Grade 6 Worksheets

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• Analyze how specific word choices (especially verbs, qualifiers, and comparative terms) affect meaning and inference.
• Identify how language signals certainty, sequence, and comparison in informational text.
• Explain how precise language prevents readers from misreading implied conclusions.

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• Analyze how an author’s choices in plot, characterization, setting, dialogue, point of view, and sensory details develop theme or message.
• Explain how specific scenes contribute to a fable or short realistic story’s overall meaning.
• Use evidence from the text to support claims about author craft and theme.

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• Analyze how point of view and author voice shape what a reader learns and how it feels.
• Infer characters’ motives using textual evidence from different perspectives (first-person, third-person limited, and external narrator).
• Explain how diction and sentence style contribute to tone and the reader’s conclusions.

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• Identify the central idea of a persuasive nonfiction text.
• Select supporting details (reasons, facts, examples, elaborations) that strengthen the author’s claim.
• Distinguish essential supporting details from interesting but nonessential information.+ Show more

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• Identify a theme by tracking repeated ideas across a narrative.
• Connect theme statements to specific supporting details, including conflicts and resolutions.
• Explain how turning points change the meaning of events in a text.

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• Distinguish tone from mood by identifying the author’s attitude and the text’s emotional atmosphere.
• Analyze how word choice, imagery, and sentence style (diction and syntax) contribute to tone and shape mood.
• Explain how shifts in events can cause changes in tone and mood.

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• Explain how visuals (labels, captions, charts, maps) connect to claims and details in an informational text.
• Determine how headings and subtopics guide understanding before and during reading.
• Use textual evidence to describe relationships between diagram information and surrounding sentences.

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• Use correct capitalization, spelling, and punctuation to clarify meaning in writing.
• Apply comma rules for complex sentences, transitions, and items in a series.
• Use hyphenated modifiers correctly to prevent confusion about which words belong together.

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• Select evidence that directly supports a stated claim
• Explain how evidence connects to a purpose using clear commentary
• Use paraphrases and quotations accurately while adding specific reasoning+ Show more

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• Identify how a writer’s purpose statement shapes a controlling idea for a selected genre.
• Explain how audience and voice influence word choice, details, and tone.
• Revise sentences to make topic, audience, and voice align with the intended effect.+ Show more

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• Identify whether a source is relevant to a specific research question.
• Evaluate credibility by considering author expertise and evidence quality.
• Determine whether a source is appropriate by checking publication context and timeliness.+ Show more

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• Define and use key financial words: budget, income, expense, plan, and total.
• Identify how to sort money into income and expenses in a simple budget.
• Choose the best action for budgeting money using a plan and calculating totals.

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• Use saving and spending vocabulary (track, category, record, spend, save) to describe money choices.
• Identify why tracking and recording purchases helps people stay within a plan.
• Sort common purchases into spending categories and explain how categories improve budgeting.

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• Identify key vocabulary terms (balance, goal, priority, amount, leftover) in money-tracking contexts
• Choose the best step for tracking money to meet needs, save for goals, and plan for spending
• Apply budgeting ideas to decide what to pay first and how to use remaining money

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• Identify needs and wants when making a spending choice.
• Explain a trade-off using the terms option, cost, and value.
• Choose the best option when two items compete for limited money.

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• Use the words compare, decide, option, better, and best correctly when talking about buying choices
• Choose the better value by comparing two spending options using clear reasons
• Identify consequences of teen spending choices, including digital payments and saving for part-time work goals

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• Explain why passwords protect accounts and why security matters.
• Identify safe password habits that reduce the risk of account access by others.
• Choose appropriate actions after noticing a suspicious login or spending record.

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• Identify what a payment receipt tells you about a digital transfer
• Explain how reviews can help you judge whether a digital money tool is trustworthy
• Choose safe actions when using bank apps, transfer screens, and payment links

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• Define the terms savings account, deposit, and interest using correct financial vocabulary
• Identify what a deposit adds to a savings account balance and what it means to keep a record
• Explain how interest can increase a savings account balance over time

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• Define power as the rate of energy transfer in an electrical circuit
• Explain how voltage and current relate to power dissipation in resistive elements
• Describe how efficiency affects energy use and total energy consumption over time

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• Explain how charge transfer happens during triboelectric effects between different materials.
• Use the triboelectric series to predict which materials tend to become positively or negatively charged.
• Describe how attraction and repulsion result from electrostatic charges.+ Show more

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• Describe how physical, diagrammatic, and mathematical models represent complex systems
• Identify assumptions and define model boundaries when interpreting model predictions
• Compare model predictions to observable outcomes to evaluate limitations and refine models+ Show more

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• Identify common circuit symbols for cells, batteries, resistors, lamps, switches, ammeters, and voltmeters.
• Explain how arrows, orientations, and line connections in a schematic show circuit topology and current paths.
• Predict how series, parallel, and mixed connections affect the behaviour of components.

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• Explain how voltage, current, and resistance are related using proportional reasoning
• Use Ohm’s law to compute or compare circuit values from given measurements
• Predict how current changes when resistance changes in a fixed voltage circuit+ Show more

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• Decompose a mixed series-parallel circuit into simpler series and parallel subcircuits.
• Describe how current and voltage divide in combined circuit sections.
• Predict how changes to a component affect brightness or meter readings in real circuits.

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• Compare the relative sizes, masses, and average distances of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
• Explain how mutual gravitational pull creates orbital motion and a stable Earth–Moon system.
• Describe the Earth–Moon barycenter and how it affects their shared motion around each other.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s axial tilt causes different sun angles in each hemisphere.
• Describe how Earth’s orbit changes Earth–Sun distance slightly and how this contributes to seasonal energy patterns.
• Compare solstice and equinox geometry using tilt and sunlight distribution.+ Show more

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• Describe how robotic probes explore space using flyby, orbiter, lander, and sample-return mission types
• Explain how distance affects communication delay and mission planning
• Identify how propulsion, gravity assists, and instrumentation choices support data collection+ Show more

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• Describe how free electrons allow charge to flow in electrical conductors
• Compare how different materials behave as conductors or poorer conductors
• Explain how temperature, material type, and cross-sectional area affect conductivity

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• Explain how propellers generate thrust by accelerating air in one direction
• Describe how reaction engines create thrust by accelerating exhaust backward
• Compare how thrust-to-weight ratio affects climb and acceleration+ Show more

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• Organize observations into tables and identify what information belongs where.
• Select an appropriate graph type to display quantitative and qualitative data.
• Read and interpret graphs by describing trends, outliers, and uncertainty.+ Show more

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• Describe major components of the solar system, including planets, dwarf planets, and belts of small bodies.
• Compare terrestrial and gas giant planets using composition, atmosphere, and surface conditions.
• Explain how orbital location and energy balance relate to temperature and habitability.

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• Explain how DNA barcoding and sequence comparison help identify species.
• Describe how phylogenetic trees show relationships between organisms.
• Compare morphological classification keys with genetic evidence for delimiting species.+ Show more

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• Explain how observable characteristics are used to group living things in a classification system.
• Use a simple dichotomous key to identify an organism by following paired choices.
• Describe how hierarchical categories connect kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

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• Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers in food webs and food chains.
• Explain how energy transfers and decreases across trophic levels.
• Describe how removing or adding a species can affect other species in a connected community.

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• Describe biodiversity patterns using species richness, abundance, and evenness.
• Identify how transects and quadrats help scientists sample ecosystems.
• Compare ecosystems by interpreting simple diversity indices and habitat heterogeneity.+ Show more

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• Explain how adaptation tradeoffs can favor either specialization or broad tolerance.
• Compare how fitness benefits and costs differ for specialists and generalists in changing environments.
• Use examples (plants, insects, migration) to describe how environment affects survival and reproduction.

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• Explain how invasive species are introduced and establish in new habitats
• Describe how invasive species can outcompete, prey on, or otherwise harm native species
• Identify evidence of ecosystem alteration caused by invasive species+ Show more

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• Identify and classify adaptations as structural, behavioural, or physiological
• Explain how inherited traits differ from acquired characteristics
• Describe how environmental pressures can change survival and reproduction over generations+ Show more

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• Explain how the changing relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon control the visible fraction of the Moon
• Sequence lunar phases using illumination geometry and recognize that the pattern repeats cyclically
• Differentiate lunar phases from eclipses by describing what each event requires+ Show more

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• Explain how designers balance multiple performance goals when making changes to a configuration.
• Describe Pareto trade-offs and identify why improvements in one area can limit another.
• Use structural constraints to justify choices for stability, efficiency, and manufacturability.

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• Identify lift, drag, thrust, and weight as aerodynamic or gravitational forces in flight.
• Explain how the direction and magnitude of forces affect climb, steady level flight, and descent.
• Use vector addition to describe equilibrium when net force is zero.+ Show more

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• Define keystone species and explain how they affect community structure
• Identify evidence that suggests a species has keystone impacts
• Describe trophic cascades caused by changes in predator or mutualist populations+ Show more

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• Explain how airfoil camber and thickness affect pressure distribution and lift.
• Compare simplified Bernoulli and Newtonian ideas for how lift is produced.
• Describe how chord length, leading-edge curvature, and angle of attack influence lift and stall.+ Show more

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• Classify drag as parasitic or induced and explain why induced drag is linked to lift.
• Identify the three components of parasitic drag and describe how they depend on speed.
• Explain how wing area, aspect ratio, and weight trade-offs affect lift and drag.

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• Describe the steps of an iterative design process used in aircraft and gliders.
• Use performance criteria and trade-offs to justify design choices related to lift, drag, weight, and stability.
• Interpret simple lift and drag measurements to decide how to refine a prototype.+ Show more

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• Identify primary and secondary control surfaces and describe what each one controls in flight.
• Explain how deflecting a control surface changes local lift and creates a turning moment.
• Describe control authority and how it affects an aircraft's response compared with stability.+ Show more

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• Explain how habitat restoration and protected areas help maintain biodiversity.
• Describe trade-offs among conservation actions and choose priorities using clear criteria.
• Use metrics and adaptive management to evaluate whether stewardship strategies are working.