Grade Six

Curriculum Outcomes involved:

• Physical Science: Electricity
  • Investigating Static Electricity
    • Record observations while exploring and solving static electricity challenges
    • Suggest possible explanations for variations in the results of investigations involving static electricity
    • Use the terms attraction, repulsion, electrons, positive charge, and negative charge in meaningful contexts while exploring static electricity
  • Sources of Electricity
  • Describe how knowledge that magnets can pricude electric current led to the invention of electrical generators
  • Identify and investigate various methods of generating electricity and describe some ways in which these methods affect the environment

• Physical Science: Flight
  • Drag
    • Rephrase questions about drag in a testable form then carry out procedures, make and record observations to test the performance of a flying device
    • Describe and demonstrate methods for altering drag in flying devices
  • Lift and Bernoulli's Principle
  • Identify situations which involve Bernoulli's Principle
  • Describe how aerodynamic research using wind tunnels and/or computers can contribute to new airplane designs
  • Thrust and Propulsion
  • Describe and demonstrate the means of propulsion for flying devices
  • Describe and justify the differences in design between aircraft and spacecraft

• Earth and Space Science: Space
  • Relative Positions an Motions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun
    • Observe and explain how the relative position of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun are responsible for the Moon's phases, eclipses, and tides
  • Stars and Constellations
  • Identify constellations from diagrams, pictures, and/or representations of the night sky

Demonstrations that may apply to your lesson plans:

• Physical Science: Electricity
  • Investigating Static Electricity
    • Pith Balls
    • Van de Graaff Sparks
    • Hair Raising
  • Sources of Electricity
    • Induced Current
   

• Physical Science: Flight
  • Drag
    • Double Ball Drop
    • Ball & Feather
  • Lift and Bernoulli's Principle
    • Bernoulli's Floating Ball
  • Thrust and Propulsion
    • Air Cannon
    • Water Rocket

• Earth and Space Science: Space
  • Relative Positions an Motions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun
    • Lunar Eclipse
  • Stars and Constellations
    • Twinkling Stars

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