What does a student learn in StateOklahoma,GradeGrade 6,SubjectScience?

Students build a diagram or model showing what happens to the particles inside a substance when it heats up or cools down, including when it melts, freezes, or boils.

Students design and build a device to control heat transfer, then test whether it works. Think of insulating a cold drink to keep it from warming up, or building a surface that absorbs heat as fast as possible.

Students design an experiment to find out how the type and amount of a material affect how much its temperature changes when heat is added or removed.

Waves hit a surface and do one of three things: bounce back, pass through, or get soaked up. Students model how light or sound behaves differently depending on the material it meets, like glass, wood, or water.

Students investigate whether living things are made of one cell or many. They gather evidence by observing samples under a microscope and comparing single-celled organisms with plants, animals, and other multi-celled life.

Students build a model (drawing, diagram, or physical model) showing what a cell does and how its parts, like the nucleus or membrane, each play a specific role in keeping the cell working.

Students explain how the body's major systems (like the digestive or nervous system) work together to keep a person alive, using evidence to back up their reasoning. Each system is made of specialized cells doing a specific job.

Students learn how the brain receives signals from the senses and uses them to react in the moment or store as memories. This covers sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.

Rock layers act like a timeline. Students study stacked rock formations to explain how scientists divide Earth's 4.5-billion-year history into periods, using older layers buried deeper and newer layers closer to the surface.

Students build a diagram or model showing how rock, water, and air move through Earth's systems over time, and trace what source of energy, like the sun or heat from inside the planet, keeps those cycles going.

Geoscience processes like erosion, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes reshape Earth's surface over time. Students explain how those changes can happen in seconds or over millions of years, and across a backyard or an entire continent.

Students study maps of fossils, rock layers, and ocean floor ridges to figure out how Earth's continents have shifted over millions of years. The patterns in the data show where tectonic plates once met or pulled apart.

Students draw or diagram how water moves from oceans and lakes into clouds, then falls as rain or snow, and flows back downhill. The driving forces are sunlight, which pulls water into the air, and gravity, which pulls it back down.

Students track how air masses move and collide to explain why the weather changes. They collect real data, like temperature and pressure readings, to back up what they observe.

Students build a diagram or model showing why some parts of Earth get more sun than others, then explain how that uneven warmth, combined with Earth's spin, drives wind and ocean current patterns that shape the climate of each region.

Students study data from past earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions to spot patterns. Those patterns help scientists predict where disasters are likely to strike next and build better tools to protect people.