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Dr. Hill's 6th Grade Science

Course Description

The Characteristics of Cells
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Students will be able to define the scientific terms of the various structures found in a cell. Students will be able to explain the function of each cell organelle and its role in overall cell function and maintenance. Students will be able to utilize visual, tactile and auditory modalities to reinforce their understanding of cell organelle function. Students will describe the relationship between cells and organisms. Students will create portable word walls, one pagers, and other products. Many assignments will be completed on StemScopes-- Reading Comprehension Quiz, Post Assessment, Writing, and Content Containment Quiz.
 
 
 
 

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Six Kingdoms

Watch the Brain Pop movie and create a one pagers to show what you learned.
 
Make the connection in regards to what you have been learning. Put this information in your INB.
Every living creature on Earth belongs to a kingdom. Scientists debate how many kingdoms there are, but most agree there are six. Here is how the six kingdoms are organized.
Archaea bacteria
Archaebacteria are bacteria with internal membrances and are found in deep-ocean thermal vents, hot springs in Yellowstone, and brine marine environments.
Eubacteria
Eubacteria are single-celled organisms that don’t have a nucleus. Bacteria make up the entire kingdom. There are more forms of bacteria than any other organism on Earth. Some bacteria are beneficial to us, such as the ones found in yogurt. Others can cause us to get sick.
Protists
Protists are mostly single-celled organisms that have a nucleus. They usually live in water. Some protists move around, while others stay in one place. Examples of protists include some algae, paramecium, and amoeba.
Fungi
Fungi are usually motionless organisms that absorb nutrients for survival. They include mushrooms, molds, and yeasts.
Plants
Plants contain chlorophyll, a green pigment necessary for photosynthesis, a process in which plants convert energy from sunlight into food. Their cell walls are made sturdy by a material called cellulose, and they are fixed in one place. Plants are divided into two groups: flower- and fruit-producing plants and those that don’t produce flowers or fruits. They include garden flowers, agricultural crops, grasses, shrubs, ferns, mosses, and conifers.
Animals
Animals are the most complex organisms on Earth. Animals are multi-celled organisms, eat food for survival, and have nervous systems. They are divided into vertebrates and invertebrates and include mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish.

Zariyana's INB on Eubacteria

This is a page from Zariyana's interactive notebook (INB). Students are encouraged to write in their INB to document information.The true interactive part of the notebooks is when students use the information provided to elicit their own responses in the journal. This requires higher level thinking and ultimately allows the students to make a deeper connection to their learning.

Zariyana's INB Protozoa

Students are encouraged to write in their science interactive notebooks (INB). Science interactive notebooks are a tool used to strengthen student learning of curriculum (the input) through increased student participation (the output). ... The right side of the spiral notebook is for writing down information given by the teacher (notes, vocabulary, video notes, labs, etc.)

Protists

A protist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. The protists do not form a natural group, or clade, since they exclude certain eukaryotes with whom they share a common ancestor i.e. some protists are more closely related to plants or animals than they are to other protists.
Watch the Brain Pop video. Write a summary in your INB. Include illustrations.

Corona Virus

Place this information in your INB.
A VIRUS is a strand of viral hereditary information (DNA) enclosed in a protein coat. A virus attaches itself to a healthy cell and ejects its hereditary information into the cell. The virus uses the cell to assemble its identical offspring and then it bursts the cell open, releasing all the replicated viruses, that is called an active cycle. On the other hand a virus can remain inactive letting its genetics information get replicated along with the cell's genetic information, that is called an inactive cycle.The virus can remain in the inactive cycle for a long while. At any point, the virus can enter the active cycle. Viruses can infect nearly every type of organism. In humans, viruses cause the flu, HIV, Corona Virus, among other things.

Create a one pager to document what you learn as you watch the Brain Pop video on the Corona Virus.
 

Classifying Living Things

Write this information in your INB.

Essential Questions: What makes a living thing? What does it mean to be living?
Scientist classify organisms by their structure and how closely related they are. They arrange them into groups and categories based on the features they have in common.
1. Are structured around the most basic living unit: a cell
2. Grow, change, and develop
3. Respond to STIMULI (anything that causes a reaction in organisms, such as sunlight, temperature, or other
environmental factors)
4. Consume energy in order to live
5. Reproduce
 
Create a anchor chart using this information.