STEM in Grade 6 | 6ème
Science Class in Grade 6 Meets Three Times / Week (Instruction in French)
Content (Physics and Chemistry):
Content (Physics and Chemistry):
- Water in our environment – mixtures and pure states
Content (Biology and Geology):
- Environmental features
- Organic and inorganic matter, cycle
- Food for humanity: food safety, food production, healthy diet
- Diversity, relationship and unity of the life forms
- Why is the Earth habitable?
Content (Technology):
- Analysis of the need
- How technical object works
- Building materials
- Energy
- Technological evolution
- Making a technical object
- Using a computer and numerical tools
- Scientific and technical approach
STEM Objectives:
- Gain a better understanding of the role of science in society
- Learn to use scientific language correctly and a variety of communication modes and formats as appropriate
- Demonstrate ability to understand scientific knowledge and to apply it to solve new problems
- Learn to design and carry out scientific investigations
- Develop skills to interpret data
- Develop safe, responsible, and collaborative working practices
- Acquire knowledge of how technical objects work
- Approach a problem creatively
- Develop critical analysis
- Use the design process
- Acquisition of technical languages
- Design – Create - Build
STEM Assessment:
- Lesson quizzes
- Chapter essays
- Documented research (Long-term individual or group projects, oral or written)
- Scientific drawings
- Experiment reports (oral or written)
- Experiment implementation
- Field work report
- Open problem
- Activities
- Long-term projects
- Observation/Tests/quizzes
- Oral presentations
STEM Resources:
- Dedicated science lab with appropriate materials and supplies
- Equipment such as microscopes, electronic probes, software, etc.
- Field trips to Mercer Slough, Bullitt Center, etc...
- Guest speakers who are experts in their fields (Cardiologist, Environmentalist, Volcanologist, etc.)
- One-week field trip to discover Washington State Geology in 6th grade
- Textbook: Nathan Collection or similar
- Handmade car kits and tools
- Gears kits
- 3D models
- Videos
- 3D modeling software
- 3D model viewer
- Internet
Teachers
M. Nicolas Untz
STEM | Science | Biology | Chemistry
M. Makrham Sammari
STEM | Technology | Chemistry | Physics
