6th Grade Science Curriculum Unit Science Inquiry



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Peggy Holland-Grantham

6th Grade Science Curriculum Unit

Science Inquiry

Strand: Inquiry/Safety
Clarifying Objective:

Science as Inquiry
Weeks:1 - 3







Essential Standard

Science Inquiry

Clarifying Objectives

Lab Process Skills

Essential Questions

Knowledge/Skills


How do students remain safe in the laboratory environment?
What is the proper way to use and care for lab equipment?
How should students use and apply the scientific method?


Students will :

  • Know the correct procedures for setting up, breaking down labs and the correct tools to use.

  • Understand the importance of following the proper lab safety procedures.

  • Know how to implement the scientific method.

  • Know the proper way to complete a lab report.

  • Know proper scientific terminology and process skills.

Learning Progressions

How do students safely apply the scientific method?

  • Lab safety contract with parent and student signatures.

  • Demonstrate comprehension of lab safety rules.

  • Apply the scientific method.

  • Scientific Method Foldable.

  • Properly use of lab equipment.

  • Demonstrate safe lab practices.

*By the end of the year, students should be able to design their own experiment to answer questions and solve problems. Learning experimental design is an ongoing process.

Assessments/Probes

Formative Assessment:

Teacher made quiz

Lab of teacher’s choice

Students will create an Alice World on either Lab Safety or the Scientific Method.




Summative Assessment:

Ongoing through-out the year as students apply proper safety practices and problem solving skills.

Teacher Made Assessments (derived from information delivered)


Vocabulary

List of lab equipment appropriate for lab.
Terms from the lab safety contract.
Units of the metric system.
(TERMS TO BE USED AS VOCAB)

  • Hypothesis

  • Qualitative Observation

  • Quantitative Observation

  • Procedure

  • Independent variable

  • Dependent variable

  • Constant

  • Inference

  • Conclusion

  • Purpose

  • Data/Results

Resources

Lab Safety Contract (http://www.flinnsci.com/media/396480/safety_contract_ms.pdf)

Mr. Lee’s Scientific Method Rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8lSmIo4Ac)

Study Jams (http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/scientific-inquiry/scientific-methods.htm)

Brainpop (http://www.brainpop.com/science/scientificinquiry/scientificmethod/)

Lab Safety Rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJG0ir9nDtc)

Lab equipment and metric measure tools

SMART Board and other SMART equipment

Alice Software (www.alice.org)

Computer Lab or COW (Computer Lab on Wheels) Access


Vertical Alignment

Ongoing



Scientific Method Flow Chart
Most of us you a loose form of the scientific method to solve everyday problems. For each of the problems and observations below, develop a hypothesis to explain what’s happening. Then describe how you might test your theory with a simple experiment.

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Problem

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Observation

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Hypothesis

(If…,then statement)

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Experiment

Your cat rejects a can of tuna cat food.

She ate the can of chicken flavored food you feed her last night, and the beef from the night before.







Your bedroom air conditioner blows very cold air at night, but only cool air during the day.

Your bedroom gets lots of direct sunlight all day long.







You’re talking on your cell phone in your bedroom, when suddenly the reception goes bad for a minute.

Just before the reception clears up, you hear the microwave beep in the kitchen.







Order of Events
Unscramble the letters to identify which steps of the scientific method each statement represents. Then number the statements in chronological order, 1-7.

_____ We bought a clock of unsliced cheese on the same day, and it isn’t moldy at all.



ITVBARNOESO ___________________________

_____ I think that sliced cheese gets moldy faster because people touch it more.

PSHEYTSHIO _____________________________

_____ After five days, both sets of cheese that I touched are moldy. Both sets of cheese that I left alone have no mold.

SRUETL __________________________________

_____ I keep four separate sets of cheese in the refrigerator; five slices that I touch once a day; five slices that I leave untouched; five cubes of unsliced cheese that I touch once day; and five cubes that I leave untouched.

MRETEPXNIE ____________________________

_____ Why is the sliced cheese in the fridge all moldy?

BEMOPLR ________________________________

_____ I was right: Touching is the critical factor in making cheese mold.

LNCSUOICNO ____________________________

_____ There must be something about sliced cheese that makes it more likely to mold.

ECRFENINE ______________________________
Scientific Method Foldable – Sponge Bob Science

Looking in your interactive notebook, write out the steps of the scientific method:

1.___________________________________

2. __________________________________

3. __________________________________

4. __________________________________

5. __________________________________

6. __________________________________
Flower Power

SpongeBob loves to garden and wants to grow lots of pink flowers for his pal Sandy. He bought a special Flower Power fertilizer to see if will help plants produce more flowers. Sponge Bob thinks the fertilizer will help make the most flowers. He plants two plants of the same size in separate containers with the same amount of potting soil. He places one plant in a sunny window and waters it every day with fertilized water. He places the other plant on a in the same sunny window and waters it with plain water every day.

He then measures the height of the plants every 2 days in cm. In the end, the plant with the fertilizer grows a total height of 15 cm, while the one without the fertilizer grows a total of 8 cm.


  1. What is the stated questions:




  1. What is sponge bob’s hypothesis?




  1. What data does he collect during the experiment?




  1. What should sponge bob’s conclusion be?

Scientific Method Foldable


1. Fold your printer paper in half landscape (hot dog) style. Now fold the hot dog into 3rds. You should now have 6 equal sized boxes.

2. Write the 6 steps of the scientific method, 1 for each box in order.

3. Write a description for each step in your own words.

4. Draw what sponge bob did for each of these steps in the flower power experiment.



5. Write an explanation for each picture below the drawing.

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