All Science Units

Explore the full collection of PreK–8 Science unit plans featuring engaging, standards-aligned lessons that build curiosity, inquiry skills, and real-world understanding.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 6 Science): Engineering Weather Solutions

Design, test, and improve engineering solutions to reduce storm impacts or enhance forecasting using data, fair tests, and iterative models.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 6 Science): Weather Data—Graphs & Models

Analyze weather datasets and maps to spot patterns, explain air mass and front interactions, and connect local weather changes to global circulation systems.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 6 Science): Climate Zones & Global Patterns

Explain global climate zones by linking atmospheric and oceanic circulation with latitude, ocean currents, and geography to show long-term weather patterns.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 6 Science): Heat Transfer & Atmosphere Circulation

Global winds and ocean currents form from unequal heating and Earth’s rotation—students model circulation patterns to explain weather and climate connections.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 6 Science): Weather Mapping & Forecasting

Analyze weather maps, fronts, and pressure systems to explain air mass interactions, identify severe weather patterns, and create evidence-based short-term forecasts.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 6 Science): Air Masses & Weather Patterns

Collect and analyze weather data to show how interacting air masses and fronts cause temperature shifts, precipitation, wind changes, and daily weather patterns.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 6 Science): Water in Earth’s Systems

Explain how energy and gravity move water through oceans, glaciers, and groundwater as part of the water cycle to support resources and manage hazards.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 6 Science): The Water Cycle

Model how water moves through Earth’s systems—driven by Sun energy and gravity—through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and storage.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 6 Science): Earth Processes — Quarter Synthesis

Synthesize rock cycle, plate tectonics, and hazard data to explain Earth’s changing systems, forecast risks, and design engineering solutions to reduce impacts.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 6 Science): Engineering for Natural Hazards

Design and test engineering solutions that reduce natural hazard impacts, using hazard data, criteria, and constraints to build, evaluate, and improve prototypes.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 6 Science): Natural Hazard Forecasting

Analyze hazard maps to forecast where earthquakes, volcanoes, and storms are most likely, and suggest mitigation strategies to reduce community risk.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 6 Science): Sediments, Fossils & Earth’s History

Use sediments, sedimentary rocks, and fossils to reveal past environments and show how rock layers record Earth’s changes over long time and space scales.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 6 Science): Weathering & Erosion

Explain how weathering, erosion, and deposition shape landforms over different time and space scales through hands-on models and evidence-based learning.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 6 Science): Mapping Natural Hazards

Analyze global hazard patterns from earthquakes, volcanoes, and storms to forecast higher-risk regions and suggest simple mitigation strategies to reduce impact.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 6 Science): Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Mountains

Grade 6 unit linking earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain-building to plate boundaries, using hazard maps and data to forecast where future risks are highest.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade 6 Science): Plate Tectonics & Earth’s Internal Heat

Grade 6 unit explaining how Earth’s internal heat drives plate motion, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and landforms that reshape the surface at different scales.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 6 Science): The Rock Cycle

Grade 6 unit modeling how Earth’s materials cycle through igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, driven by internal heat, the Sun, and gravity over time.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 6 Science): Space Systems — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 6 unit modeling celestial motions, gravity-driven orbits, and solar system scale, then applying science to an engineering design challenge in space systems.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 6 Science): Engineering Space Missions

Grade 6 unit where students define space mission design problems, set criteria and constraints, brainstorm solutions, and evaluate designs for feasibility.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 6 Science): Stars, Galaxies & the Universe

Grade 6 unit where students analyze star brightness and distance, model the Milky Way’s structure and gravity, and explore our place in the universe.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 6 Science): Scale of the Solar System

Grade 6 unit using data, graphs, and scale models to compare planet sizes and distances, building accurate understanding of solar system scale and spacing.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 6 Science): Gravity & Orbits

Grade 6 unit modeling how gravity and forward motion create orbits, explaining how gravity shapes the motion of planets, moons, and satellites in the solar system.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 6 Science): Eclipses & Seasons

Grade 6 unit using Earth–Sun–Moon models to explain seasons from Earth’s tilt and orbit, and rare solar/lunar eclipses from precise alignment.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 6 Science): Phases of the Moon

Grade 6 unit modeling the lunar cycle: students explain Moon phases as views of the lit half during its orbit, naming and sequencing phases in a monthly pattern.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 6 Science): Earth–Sun–Moon Basics

Grade 6 unit using Earth–Sun–Moon models to explain rotation, day/night, Sun’s apparent motion, and shadow patterns as foundations for phases and seasons.