Phase Changes
Phases of Water

6.1.5: How does water change state, from solid to liquid to gas? How does this affect the water system?

Phase Changes
Phases of Water

6.1.6: Where does water in our community come from and where does it go?How can humans change the way that water moves?

Water Cycle

6.2: The RAD Disease: Investigating and Modeling Body Systems

6.2.1: How does a mystery pathogen make people sick and how can we come up with a treatment plan?

Disease Spread
Virus Lytic Cycle

6.2.3: How do we know if something is living?

Cell Types

6.2.4: How do the organ systems work together to help humans survive?

Circulatory System
Digestive System
Senses

6.2.5: What are the subsystems of an organ system and how do these subsystems work together to function? 

Cell Types
Circulatory System
Digestive System
Senses

6.2.6: How does a healthy cell work?

Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Structure
Cell Types

6.2.7: How do cell membranes do their jobs?

Cell Structure
Osmosis

6.3: Chemical Processes in Organism Digestion

6.3.1: How do we choose foods to address diet-related problems? 

Digestive System
Identifying Nutrients

6.3.2: How can we tell foods apart? What is food made up of?

Identifying Nutrients

6.3.4: How do we change substances and what they?re made of?

Chemical Changes

6.3.7: How do we choose foods to address diet-related problems?

Digestive System
Identifying Nutrients

6.4: Protect Your Cell Phone: Forces and Motion

6.4.2: What happens when we push or pull on something?

Fan Cart Physics
Force and Fan Carts

6.4.3: Why do things get crushed?

Air Track
Crumple Zones
Free Fall Tower

6.4.4: What happens when two objects collide? What are the components of a fair investigation?

Air Track
Crumple Zones
Free-Fall Laboratory

6.4.6: What causes some objects? motion to change?

Fan Cart Physics
Force and Fan Carts
Free Fall Tower

6.5: Keeping it Fresh: What Plants Need to Grow

6.5.2: How does the environment affect plant growth?

Measuring Trees
Seed Germination

6.5.3: How will the amount of fertilizer affect a plant?s growth? How does the amount of resources affect a plant?

Growing Plants
Seed Germination

6.5.5: How is it possible to keep a supply of cabbage plants growing? How do resources affect seed production in a plant?

Seed Germination

6.5.6: Why do different organisms look and grow differently?

Fast Plants® 1 - Growth and Genetics
Fast Plants® 2 - Mystery Parent

6.5.7: Can we exactly predict plant growth and food production? Why/why not?

Fast Plants® 1 - Growth and Genetics
Fast Plants® 2 - Mystery Parent
Growing Plants
Measuring Trees
Seed Germination

6.6: The Tangled Web We Weave: Interactions Within Ecosytems

6.6.2: What do organisms need to live, grow, and reproduce? How is the number of organisms in a population related to the things they need to live, grow, and reproduce?

Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Plants and Snails
Rabbit Population by Season

6.6.3: What happens to organisms and their populations when they must share limited resources with other organisms?

Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem

6.6.4: When a population of organism eats another, how can each population as well as the ecosystem change?

Food Chain
Prairie Ecosystem

6.6.5: How can a relationship between two species benefit both species? How can this beneficial relationship affect each population?

Plants and Snails

6.6.6: What is the effect on populations of organisms when the abiotic components of an ecosystem change?

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem

6.6.7: What might be the effects of adding a new species to an ecosystem?

Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors

6.7: Cycling of Energy and Matter Through Food Webs

6.7.3: Where do plants get their matter?

Growing Plants

6.7.4: How do plants use air and water to grow?

Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab

6.7.5: If plants make sugar (glucose) why don?t all plants taste sweet? How do plants use compost?

Cell Energy Cycle

6.7.6: Where do plants get the energy they need to grow?

Photosynthesis Lab

6.7.7: Where do the animals get their matter and energy? 

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem

Content correlation last revised: 5/4/2020