Welcome to the Sixth Grade Science Page
Click on Cosmo to see the course syllabus
Click on Gary for the Week Ahead.
Due to various scheduling conflicts, the science extravaganza must be postponed until June. The final draft of the report is due on May 29th in class. There will be a 10 point penalty for each day the report is late. Remember that the extravaganza project is worth 2 test grades.
Extravaganza first draft is due on Friday, May 1. Click here to see what should be included in your first draft!
There is a quiz tomorrow on static electricity. Use the following website for help. The site does not mention conduction and induction (although it shows them), so be sure to look in your book or in the Cat's nightmare handout or the mind map handout for help on those.
Click on the image to the right to find experiment topics and to learn about
the Science Extravaganza.
Atoms
We are currently focusing on atoms. Students worked on an Element packet while I was out. They found out that atoms are composed of three major subatomic particles called Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons. They learned the mass of each one in Atomic Mass Units, thier charge, and thier location in the atom. We are using this knowledge to help figure out how the Periodic Table is put together.
Click here for the Atom Study Guide
Click here for the Problem and Hypothesis sheet due on Friday, March 6.
Click here for how to write a Problem statement and hypothesis.
Click here for the Element Research Project .
Useful sites for Elements
http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm
Click here for the element research project
Click here for the atom model project.
Click here for the atom model rubric
Phases of Matter and Mixtures
Click here for useful information on mixtures.
Click here for a study guide for Monday January 26 quiz on matter.
Click here to read about the different phases and phase changes. Or you can click here.
Click here to see an interactive video that shows how energy is related to phases. Here is another interactive video.
Click here to see the Necklace Heist packet.
Click here to get the Berkshire Eagle paper requirements.
October activities
September-We have spent several few weeks learning about how scientists perform experiments. Scientists sometimes use something called the scientific method when performing an experiment. The Scientific Method is a step by step approach to running an experiment. We actually used the scientific method when we thought about the antigravity bag trick, tested whirly-birds for General Mills, and licked lollipops for the lollipop lab.
This week we are dropping water on a penny to see how many drops will fit. This is our control. We will change a variable to see if it make a difference in the number of drops that fit.
Controlled experiment-An experiment that compares a test with a variable to a test that did not contain the variable.
Control-experiment that does not contain the variable.
Variable-the factor being tested in the experiment. It should be the one thing that is different in your experiments.
Constants-the factors that stayed the same in both experiments.
Data: recorded observations and measurements
Email me at rsanders@lenoxps.org