Grade 6 Science Units

Explore Grade 6 Science unit plans with standards-aligned lessons that build Earth science knowledge, inquiry skills, and real-world STEM understanding.

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Unit Plan 36 (Grade 6 Science): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Grade 6 capstone unit where students synthesize space, Earth systems, hazards, climate, and engineering design into a public expo with models, data, and solutions.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 6 Science): Stewardship & Global Citizenship

Grade 6 unit where students design monitoring plans, build evidence-based arguments, and create stewardship action briefs to reduce human impacts as global citizens.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 6 Science): Engineering Climate Solutions

Grade 6 climate engineering unit: Students use evidence to define climate challenges, build and test mitigation or adaptation prototypes, and improve designs with data.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 6 Science): Technology & Environmental Monitoring

Environmental monitoring design unit for Grade 6: Students engineer, test, and compare tools that track and reduce human impacts on water, air, soil, or noise.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 6 Science): Sustainability & Resource Management

Communities monitor, minimize, and manage environmental impacts by using evidence-based strategies and evaluating design solutions to protect water, land, and air.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 6 Science): Earth Systems Interactions

Students model how Earth’s spheres interact through rock and water cycles, weather systems, and global circulation to explain interconnected Earth processes.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 6 Science): Global Climate Change Factors

Students examine climate data, identify natural and human factors affecting global temperatures, and ask clarifying questions to deepen evidence-based climate understanding.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 6 Science): Human Impacts on Earth

Students analyze human impacts on air, water, land, and ecosystems, then design monitoring methods and solutions to minimize environmental harm.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 6 Science): Natural Resources & Human Settlements

Explain how natural resource distribution shapes human settlements, population growth, and land use patterns using maps, data, and scientific reasoning.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 6 Science): Weather & Climate — Quarter Synthesis

Show mastery of water cycle, weather, and climate by creating models, data displays, and engineering reflections that connect Earth systems and design.

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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.