This is a comprehensive “6th & 7th grade Science” video course that covers all of the content that students need to successfully complete 6th & 7th grade science. The course has an emphasis on discovery learning and critical thinking skills. It is covers the requirements of the Common Core and also goes beyond by preparing students for the real-world. It is a full year's worth.
The course includes:
- A full year's worth of science for 6th & 7th graders!
- 11 Units
- 119 video lessons: Part 1: 63 videos and Part 2: 56 videos
- 119 short review on-line quizzes for each lesson with answer keys
- Over 60 additional exams with answer keys
- 48 worksheet review videos (I review each question/problem one by one) and answer keys for each lesson
- Over 60 investigations, demonstrations and projects
- Over 10 Station Labs of unit concepts that students: Explore, Illustrate, Read, Watch, Organize, Write, Research, and Assess with answer keys for each station.
- Lesson Documents: key vocabulary, word walls, worksheets, labs, puzzles, student projects, PowerPoints, assessments, picture/diagrams, and homework.
- Uses a Smartboard and demonstrations in the lessons to better illustrate the lessons and to provide opportunities for hands on learning
- Over 36 hours of video-lessons!
Course Goals: After completing this course students will have a better grasp on how the world works around them and how many things in our world are connected. Students will have a better appreciation for the environment, our earth, and our interdependence with those different facets of our world. Finally, the ultimate goal is to see that science is an important and interesting area of study and you can have fun learning it as well!
Target Audience: This video-course is primarily intended for students entering the 6th and 7th grade who have had previous science study. This is typically around age 10 or older. The course could also be used as a review for older students who might need extra time with the course topics.
Course Requirements: Students taking this course should have a good understanding of the science topics covered in grade 5.
COURSE TOPICS
Unit 1: Science and Safety Procedures
Lessons
Identify science expectations
Identify safe science practices
Set up Interactive Student Notebook
Incorporate Rules of a Scientist
Demonstrate safe practices while conducting experiments
Analyze safe practices and the infractions of unsafe practices
Demonstrate knowledge of how to operate emergency safety equipment
Explain how to use science equipment
Demonstrate knowledge of science safety and procedures
Unit 2: Physical Properties of Matter
Lessons
Define metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
Identify properties of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
Observe and identify physical properties of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
Compare metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
Classify objects as metals, nonmetals, and metalloids base off of their physical properties
Demonstrate the properties of metal, nonmetals, and metalloids
Determine if a sample is a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid by observing physical properties
Identify the physical properties of minerals
Test and examine minerals to determine the physical properties
Test the concepts of density
Identify the density of objects
Compare and calculate the densities of candy bars
Determine how density can be used to identify an unknown substance
Practice procedures for calculating density
Demonstrate how to find the volume of a substance or object
Calculate the density of a set of unknown mineral samples and organize the data collected
Unit 3: Elements
Lessons
Explore elements
Represent elements by their chemical symbols
Understand that an element is a pure substance
Research the properties of different elements
Give examples and non-examples of elements
Classify substances as elements or not
Explore elements that make up the solid Earth, living matter, oceans, and the atmosphere
Identify the major elements that make up life
Create a visual that identifies which elements make up the Earth, living matter, oceans, and the atmosphere
Unit 4: Compounds
Lessons
Describe a compound
Explain the differences between elements and compounds
Examine the evidence of a chemical change
Differentiate between a physical and chemical change
Collect evidence of a chemical change
Observe the evidence that a chemical change took place
Summarize the possible evidence of a chemical change involving elements and compounds
Unit 5: Energy Resources
Lessons
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of renewable resources
Explore the uses, advantages, and disadvantages of renewable resources
Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy resources
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of nonrenewable resources
Explore the uses, advantages, and disadvantages of nonrenewable resources
Analyze and debate the advantages and disadvantages of using different energy resources
Design a plan to manage energy resources
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of using energy resources
Unit 6: Conservation of Energy
Lessons
Identify thermal energy that can be transferred
Recognize how thermal energy transfers through conduction, convection, and radiation
Define conduction, convection, and radiation using illustrations
Investigate methods of thermal energy transfer
Interpret how thermal energy transfers
Research methods of thermal energy transfer
Develop a presentation describing the transfer of thermal energy
Identify and describe the transfer of energy through a wind turbine
Relate the transfer of energy to everyday items
Demonstrate knowledge of energy transfer from source to public use
Use a flow chart to demonstrate energy transformations
Unit 7: Force and Motion
Lessons
Identify key vocabulary for force in motion
Introduction to simple machines
Work with levers to identify which class of lever is being used
Introduction to 5 additional simple machines
Define unbalanced and balanced forces
Explore simple machines and how they make work easier
Investigate pulley systems
Investigate how inclined planes work
Investigate how all six simple machines work and where they can be found
Analyze data and describe what is happening in relation to motion
Demonstrate knowledge of simple machines
Recognize vocabulary and formula to calculate speed
Investigate and explain how inclined planes and pulleys change the amount of force needed to move objects
Demonstrate understanding of force and motion
Explore force and motion through lab stations
Unit 8: Solar System and Exploration
Lessons
Identify properties, location, and movement of the Sun
Describe the physical properties, location, and movement of planets
Describe the physical properties, location, and movement of the Galilean Moons
Describe the physical properties, location, and movement of comets
Explore the history of space exploration
Compare and describe objects in our solar system
Construct a scale model of the sun and planets in the solar system
Identify the effects of gravity
Demonstrate the understanding of the planets and Galilean moons
Predict the effects of gravity between the objects in our solar system
Create a model of the solar system
Unit 9: Earth Materials
Lessons
Identify the layers of the Earth
Create the Earth’s layers
Explore the Earth’s layers
Demonstrate knowledge of the planets
Demonstrate understanding of the Earth’s layers
Build a model to label and illustrate the structural layers of the Earth
Identify the characteristics of sedimentary rocks
Describe metamorphic rock and how it is formed
Describe igneous rocks and how they form
Observe the effects of weathering
Demonstrate knowledge of the Rock Cycle
Unit 10: Plate Tectonics
Lessons
Examine plate boundaries
Identify major plates
Explain tectonic plate movement
Demonstrate understanding of plate movement
Explore tectonic plates
Identify tectonic plates
Demonstrate knowledge of plates and plate movement
Understand geological events that are affected by plate tectonics
Use academic vocabulary to identify plate movement and events
Identify major geological events caused by plate tectonics
Demonstrate understanding of plate tectonics
Unit 11: Taxonomic Groups
Lessons
Identify cells
Identify characteristics of organisms
Classify organisms
Understand cell theory
Identify prokaryotic an eukaryotes cells and the nucleus
Understand unicellular and multicellular
Understand autotroph and heterotroph
