Grade 6
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Math
Essential Questions/Big Ideas:
• What is the relationship between ratios
and fractions?’
• What is the meaning of ratio, how can
it be expressed, and reduced?
• What is the unit rate of …? (cups of
flour to sugar, gallons of gas to miles,
miles traveled per hour, price per
ounce)
• What are ratios and proportions and
why do we use them?
• What are relationships among given
ratios?
• What do ordered pairs represent on a
coordinate plane?
• What is the best bargain/better buy?
• How long will it take to complete a
job given a ration of previous job? (4
lawns are moved in 7 hours, how
many lawns can be mowed in 35
hours?)
• What is the saying for conversions of
the metric system and the standard
measurement system?
• How would you solve conversions of
centimeters to inches and kilometers
to miles?
• What percentage of sixth grades are in
_____ homeroom?
• What is the conversion process used to
calculate 7/5 into a percent?
• What in the world are negative
numbers and how do we use them?
• How can temperature be represented
Areas for Integration
Please identify the subjects above each
area for integration listed.
Math/ELA
Using Upfront, current events magazine on
the annually published World issue,
students, working in groups by continents
charted and graphed the median age,
income and life expectancy. After reading
“Phantom Tollbooth”, in which fantastical
Princesses of Rhyme and Reason divide
their kingdoms, students examine the
everyday correlation of math and words in
their own everyday life.
Math/Science
Science/Social Studies
Science/ELA
Through Channel One News, students have
correlated the recorded changes in the
Earth’s temperature and predict the effects
on various countries in the world including
the US. additionally they compared the
science in some of our science fiction storie
by Asimov, Bradbury, and others in the
literature anthology.
Science
Essential Questions/Big Ideas
What are the characteristics of a wave? How are waves created? What is sound? What is light? What is a seismic wave? How are light, sound and the wave energy from earthquakes related? What are the characteristics of a transverse and longitudinal waves similar? How do they differ? What are the layers of the Earth? What is the theory of plate tectonics? How does the rock cycle create different rock types, and how is this related to the soil surrounding the rocks? Why is it important to monitor the quality of our soil as well as our water and air? Grade 6
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on a number line?
• How does paying bills and receiving
checks utilize a number line?
• Can I find the opposite of any given
number?
• What do opposite signs represent on a
number?
• What are the quadrants of the
coordinate plane system and how are
ordered pairs signs related to the
quadrants?
• What is the meaning to absolute
value?
• Why are negative integers the opposite
of positive integers?
• Where in the real world are negative
integers and values used?
• What is the distance between points
Aand B?
• What are the signs for X and Y in each
quadrant?
• Define and determine absolute value
between two points.
• Graph coordinates for polygons and
find missing vertices based on
properties of triangles and
quadrilaterals.
ELA
Essential Questions/Big Ideas:
How does using textual evidence make the claim or argument stronger? Literary text analysis needs to be supported by explicit information in the text, as well as inferences the reader draws from the text. How do readers use the text to support their critical understanding/analysis of a text? Areas for Integration
Social Studies
Essential Questions/Big Ideas
Topics: Ancient Greece & Rome
● Governmental structure is often determined
by the values and beliefs of a society.
● The role of government may be altered in
response to social and economic conditions.
● Citizens have certain roles and responsibilities
in a society
Grade 6
Informational text analysis needs to be supported by explicit information in the text, as well as inferences the reader draws from the text. Essential Questions/Big Ideas: How do the details in a text support the theme or central idea of a text? How can a reader use his or her understanding of theme or central idea to summarize a text objectively? Literary texts contain themes or central ideas that must be derived through analysis of key details. In order to create an objective summary of the text, free from personal opinions and judgments, readers must consider the theme or central idea and supporting details. How do the details in a text support the central idea of a text? How can a reader use his or her understanding of central idea to summarize a text objectively? Informational texts contain central ideas that must be derived through analysis of particular details. In order to create an objective summary of the text, free from personal opinions and judgments, readers must consider the central idea and supporting details. How do structural components contribute to to the overall structure of a text? How do they develop the theme, setting, or plot? A text is intentionally organized to contribute to its meaning. How do the structural components of an informational text contribute to the development of a text's meaning? GFMS
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● The values and beliefs of a civilization, society
or region can be expressed through art, dance,
music, literature and architecture
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The structure of a text contributes to the overall meaning of the text by organizing the way that ideas are developed. How can examples, anecdotes, or other text features deepen readers' understanding of a topic? Readers gain deeper understanding when authors include text features, examples, and anecdotes to explain their topic.
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