Science, Grade 6

Unit 1: Diversity of Living Things

The characteristics of living things, how humans classify them, vertebrates and invertebrates, structural and behavioural adaptations, and the role of micro-organisms in society.

• What makes something a living thing
• Careers that study living things

• How humans build classification systems
• Five kingdoms and Indigenous ways of knowing

• Sorting animals by backbone
• Comparing animal bodies and behaviours

• Surviving in the short term
• Adapting over the long term

• Observing tiny living things
• How micro-organisms live and break down matter
• Micro-organisms in society

Unit 2: Understanding Electricity

The impacts of electricity use in Saskatchewan, static charge, conductors and insulators, electromagnetism, and simple series and parallel circuits.

• How Saskatchewan makes electricity
• Reducing the impacts of electricity use

• Static electric charge
• Conductors and insulators
• Electromagnets

• What a circuit needs
• Series versus parallel

Unit 3: Principles of Flight

Human fascination with flight and related careers, the four forces acting on flying things, and designing a working prototype of a flying object.

• Flight in nature and invention
• Careers in flight

• Lift against gravity
• Drag
• Thrust

• Building and testing a flying object

Unit 4: Our Solar System

The physical characteristics of the components of the solar system, methods of representing astronomical phenomena such as phases, eclipses, and seasons, and the contributions of space exploration.

• Researching the solar system
• Modelling the solar system to scale

• Modelling sky events
• Cultures and the sky

• Living and working in space
• Weighing space exploration