Science, Grade 6

Unit 1: Diversity of Living Things

Classifying living things, vertebrates versus invertebrates and their adaptations, Mi'kmaq plant knowledge, and human impact on biodiversity and climate.

• Classifying living things
• Mi'kmaq plant knowledge
• Vertebrates and invertebrates
• Adaptations for survival

• Human impact on biodiversity
• Solutions for climate and net-zero

Unit 2: Solar System

Astronomical phenomena across cultures, tools to observe the solar system, its components, and models of moon phases, eclipses, tides, and seasons.

• Astronomy across cultures
• Tools to observe the solar system

• Components of the solar system
• Modelling phases, eclipses, and tides
• Earth's movement and life's patterns

Unit 3: Electricity and Circuits

Electrical safety, building series and parallel circuits, conductors and insulators, static electricity, and the impacts of energy sources.

• The dangers of electricity
• Series and parallel circuits
• Conductors and insulators

• Static electricity
• Impacts of energy sources
• Indigenous ways of knowing and energy

Unit 4: Flight

Adaptations and mechanisms for flight, the four forces of flight, Bernoulli's principle, and building a flying device.

• Flight in living and non-living things
• The four forces of flight
• Bernoulli's principle and lift
• Building a flying device

Unit 5: Experimentation

Performing an investigation and recording observations, analysing and interpreting data, and communicating results.

• Performing an investigation
• Analysing and interpreting data
• Communicating results