Description
Core Skills Science series provides students with clear explanations of scientific concepts. Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards* Disciplinary Core Ideas, Core Skills Science teaches students science basics for grades 1–8 through reading comprehension activities, vocabulary practice, and critical-thinking activities.
The Core Skills Science series not only challenges students to understand what they have read, but it also teaches students to use models, to classify information, and to develop scientific inquiry skills.
Core Skills Science: Grade 6 covers the following topics:
LIFE SCIENCE
• Classifying Organisms
• Classifying Plants
• Classifying Animals
• Cells
• Oxygen and Carbon
• Dioxide Cycle
• Water Cycle
• Ecosystems
• Species and Population Growth
EARTH SCIENCE
• Rocks
• Tectonic Plates
• Earth’s History
• Energy and Fossil Fuels
• Weather and Storms
• The Sun
• Eclipses
• Tides
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
• Building Blocks of Matter
• Physical Change
• Chemical Change
• Chemical Reactions
• Energy
• Electromagnetism
• Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration
• Newton’s Laws
GRADE LEVEL: 6
PAGES: 132
FILE TYPE: PDF