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TFSD Unwrapped Standard
Sixth Grade – Science
Power Standard (s) Reference: Standard 5 - Earth Science
State Standard:
District Standard: Science BSIPS standard 5
Full Text of TFSD Power Standard:
Hydrology: Students demonstrate - draw? Label a diagram? draw a chart? how energy
transfer drives the hydrological cycle which affects the geochemical process.
Meteorology: Students recognize – tell the teacher? write an essay? make a poster? the
causes and effects of different weather patterns.
Astronomy: Students classify stars, planets, satellites, and other stellar objects based
upon astronomical properties.
Geology: Students identify - list? Draw? the mechanisms of change on Earth which
continually produce physical structures that demonstrate observable properties.
Concepts: Need to know about (Nouns)
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Hydrology: evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, run-off, ground
water, and water cycle
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Meteorology: convection, weather patterns, air currents, cirrus, cumulus, and stratus
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Astronomy: satellites (natural and man-made), asteroids, comets, meteoroids,
meteorites, revolution, rotation.
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Geology: earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, rock cycle, igneous, metamorphic,
sedimentary, atmosphere, renewable and non-renewable resources.
Skills: Be able to do (Verbs)
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Hydrology:
Demonstrate energy transference of hydrological cycle.
Explain the water cycle and describe the relationship to weather and climate.
Illustrate how water is a primary agent of geochemical processes.
Compare water and location and relate how it limits the distribution of human
population.
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Meteorology:
Analyze and predict weather patterns.
Identify cloud types (cirrus, stratus, cumulus) and explain relationship to weather
changes.
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Astronomy:
Classify stars, planets, satellites, and other stellar objects.
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Geology:
Classify physical structures to explain how methods of energy transfer create these
structures.
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Analyze and illustrate how material moves through the rock cycle.
Explain the interactions between the solid earth, oceans, atmosphere, and
organisms.
Identifying Big Ideas from Unwrapped Standards:
1. Water directly impacts organisms, weather/climate, and geochemical processes.
2. Weather patterns can be predicted by air temperature and produce specific cloud types.
3. Motion, size, rotation, revolution and distance are properties of stellar objects.
4. The changing systems of Earth continually produce physical structures that demonstrate
observable properties.
Essential Questions from Big Ideas to Guide Instruction and Assessment:
1. How does water affect the earth’s systems?
2. How are air temperature and cloud types relate to weather?
3. How do scientists classify stellar objects?
4. What are the observable geological structures that demonstrate Earth’s continuous cycle?
Possible Topics or Context: (what you will use to teach the concepts and skills-particular
unit, lessons or activities)
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Craters of the Moon Field Trip
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Guest Speakers/meteorologist
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CSI Planetarium
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Erosion Table/Canyon Pictures
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Open Court cards for ideas
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Video – create clips explaining why
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Weather job for a week
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Chris Bell – Idaho Power hydrology
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Terrarium – graph
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Solar still
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Water cycle physical
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Rock cycle physical
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Astronomy
• Pics, facts
• Web quest
• Internet sites
• Weight on other planets
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