6th+Sci+Earth+and+Space


 * Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space Science**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.1** Use data to draw conclusions about the major components of the universe

**Assessment Topic:** What are some characteristics of our universe?

**Essential Question (s):** Why do planets look like stars in the sky? Why does the sun appear to move across the sky? Why does the noon change its shape? How many planets are there? What type of star is our sun and why is it so much larger than other stars?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.2** Explain how the relative distance of objects from the earth affects how they appear

**Assessment Topic:** How does distance affect how objects appear from space?

**Essential Question (s):** Why is the sun much larger than other stars? How long does it take to travel to the moon? Why do planets look like stars? What size planet is earth compared to other planets?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space Science**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.3** Distinguish among a day, lunar cycle, and year based on the movements of the earth, sun, and moon

**Assessment Topic:** How are a day, month, and year determined?

**Essential Question (s):** How long does it take earth to rotate once on its axis? How long does it take the earth to revolve once around the sun? How long does it take the moon to revolve around the earth once? What causes day and night on earth?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space Science**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.4** Explain the different phases of the moon using a model of the earth, moon, and sun

**Assessment Topic:** What are the different phases of the moon and what causes them?

**Essential Question (s):** What causes the moon to appear to change shape in the sky? What is the reason we only see one side of the moon? How long does it take the moon to go through all of its phases? When can we not see the moon? How are the sun, earth, moon positioned during a full moon?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space Science**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.5** Predict the types of tides that occur when the earth and moon occupy various positions

**Assessment Topic:** Tides

**Essential Question (s):** Where are the sun, earth, and moon during high tides? Where are the sun, earth, and moon during low tides? What conditions are the sun, earth, and moon during spring tides? What conditions are the sun, earth, and moon during neap tides? What causes the tides?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space Science**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.6** Use a diagram that shows the positions of the earth and sun to explain the four seasons

**Assessment Topic:** Four seasons

**Essential Question (s):** What are the reasons for the seasons on earth? When do we have summer in the northern hemisphere? When do they have summer in the southern hemisphere? When would there not be a change in seasons?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Earth and Space Science**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.6.7** Explain the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse

**Assessment Topic:** Solar and lunar eclipse

**Essential Question (s):** What is the position of the earth, sun, and moon during a solar eclipse? What is the position of the earth, sun, and moon during a lunar eclipse? How often can you expect the eclipses to occur? What phase of the moon is happening during a solar eclipse? What phase of the moon is happening during a lunar eclipse? Why isn’t there a total eclipse every new noon?