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

Students study where energy comes from, how it moves from one object to another, and what happens when it changes form, like heat from friction or light from the sun.

Students study how living things depend on each other and their environment to survive. They look at how energy moves through a food web and what happens when something in an ecosystem changes.

Students study how living things change over time and why species look different from one another. They examine fossils, inherited traits, and natural selection to understand what makes life on Earth both varied and connected.

Students examine how humans use Earth's resources and how those choices affect the environment. They look at ways communities respond to natural hazards and work to reduce their impact on land, water, and air.

Students work through a full engineering design process: identifying a problem, testing possible solutions, and revising their design based on what the data shows.

Students trace where energy comes from and where it goes in a system, showing that the total amount stays the same even as it shifts between motion, stored position, stretched objects, chemical bonds, or heat.

Students use models to show how heat or sound can change a system. They trace how energy moves through conduction, convection, or radiation to explain why something gets warmer, cooler, or vibrates.

Students look at real data, like water levels or food supply records, to figure out why an animal or plant population grew, shrank, or stayed the same. They explain what the numbers show.

Students predict how animals and plants affect each other by competing for food or space, helping one another, or hunting and being hunted. They explain how these patterns play out across different ecosystems.

Students trace how energy moves from plants to animals through a food web or energy pyramid. They use diagrams to show why each level of the chain has less energy available than the one below it.

Students look at rainfall, temperature, soil, and the variety of living things in a place to judge whether an ecosystem like a desert, rainforest, or river is healthy or struggling.

Students study a real invasive species in Tennessee, examine what it has done to native plants or animals, and propose a plan to reduce the damage.

When species disappear from an ecosystem, humans lose more than wildlife. Students examine how shrinking biodiversity cuts off food sources, medicines, and natural processes like pollination and water filtration that people depend on every day.

Students trace how the sun's heat and differences in salt content cause ocean water to circulate in slow, planet-wide loops. They gather evidence showing why warmer, less salty water rises while cooler, saltier water sinks.

Students explain why some places are hotter, wetter, or windier than others. They trace how moving air, ocean currents, and landforms like mountains and coastlines shift heat around Earth and shape the climate where people live.

Students trace how water moves through Earth: evaporating from oceans and lakes, rising into clouds, falling as rain or snow, and flowing back downhill. The sun's heat and gravity keep the cycle going.

Students look at real data to figure out how human activity and other living things change the water cycle, reshape land, and affect the atmosphere.

Students build a diagram or model showing how gases like carbon dioxide and water vapor trap heat from the sun near Earth's surface. The goal is to explain why Earth stays warm enough to support life.

Students gather weather data (temperature, wind, humidity) to see how air masses collide and push each other around. That data shows why weather changes and helps predict what is likely coming next.

Students look at real data to explain how humans use natural resources like oil, coal, and water, and what happens to land, air, and water when those resources run low or run out.

Students compare energy technologies like solar panels and wind turbines to see how they work and how they stack up against each other. The focus is on energy sources that can be replenished, not burned up for good.

Students research how human choices affect wildlife and ecosystems, then explain what those effects are. They look at examples like protected lands, shrinking habitats, and species that have died out or are at risk.

Students identify a problem threatening an ecosystem, then design and test a solution to help plants and animals in that habitat survive. They revise their design based on what works.

Students design and build a device that controls how heat moves, then test it and explain how it works. Think of a cooler that keeps ice from melting or a container that holds heat longer.