{"id":421,"date":"2014-02-22T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T11:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:55:36","slug":"sixth-grade-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/curriculum\/sixth-grade-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Grade Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Social Studies <\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b><i>Ancient Civilizations<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>World History<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compare ancient civilizations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Persian) in terms of:\n<ul>\n<li>The development of social, political, and economic patterns<\/li>\n<li>The development of religious traditions<\/li>\n<li>The development of language and writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe, analyze, and evaluate the history of ancient civilizations in terms of their impact on:\n<ul>\n<li>The contributions of philosophers<\/li>\n<li>The contributions of scientists, mathematicians, inventors<\/li>\n<li>The contributions of artists, architects, writers<\/li>\n<li>The contributions of history, language, religious institutions, law, and government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyze the reasons for the collapse of ancient civilizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Civics\/Government<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe and compare the different government structures and powers in ancient civilizations and western civilization.<\/li>\n<li>Describe contributions of leaders (Menes, Alexander the Great).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><b><i>Economics\/Goods and Services<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify natural and human resources that shaped the development of civilizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Geography<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locate and identify by name the major countries in each region and the major rivers, mountain ranges, and surrounding bodies of water.<\/li>\n<li>Describe how natural geographic features affected the development of ancient civilizations and Western Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<b>Math<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand patterns, relations, and functions.<\/li>\n<li>Represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules.<\/li>\n<li>Relate and compare different forms of representation for a relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Identify functions as linear or nonlinear and contrast their properties from tables, graphs, or equations.<\/li>\n<li>Represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols.<\/li>\n<li>Develop an initial conceptual understanding of different uses of variables.<\/li>\n<li>Explore relationships between symbolic expressions and graphs of lines, paying particular attention to the meaning of intercept and slope.<\/li>\n<li>Use symbolic algebra to represent situations and to solve problems, especially those that involve linear relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize and generate equivalent forms for simple algebraic expressions and solve linear equations.<\/li>\n<li>Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Model and solve contextualized problems using various representations, such as graphs, tables, and equations.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze change in various contexts.<\/li>\n<li>Use graphs to analyze the nature of changes in quantities in linear relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems.<\/li>\n<li>Use coordinate geometry to represent and examine the properties of geometric shapes.<\/li>\n<li>Use coordinate geometry to examine special geometric shapes, such as regular polygons or those with pairs of parallel or perpendicular sides.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Precisely describe, classify, and understand relationships among types of two- and three-dimensional objects using their defining properties.<\/li>\n<li>Understand relationships among the angles, side lengths, perimeters, areas, and volumes of similar objects.<\/li>\n<li>Create and critique inductive and deductive arguments concerning geometric ideas and relationships, such as congruence, similarity, and the Pythagorean relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations.<\/li>\n<li>Describe sizes, positions, and orientations of shapes under informal transformations such as flips, turns, slides, and scaling.<\/li>\n<li>Examine the congruence, similarity, and line or rotational symmetry of objects using transformations.<\/li>\n<li>Use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems.<\/li>\n<li>Draw geometric objects with specified properties, such as side lengths or angle measures.<\/li>\n<li>Use two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects to visualize and solve problems such as those involving surface area and volume.<\/li>\n<li>Use visual tools such as networks to represent and solve problems.<\/li>\n<li>Use geometric models to represent and explain numerical and algebraic relationships<\/li>\n<li>Recognize and apply geometric ideas and relationships in areas outside the mathematics classroom, such as art, science, and everyday life.<\/li>\n<li>Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement.<\/li>\n<li>Understand both metric and customary systems of measurement.<\/li>\n<li>Understand relationships among units and convert from one unit to another within the same system.<\/li>\n<li>Understand, select, and use units of appropriate size and type to measure angles, perimeter, area, surface area, and volume.<\/li>\n<li>Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements.<\/li>\n<li>Use common benchmarks to select appropriate methods for estimating measurements.<\/li>\n<li>Select and apply techniques and tools to accurately find length, area, volume, and angle measures to appropriate levels of precision.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and use formulas to determine the circumference of circles and the area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, and circles and develop strategies to find the area of more-complex shapes.<\/li>\n<li>Develop strategies to determine the surface area and volume of selected prisms, pyramids, and cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>Solve problems involving scale factors, using ratio and proportion.<\/li>\n<li>Solve simple problems involving rates and derived measurements for such attributes as velocity and density.<\/li>\n<li>Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them.<\/li>\n<li>Formulate questions, design studies, and collect data about a characteristic shared by two populations or different characteristics within one population.<\/li>\n<li>Select, create, and use appropriate graphical representations of data, including histograms, box plots, and scatter plots.<\/li>\n<li>Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data.<\/li>\n<li>Find, use, and interpret measures of center and spread, including mean and interquartile range.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss and understand the correspondence between data sets and their graphical representations, especially histograms, stem-and-leaf plots, box plots, and scatter plots.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data.<\/li>\n<li>Use observations about differences between two or more samples to make conjectures about the populations from which the samples were taken.<\/li>\n<li>Make conjectures about possible relationships between two characteristics of a sample on the basis of scatter plots of the data and approximate lines of fit.<\/li>\n<li>Use conjectures to formulate new questions and plan new studies to answer them.<\/li>\n<li>Understand and apply basic concepts of probability.<\/li>\n<li>Understand and use appropriate terminology to describe complementary and mutually exclusive events.<\/li>\n<li>Use proportionality and a basic understanding of probability to make and test conjectures about the results of experiments and simulations.<\/li>\n<li>Compute probabilities for simple compound events, using such methods as organized lists, tree diagrams, and area models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0Science<\/h2>\n<p>Unifying concepts and processes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain common cycles in Earth systems (e.g., tides, movements of celestial objects, predator-prey populations, life cycle, the rock cycle).<\/li>\n<li>Understand that cycles can be described in terms of cycle length or frequency.<\/li>\n<li>Understand that any system is usually connected to other systems, thus becoming a subset of a larger system. A change in one system may cause a change in other systems.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze a variety of systems in terms of inputs and outputs.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize that energy is often an input or an output in a system, and analyze the effect on the system of changing the amount of energy coming in or going out.<\/li>\n<li>Predict the effect of changing a component of a simple system such as a food web.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze diagrams of rock layers to determine the order in which they were deposited.<\/li>\n<li>Explain how the layers in which fossils have been found indicate their relative age.<\/li>\n<li>Compare the shape of coastlines of continents and other evidence to infer the movement of crustal plates.<\/li>\n<li>Relate modern occurrences such as earthquakes, volcanoes, continental movement detected by satellites and floods to historical evidence of how Earth has changed.<\/li>\n<li>Identify and describe the relationship between soil type and the vegetation it will support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Scientific Inquiry<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask focused questions about objects, organisms, and events that can be answered through investigation.<\/li>\n<li>Identify variables that influence a situation and can be controlled.<\/li>\n<li>Describe and conduct a controlled experiment.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize a set of procedures which will provide data to address the question or hypothesis in question.<\/li>\n<li>Gather, record, and interpret data.<\/li>\n<li>Organize data to produce a report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Earth and Space Science<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize the Earth is layered with a lithosphere, a hot convecting mantle, and a dense metallic core.<\/li>\n<li>Understand that the lithosphere plates move at centimeters per year in response to movement in the mantle (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions).<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between constructive (crustal\u00a0deformation, volcanic eruptions) and destructive (weathering and erosion) forces in land formation.<\/li>\n<li>Discriminate between steps in the rock cycle, types of rock formed (sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous) and consequent changes to Earth\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>Identify factors affecting water flow, soil erosion, and deposition.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the evidence that supports the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics.<\/li>\n<li>Trace a drop of water through the water cycle and be able to explain the process.<\/li>\n<li>Know that clouds form by the condensation of water vapor, affect weather and climate.<\/li>\n<li>Define factors that cause or affect weather patterns.<\/li>\n<li>Identify examples of evaporation and condensation in the students\u2019 environment.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the effect of oceans on temperature and precipitation.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish among surface water, atmospheric water, and ground water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Life Science<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify populations of organisms within an ecosystem by the function they serve (i.e., producer, consumer, or decomposer) and how they interact.<\/li>\n<li>Describe conditions that might cause a species to become endangered or extinct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Studies Ancient Civilizations World History Compare ancient civilizations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Persian) in terms of: The development &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/2939"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}