Grade 6 Worksheets

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• Explain how decomposers (fungi and bacteria) break down dead organisms and waste
• Describe how decomposers return nutrients to soil and water for producers to reuse
• Connect decomposer activity to ecosystem productivity, growth patterns, and long-term sustainability

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• Construct evidence-based arguments relating ecosystem changes to population dynamics.
• Analyze case studies involving predator reintroduction, invasive species, habitat fragmentation, and disease outbreaks.
• Interpret empirical data sets and longitudinal observations to understand causes of population increase or decline.+ Show more

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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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• Understand the historical progression of schooling and knowledge transmission.
• Analyze the impact of Indigenous educational approaches and institutional schooling.
• Evaluate causes and consequences of educational reforms on cultural continuity and community roles.+ Show more

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• Identify major regional forest types and their characteristic species.
• Understand environmental factors that influence forest distribution.
• Recognize examples of forest types in Alberta and their features.+ Show more

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• Explain the concept of parallel circuits and how they differ from series circuits.
• Describe how potential difference remains the same across parallel branches and how overall current is distributed.
• Identify practical advantages of parallel wiring in household electrical systems.+ Show more

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• Understand how component behaviour affects energy distribution in circuits.
• Explain the relationship between power dissipation, internal resistance, and energy transfer.
• Analyze how internal resistance reduces available voltage under load.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of surface pressure distribution around wing sections and how it affects lift and pitching moments.
• Identify and explain key pressure features such as stagnation points, suction peaks, and pressure coefficient patterns.
• Analyze how camber and angle of attack influence the placement of pressure minima and the resulting aerodynamic forces.+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between historical continuity and historical change using examples from early periods.
• Identify how cultural, technological, and political elements can persist or transform over time.
• Use evidence from passages and prompts to make claims about how patterns shaped later societies.

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• Explain how archaeologists use artifacts and fossil evidence to infer aspects of early human life.
• Describe how tools, pottery, and plant remains can show changes in technology and settlement over time.
• Use evidence-based reasoning to answer questions about daily life, social organization, and cultural practices.

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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 reason, consequence, budget, goal, and choice to explain a buying decision.
• Choose the option that best matches needs, money available, and a personal spending goal.
• Predict likely consequences of impulsive spending and explain how budgeting helps.

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• Explain the processes involved in adaptation and how they lead to speciation.
• Identify evidence that supports the occurrence of speciation events in different environments.
• Analyze different factors that contribute to populations diverging into new species.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation creates day and night.
• Describe how axial tilt and orbital position affect the length of daylight during the year.
• Interpret how daylight duration changes with seasons and latitude in Alberta.

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• Understand how Indigenous and settler communities historically interpreted celestial patterns.
• Describe how oral knowledge and early astronomical records relate to seasonal and navigation practices.
• Explain the cultural significance of sky observations across different communities and time periods.+ Show more

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• Understand the basic principles and components of a wind tunnel.
• Explain how aerodynamic forces such as lift and drag are measured and calculated.
• Describe the significance of similarity parameters like Reynolds and Mach numbers in scaled testing.+ Show more

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• Use clues from a text to make logical inferences and draw conclusions.
• Determine character motives and likely feelings using dialogue and descriptive details.
• Identify themes or messages suggested by events, even when they are not explicitly stated.

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• Understand how scientific investigation and technological development influence each other.
• Identify tools and instruments that extend observation and measurement.
• Explain how technological improvements expand scientific inquiry and how scientific questions inform tool design.+ Show more

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• Explain how the spatial distribution of natural resources can influence where people live and how communities develop
• Describe the relationship between resource availability, population density, and economic growth
• Use examples to connect resource locations (water, minerals, arable land) to trade and regional prosperity

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• Explain how to connect a scientific claim to evidence using clear reasoning
• Describe evidence in terms of patterns, ranges, and matches between expected and observed values
• Use established scientific ideas to support or refute explanations+ Show more

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• Explain what compounds are and how they form from atoms of different elements.
• Describe how particle models show compounds with definite bonding arrangements.
• Use element ratios in compounds to predict properties and understand macroscopic differences.

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• Understand the primary control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, rudder, flaps) and their roles in aircraft maneuvering.
• Explain how deflections of control surfaces affect lift, drag, and aircraft stability modes.
• Describe the concepts of control authority and how surface sizing and hinge moments influence response and energy costs.+ Show more

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• Understand how to interpret patterns in environmental data.
• Learn methods for summarizing observational data using descriptive statistics.
• Identify appropriate visualizations like bar, line, and scatter plots for specific phenomena.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth's rotation causes day and night.
• Describe how Earth's orbit and axial tilt produce seasons and variations in daylight and temperature.
• Identify key phenomena such as solstices and equinoxes as markers of seasonal change.+ Show more

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• Explain how wing shape features (camber, thickness, and aspect ratio) affect lift and drag
• Compare high-aspect-ratio glider wings with low-aspect, robust wings used on short-field aircraft
• Use pressure-distribution ideas to describe how curvature and taper influence airflow

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• Describe how temporal and spatial patterns can be identified in environmental data
• Use descriptive statistics and moving averages to support observations about datasets
• Explain how seasonal decomposition helps separate trends, seasonal cycles, and irregular changes+ Show more

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• Explain how to turn analyzed observations into clear, evidence-supported claims
• Identify appropriate descriptive statistics and visuals for representing patterns in data
• Use scientific communication conventions such as labels, units, and citing data sources

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• Explain how to judge whether a claim follows from given data and methods.
• Identify whether evidence is relevant, consistent with patterns, and considers uncertainty.
• Match the scope of a claim to how strong the dataset is.+ Show more

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• Explain how question framing, fair design, and measurement choices affect the strength of evidence from data.
• Describe how to combine data from multiple sites while keeping data provenance and cross-site comparability.
• Write evidence-based conclusions that include limitations when using integrated datasets.

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• Explain how the law of conservation of mass applies to closed systems during physical and chemical changes.
• Use before-and-after measurements to make evidence-based conclusions about mass conservation.
• Distinguish between closed systems and open systems, noting how mass exchange affects measured mass.

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• Understand internal processes that enable organisms to survive in extreme environments.
• Identify different types of physiological adaptations such as heat exchange, water conservation, and metabolic regulation.
• Explain how hormonal mechanisms contribute to temperature, hydration, and energy balance.+ Show more

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• Understand the orbital motion of the Earth and its effects on seasons.
• Describe the phases of the Moon and the reasons for eclipses.
• Explain the relationship between the Sun's position, day length, and climate patterns.+ Show more

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• Understand the different types of drag and how they affect flight.
• Identify characteristics of parasitic and induced drag.
• Explain how wing design choices influence drag and lift.+ Show more

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• Explain how clarifying questions improve comprehension during discussion.
• Write clarifying questions that target confusion (definitions, examples, reasons, or missing details).
• Use active listening by restating an idea to confirm understanding.+ Show more

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• Interpret the meaning of similes, metaphors, and idioms by using context clues rather than only literal definitions.
• Explain how a speaker’s attitude and nearby events shape the figurative meaning of a phrase.
• Analyze how figurative language supports emotion, imagery, and conflict in a text.

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• Explain how Indigenous knowledge transmission differed from later institutional schooling during historical education change.
• Analyze causes and consequences of education reform, including effects on cultural continuity and assimilation.
• Describe how policy, family expectations, and labor markets influenced changing learning patterns and community roles.+ Show more

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• Explain how oral traditions and testimonies function as primary sources in community memory.
• Describe why oral narratives may change over time while still preserving important meanings.
• Compare oral and written historical accounts by considering audience, purpose, and power.+ Show more

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• Explain how community events (such as settlement, epidemics, and local fairs) can shape patterns of life over time
• Identify causes and predict short-term and long-term consequences of events in a community
• Analyze how economic changes and migration can influence social identity and traditions

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• Identify how community events such as settlement, epidemics, and fairs affected local life over time
• Explain causes and consequences of major developments using evidence from records and oral accounts
• Connect economic changes, migration, and social traditions to community identity

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• Understand the principles of relative and absolute dating used in geology
• Identify key features of the geologic time scale and fossil succession
• Explain methods of radiometric dating and their applications+ Show more

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• Compare different methods of leadership selection and governance used by civilizations
• Explain how leadership choices can affect political stability and social participation
• Use evidence from a passage to support claims about authority and lawmaking

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• Explain how richness, abundance, and evenness describe biodiversity
• Describe how transects and quadrats support consistent sampling
• Interpret simple biodiversity indices to compare habitats+ Show more

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• Describe how species richness and species occurrence can show biodiversity patterns across space and time
• Compare island faunas, latitudinal gradients, and habitat heterogeneity as examples of biodiversity variation
• Explain how turnover and community composition can be assessed using historical records and present-day surveys+ Show more

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• Interpret frequency tables and allele frequencies to describe how traits change in populations over generations
• Read and compare time-series graphs of population size to identify increasing, decreasing, and bottleneck patterns
• Use proportional reasoning to calculate how allele frequencies change and to predict outcomes for a simple scenario+ Show more

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• Explain how homologous structures and conserved DNA sequences support common ancestry.
• Use phylogenetic trees to describe divergence among related taxa over generations.
• Interpret vestigial organs and morphological gradients as clues about ancestral traits.

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• Understand how human activities alter ecosystems and affect biodiversity.
• Identify specific impacts of pollution, resource extraction, and land clearing.
• Explain the consequences of habitat loss and environmental pollution on ecosystems.+ Show more

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• Understand how to link scientific claims with supporting evidence.
• Identify different ways to communicate scientific data effectively.
• Recognize the importance of clarity and audience consideration in presenting evidence.

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• Understand how to assess the credibility of sources in historical research.
• Identify signs of bias and relevance in historical evidence.
• Develop skills to analyze the authenticity of different types of sources.+ Show more