Month

Math

Standards

Science - Earth science

Standards

Social Studies - Ancient civilizations

Standards

August

Inquiry & Scientific Method

September

• Graphs which organize data (line plots, bar graphs, stem-and-leaf plots, histograms, circle, scatter, coordinate)
• Correlation between 2 sets of data
• Data samples and populations
• Biased vs. unbiased questions
• Project - typical 6th grader or conducting a survey

Earth's Beginnings 

• Investigating the Past
• Early Hominids
• From hunters to gatherers to farmers
• Rise of Sumerian City-States

October

Number Theory - "Prime Time"

• Factors, multiples
• Greatest common factor & least common multiple
• Roots & exponents
• Prime factorization

 Foundations of Plate Tectonics

• Exploring four empires of mesopotamia

November

Number Theory cont.

• Order of Operation
• Order of Operation
• Project - special number

Integers

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying & dividing positive and negative numbers

Theory of Plate Tectonics 

• Geography and early settlement of Egypt, Kush and Canaan 
• Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs

December

• Place value
• Comparing & ordering
• Rounding
• Terminating vs. repeating vs. non-terminating decimals

Earthquakes 

January

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers with decimals

• Converting from decimals to fractions
• Equivalent fractions
• Simplest form
• Comparing and ordering
• Mixed numbers and improper fractions

• Ancient Hebrews and the origins of Judaism
• Struggle to preserve Judaism

• Geography and early settlement

February

• Adding, subtracting, muplying and dividing fractions with unlike denominators & mixed numbers
• Ratios & proportions

• Converting from fraction and decimal into percent
• Percent as out of 100
• Examples in the real world

• Ecosystems
• Biomes
• Producers, consumers & decomposers
• Communities and populations
• Food chain/web (energy pyramid)
• Adaptations (lab: birds and beaks)
• Animal defense mechanisms (lab: birds & bugs)
• Symbiosis (skits)

• Unlocking the secretes of Mohenjodaro
• Hindi beliefs
• Story of Buddhism
• Buddhism and the first unification of India
• Achievements of the Gupta Empire

March

• Finding the percent of a number
• Estimating 10%, 1%, etc.
• Calculating sales tax and discount of an item
• Simple and compound interest
• Project - personal finance budget

• Geography and early settlement
• The Shang Dynasty
• Three Chinese Philosophies
• The First Emperor of China
• The Han Dynasty
• The Silk Road 

April

• Point, line, plane
• Intersecting lines and angles
• Interior angles sums of quadrilaterals & triangles
• Measuring and constructing acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles
• Convex and concave polygons
• Regular and irregular polygons
• Project: symmetry and tesselation designs

• Designing a controlled experiment
• Variables & fair testing
• Creating data tables for the group
• Data collection procedures

• Geography & early settlement
• The rise of democracy
• Life in two City-States: Athens & Sparta
• fighting the Persian wars
• The Golden Age of Athens
• Alexander the Great and his empire

May

• Perimeter of polygons
• Area of parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids
• Area of 'composite' shapes
• Curcumference and area of circles
• Maximizing and minimizing area of rectangles

• Parts of a plant
• Monocot & dicot seeds
• Germination
• Seed travel
• Roots of a plant
• Plant reproductions/flowers
• Parts of a flower (Lab: flower dissection)
• Bees
• Photosynthesis

• The Legacy of Ancient Greece
• Research Project on Ancient Greece

• Organizing possible outcomes (lists or tree diagrams)
• Dependent and indepdendent events
• Experimental vs. theoretical probability

Conclude Experiment with Plants

• Experiment groups review their data, draw conclusions and create a presentation.

• Geography & Early development
• Rise of the Roman Republic
• From Republic to Empire
• Daily Life in the Roman Empire

Ongoing

Monthly Einstein Challenges Packet

Problem Solving

Reasoning Skills

Scientific Method & Inquiry

Maintain a science notebook