Science Curriculum

6th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Sixth grade students will use earth/space science, life science, and physical science principles to identify and describe interactions between them.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.6.7 Students will model how energy moves through an organism and its ecosystem and design a food web for an ecosystem in order to describe its relationships to biotic and abiotic factors and the impacts on the environment.

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Component Code

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Standard(s)
  SC.6.7.1 Identify and describe where energy comes from for organisms (food) MS-LS1-6
  SC.6.7.2 Describe the relationship between consumers and producers MS-LS2-3
  SC.6.7.3 Model the movement of energy from one organism to another. (Trophic Level) MS-LS2-3
  SC.6.7.4 Define then compare and contrast biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.

MS-LS2-4

MS-LS2-1

MS-LS2-3
  SC.6.7.5 Identify abiotic factors and relationships including symbiotic, competitive, predation.

MS-LS2-1

MS-LS2-3

MS-LS2-4
  SC.6.7.6 Construct a food web, describing the relationships between the living organisms along with the abiotic factors. MS-LS2-2
  SC.6.7.7 Investigate and collect evidence in order to produce a claim about the relationship between predation and the rate of success of reproduction in a population.

MS-LS1-4

MS-LS2-2
  SC.6.7.8 Describe an invasive species impact on an ecosystem. MS-LS2-2
  SC.6.7.9 Illustrate the movement of carbon, nitrogen through Earth’s processes.

MS-ESS2-4

MS-LS2-3

Academic Vocabulary: cause, effect, compare, contrast, investigate, analyze, develop,  causal, correlational, investigate, analyze, illustrate, construct

Content Vocabulary:  consumer, producer, photosynthesis, trophic level, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, Predator, prey, food chain, food web, biotic, abiotic, symbiotic, competitive, predation, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, shelter, habitat, Niche, carbon cycle,  nitrogen cycle, invasive species, keystone species, limiting factor, carrying capacity