6th Grade
Weekly Objectives
Week of May 29, 2006

 

Look below to review this week's objectives for 6th Grade.  In order to obtain more information about a specific benchmark for the content areas of Science and Social  Studies, please do the following:

  1. Remember the benchmark number (example: Science BM5).

  2. Then click on this link, Middle School Benchmarks.  Next, click on the subject you would like to view.

  3. Click on the desired benchmark number from the list that comes up on the screen.

This link will provide you with quick and easy access to the MICLiMB (Clarifying the language in Michigan's benchmarks). You will find an enormous amount of useful resources. Each benchmark is clarified with an instructional example, key concepts, real world context, and other web resources.

In order to obtain more information about a specific benchmark for the content areas of Language Arts and Math, please do the following:

  1. Remember the GLCE (example: R.WS.06.01).

  2. Then click on this link, Grade Level Curriculum Expectations. 
  3. Next, select the grade level and content area that you wish to review.
Next, select the grade level and content area that you wish to review.
 
LANGUAGE ARTS:
W.GN.06.03 Formulate research questions using multiple resources and perspectives that allow them to organize, analyze, and explore problems and pose solutions that culminate in a presented, final project.
R.IT.06.01 Analyze elements and style of informational genre (e.g., research report, how-to articles, essays).
R.IT.06.02 Analyze organizational patterns.
R.IT.06.03 Explain how authors use text features to enhance the understanding of central, key, and supporting ideas (e.g., footnotes, bibliographies, introductions, summaries, conclusions, appendices).
 
 
 
MATH:  
D.PR.06.01 Express probabilities as fractions, decimals or percentages between 0 and 1; know
that 0 probability means an event will not occur and that probability 1 means an event will occur.
D.PR.06.02 Compute probabilities of events from simple experiments with equally likely outcomes, e.g., tossing dice, flipping coins, spinning spinners, by listing all possibilities and finding the fraction that meets given conditions.
G.GS.06.02  Understand that for polygons, congruence means corresponding sides and angles
have equal measures.
G.TR.06.03   Understand the basic rigid motions in the plane (reflections, rotations, translations),
relate these to congruence, and apply them to solve problems.
G.TR.06.04   Understand and use simple compositions of basic rigid transformations, e.g., a
translation followed by a reflection.
 
 
 
SCIENCE:
SCI.I.MS.2  Design and conduct scientific investigations.
SCI.I.MS.3   Use tool and equipment appropriate to scientific investigations.
SCI II.MS.3  Show how common themes of science, mathematics and technology apply in real-world contexts.
SCI.IV.1.MS.5  Construct simple circuits and explain how they work in terms of the flow of current.
SCI.I.MS.6  Write and follow procedures of step-by-step instructions, formulas, flow diagrams and sketches.
 
 
 
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Benchmarks
BM 16 - Locate and describe the diverse places, cultures, and communities of major world regions.
BM 17 - Describe and compare characteristics of major world cultures including language, religion, belief systems, gender roles, and traditions.
BM 18 - Explain why people live and work as they do in different regions of Latin American.
BM 21 – Locate and describe major economic activities and occupations of Latin America and explain the reasons for their location.    
BM 29 - Locate and describe major cultural, economic, political and environmental features of Latin America and the processes that created them.
BM 30 - Describe major patterns of Latin American population, physical features/climate, ecosystems, cultures and explain some of the factors causing the patterns.
BM 31 - Compare major world regions with respect to cultures, economy, governmental system, environment and communications.
BM 32 - Describe how social and scientific changes in regions may have global consequences.  
 
Unit II/Chapter 9/3 Latin American – Geographic Factors and Natural Resources.
Chapter 9/Section 3: Introduction/ Pages 176 to 178.
Transparency 9.3/Causes Chart
Text summary/Page 38 Workbook
Guided Reading/Page 9 Workbook
Map: Drawing Conclusions
Vocabulary: Chapter 9 List/Page 12 Workbook
End of Chapter Activities: Chapter 9/Review and Assessment Pages 180 to 181.
Chapter 9 Test:  Review