By the end of 6th Grade, a student will:
Spelling/Language Arts
- Identify and create sentences with dependent clauses
- Create a bibliography using periodicals, books, and reference material
- Compare and contrast similar ideas
- Identify and correctly use the different parts of speech
- Correctly write different types of paragraphs (e.g., time order, explanatory, persuasive, descriptive, compare/contrast, etc.)
- Correctly take notes and create and outline in the process of writing a research paper
Mathematics
- Relate a whole number or decimal to its equivalent expanded notation
- Express large numbers in scientific notation and convert notation to regular decimal notation
- Find the greatest common factor and the least common multiple of two whole numbers
- Round a decimal to any place value
- Estimate and find the sum, difference, quotient, or product of any two decimals
- Solve simple proportion and verbal problems using a proportion
- Express a given percent as hundredths in either fraction or decimal form, and conversely
- Construct line, bar, and circle graphs as appropriate for a given or collected set of date
- Determine the relationship between fractions and decimals, and convert from one to the other
- Find prime and composite numbers; write the prime factorization
- Be able to add, subtract, and divide fractions and mixed numbers
Reading
- Identify stated and inferred cause and effect relationships in stories
- Recognize propaganda and persuasion techniques
- Recognize author’s point of view and purpose
- Use the index as a location, and key words to main topic, subtopics, cross-reference
- Correctly summarize a reading selection
- Draw conclusions and predict outcomes from fiction and nonfiction selections
- Identify and use literary techniques – foreshadowing, flashback, imagery, mood, and tone, characterization, etc.
- Identify and use context clues to determine word meanings
Science
- Use insect cards or similar to practice using the laws of genetics as they apply to dominant and recessive characteristics. Distinguish between a hybrid and a mutant
- Use the cell model to explain the activities of cells (life process, structure, reproduction)
- Analyze a given community (pond, woods, field) and give examples of producers, consumers, and decomposers
- Compare transpiration and respiration in animals of varying complexity
- Identify differences between mineral and rock and different types of rocks
Social Studies
- Calculate time changes between time zones
- Explain how elevation affects climate
- Explain how a country’s industrial and manufacturing centers are based on the location of their natural resources
- Describe the modern day roles of the countries of the Western Hemisphere in today’s world (political, economical, cultural, etc.)
- Identify parallels and meridians
- Use political, transit, relief, climate, resource, population and landmark maps