Reading-Language Arts

• Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
• Reading Comprehension
• Literary Response and Analysis
• Writing Strategies
• Writing Applications
• Written and Oral English Language Conventions
• Listening and Speaking Strategies
• Speaking Applications
  
  

Mathematics

By the end of grade six, students have mastered the four arithmetic operations with whole numbers, positive fractions, positive decimals, and positive and negative integers; they accurately compute and solve problems. They apply their knowledge to statistics and probability. Students understand the concepts of mean, median, and mode of data sets and how to calculate the range. They analyze data and sampling processes for possible bias and misleading conclusions; they use addition and multiplication of fractions routinely to calculate the probabilities for compound events. Students conceptually understand and work with ratios and proportions; they compute percentages (e.g., tax, tips, interest).

Students know about p and the formulas for the circumference and area of a circle. They use letters for numbers in formulas involving geometric shapes and in ratios to represent an unknown part of an expression. They solve one-step linear equations.

History-Social Science

World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations

Students in grade six expand their understanding of history by studying the people and events that ushered in the dawn of the major Western and non-Western ancient civilizations. Geography is of special significance in the development of the human story. Continued emphasis is placed on the everyday lives, problems, and accomplishments of people, their role in developing social, economic, and political structures, as well as in establishing and spreading ideas that helped transform the world forever. Students develop higher levels of critical thinking by considering why civilizations developed where and when they did, why they became dominant, and why they declined. Students analyze the interactions among the various cultures, emphasizing their enduring contributions and the link, despite time, between the contemporary and ancient worlds.

Science

1. Plate tectonics accounts for important features of Earth's surface and major geologic events.
2. Topography is reshaped by the weathering of rock and soil and by the transportation and deposition of sediment.
3. Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all the objects are at the same temperature.
4. Many phenomena on Earth's surface are affected by the transfer of energy through radiation and convection currents.