6th Grade Science-Period 1, Period 2, Period 3, Period 6 Assignments

This week will be a choice week again. This is our last week of lessons and the choices will cover a variety of topics. You must choose 2 options and email pictures/essays/google slides/etc. to [email protected]!!!

REMEMBER 2 OPTIONS!!! If you are missing work from stemscope, please complete those assignments or choose extra options and that work will count for your missing assignments.

Here are your choices. Have fun!!!
1. Create 3 google slides. Each slide is a topic we have covered this year in class. On each slide describe why you enjoyed this topic and what was cool about it. Also, include pictures.

2. Persuasive essay - Write a one page paper on your favorite scientist. Begin by choosing 3 attributes that your scientist possess. Make a list of each attribute and give an example from their life's work in science. These reasons will form the main body of your essay. Now all you need to do is add an introduction that explains why you chose that scientist. Your last paragraph is the conclusion, where you wrap up your letter and restate why you chose your scientist.

3. Write a rap or song about a human body system, its parts, and its functions.

4. Create something that floats from items around your house. Send a picture along with a list of items you used to create your boat.

5. Create a kite or parachute (small model) from items around your house. Send a video or picture of your trying to fly your kite or releasing your parachute. Also, send a list of items you used to create your kite or parachute.

6. Watch the local weather and create a weather map or weather predictions for the next week.

7. Chart or draw the night sky (constellations).

8. Identify 5 insects around your house. Send pictures of the insects and their function.

9. Identify 5 plants and/or trees around your house. Send pictures of the plants/trees and their describe their function.

10. Clean a flower bed around your house. Send a before and after picture.

This week you have a choice on your assignment. Complete one of the following choices. You may complete more than one choice if you have missing work. Work other than stemscope must have a picture sent and questions answered to [email protected] or [email protected]
Here are your choices. Have fun!!!
1. Stemscope - 3 worksheets (Content Connections Video - Space Travel, Reading Science A, Progress Monitoring Assessment). You must complete all 3 to get credit for the week.

2. Family Movie Night - Watch the movie Apollo 13. Answer the questions from the movie on the worksheet below. Send a picture of the worksheet or email the answers to your teacher.

3. JFK's Speech - We Choose to go to the Moon. Go to youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQ) and listen to the speech. Then answer the questions from the worksheet below. Send a picture of the worksheet or email the answers to your teacher.

4. Draw or make a model rocket using only materials at your house. I do not want you making a rocket that flies. Just a model. Take a picture and email a description of how you made the rocket and what materials you used. Please ask your parents for permission before using any materials from around your house.

Check out this link. It has some fun games to play to learn about the solar system!!! You will login with the same info as you do to log into chromebooks.

If you do not understand a question, please message us.

***For the crossword puzzels, click on the T or the paintbrush and then click in the box to mark your letter.***

Log into stemscope - first intial and then last name. Your passcode is your cafeteria number.

For #5 - click on the T or the paint brush above the sun picture. Then click in the box you want to label. You should be able to then type or write the word in the box.

Trying something different for our lesson quizzes this week. I have attached a copy of the Unit 8 Lesson 3 lesson to help with the quiz.
Click on the formative link. You will login with your google account (same as you use for your chromebook). For example: username/email: [email protected] password: bord1111 (the 4 digits are your cafeteria number).

If you have questions on the quiz, please ask.

Hey guys, here are some helpful hints when completing your lesson 2 quiz. Keep working hard and if you have any questions on the quiz, please email me. Don't forget to watch the digital lesson and use the online book as a resource.

1. p. 471 - Kepler has 3 laws of planetary motion. The first law (ellipse), placed the sun at one of the foci of the ellipse and that planets orbit the sun in a deformed circle called a ellipse.
The second law (speed) found that at a planet's aphelion, the orbit speed is slower and at it's perihelion, the planet is moving faster. The third law (time) the farther a planet is away from the sun, the longer it takes to orbit the sun.

2. p. 471 - Refer to Kepler's 1st law of planetary motion.

3. p. 474 - Centripetal force is a inward force that causes an object to move in a circular path.

4. p. 475 - Read the section about solar nebulas (which is a inward pull of gravity in balanced by the outward push of gas pressure in the clouds. Scientists think that an outside force caused the solar nebula to compress and then to contract under its own gravity.

5. p. 473 - Look at the sample problems at the bottom of the page to help solve this problem. M=Mass, d=distance, and F= force of gravity exerted by 2 bodies.
Newton's law of universal gravitation says that the force of gravity (1.) increases as the mass of the objects and (2.) decreases as the distance between the objects increase.

3 Stemscope Assignments for the week -
Stemscopedia
Clozeing In On Science
Reading Science A

I have had some questions about the lesson 1 quiz. Please read this before completing the quiz on think central. Once you have completed the quiz, I will post the grade.

1. Concentrate on the 2 early models and beliefs: geocentric model and the heliocentric model.
Geocentric model - Earth is the center and all the other planets including the sun rotate around it
Heliocentric model - Earth and the other planets orbit the sun

2. A parallax - apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations. The closer a star is, the larger their parallax will be. See the attached picture. AU is known as Astronomical Unit. It is a type of measurement.

3. Aristotle thought Earth was the center of all things. His model placed different objects moving in small and large spheres in circles.

4. Galileo used a powerful telescope to view celestial objects. He observed the moons orbiting Jupiter. These moons are known as Galilean satellites. His observations showed that Earth was not the only object that could be orbited.

5. Copernicus figured out what causes the year and seasons on Earth.
Earth's rotation on its axis causes day and night
Earth's revolution around the sun causes the year and seasons

Please keep asking questions. I know this is all different trying to do this at home.