Grade 6 Worksheets

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• Explain how monarchies, city-states, and tribal councils differ in how authority is organized.
• Describe how laws and leadership roles help maintain social cohesion.
• Compare how decision-making processes affect conflict resolution and cooperation in communities.

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• Explain how homologous structures and vestigial organs can provide evidence for common ancestry.
• Use conserved DNA sequences to support evolutionary relationships shown on phylogenetic trees.
• Interpret how branching patterns in phylogenetic trees relate to trait inheritance, divergence, and ancestral form.

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• Explain how synthetic materials are made by connecting natural resources to manufactured products
• Compare properties of common synthetic materials and natural counterparts (durability, flexibility, conductivity, biodegradability)
• Describe basic extraction and processing steps used to produce plastics, fibers, and glass+ Show more

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• Compare conservation strategies, habitat restoration, protected area design, and invasive species management using evidence from case studies.
• Evaluate ecological trade-offs and feasibility when solutions are applied to support biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• Explain how biodiversity supports pollination, water purification, and nutrient cycling under changing environmental pressures.

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• Explain how limiting resources affect individual organisms and population size.
• Use quantitative observations (measurements and patterns) to infer limiting resources and carrying capacity.
• Describe how resource gradients influence species distribution across marsh, desert, and forest habitats.

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• Explain how energy moves and changes form during photosynthesis and cellular respiration
• Describe how matter cycles through chloroplasts and mitochondria during chemical processes
• Use examples (stomata, leaf gas exchange, oxygen consumption) to connect energy pathways to real observations

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• Explain how monomers (amino acids, nucleotides, fatty acids, monosaccharides) form polymers (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates).
• Describe condensation reactions and hydrolysis as opposite processes that build and break macromolecules.
• Relate molecular structure of macromolecules to functions such as enzyme activity and transport across cell membranes.

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• Explain how cells coordinate using chemical and electrical signals
• Describe how receptors detect signals and trigger downstream responses
• Compare rapid nervous system signaling with longer-term endocrine hormone effects+ Show more

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• Explain how organ systems (circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and nervous) work together to support life.
• Describe the roles of tissues and organs and connect cellular activities to system-level outcomes.
• Use examples (like exercise) to show interdependence and homeostasis.

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• Explain how phenotypic variation can result from interactions between genes and environmental factors.
• Describe how environmental conditions can influence gene expression and traits during development.
• Use examples (nutrition, temperature, inherited traits) to predict how traits may differ within a population.

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• Explain how access to rivers and fertile land supported early river valley civilizations.
• Describe how irrigation and floodplain farming helped people grow enough food to form larger settlements.
• Identify ways that controlling water resources influenced social organization and government.

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• Explain how the relative positions of Earth, Moon, and Sun produce lunar phases through line-of-sight illumination and shadowing.
• Sequence the primary lunar phases and describe how they repeat in a predictable pattern.
• Identify conditions for solar and lunar eclipses, including alignment constraints and apparent sizes.

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• Explain how gravitational attraction between a planet (or moon) and the Sun produces orbital motion
• Describe how orbital shape can be elliptical and how distance affects orbital speed and orbital period
• Use comparative examples (Earth–Moon and Jupiter–satellites) to reason about how mass and distance influence orbits

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• Explain how tectonic, atmospheric, and hydrologic processes help cause different natural hazards.
• Describe patterns of hazard frequency, intensity, and location using evidence such as historical records and data.
• Analyze cause-and-effect relationships between hazard occurrence and impacts on communities and infrastructure.

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• Explain how land-use change, fossil fuel combustion, agriculture, and waste management can alter Earth’s biogeochemical cycles
• Describe how human activities can influence climate drivers and ecosystem structure
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect environmental observations to human actions over time and space+ Show more

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• Explain how geoscience processes (plate tectonics, sedimentation, and weathering) help form mineral, energy, and groundwater resources.
• Describe how the locations of ore deposits, petroleum basins, and aquifers follow patterns in Earth’s geologic history and water flow.
• Evaluate how demand, extraction impacts, and technology affect long-term availability and responsible resource allocation.

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• Explain how population trends and per-capita resource use affect Earth systems.
• Compare sustainability strategies such as renewable energy, conservation, circular resource use, and land management.
• Evaluate trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental priorities.+ Show more

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• Explain how changing perspective can alter a reader’s understanding of events and motives.
• Identify textual evidence that shows what information is foregrounded or backgrounded in a narrative.
• Evaluate how shifts in emotional angle or framing affect reliability and interpretation.

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• Explain how direct quotations and paraphrases support a claim using evidence from a text.
• Distinguish between quoting and paraphrasing while maintaining meaning and accuracy.
• Integrate evidence smoothly by connecting the cited detail to the interpretation.

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• Explain how community action can address a specific health concern by organizing people, resources, and partners.
• Identify advocacy and communication strategies that encourage health-enhancing behaviors and policies.
• Apply steps for teamwork, planning, and evaluation to support a community health initiative.

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• Identify morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that help organisms survive in specific environments.
• Explain how inherited traits can improve survival, predator avoidance, and reproductive success.
• Compare how different environments (desert vs. temperate regions) favor different adaptation patterns.

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• Identify and describe five common forms of energy: kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, and electrical.
• Connect each energy form to familiar everyday examples such as a rolling ball, a raised weight, warm objects, and batteries.
• Distinguish among energy forms using key descriptive features (motion, position, molecular activity, and electric charges).

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• Use word parts (prefixes, suffixes, and root words) to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Use context clues to confirm or adjust a word-part meaning guess.
• Select more precise vocabulary choices to improve descriptive and explanatory writing.

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• Describe how the relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon help explain lunar phases.
• Explain how alignment can produce solar and lunar eclipses using the idea of shadows.
• Connect the Moon’s gravity to tides on Earth and identify how tides change over time.

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• Identify major forest types (boreal mixedwood, montane, subalpine, and aspen parkland) using tree species and environmental conditions.
• Explain how abiotic factors like elevation, soil moisture, and fire history influence where forest types grow.
• Use Alberta examples to describe how forest boundaries form and why habitat diversity changes.

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• Select an appropriate graph type (line, bar, or scatter plot) for a given set of data and purpose.
• Label axes correctly and choose scales that show patterns without misleading impressions.
• Use annotations to clarify important features in a dataset or graph.

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• Identify major cell parts (cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and organelles) and describe their functions.
• Explain how cell structure helps life processes happen in an organized way.
• Compare the roles of shared cell parts and how specialized organelles support controlled chemical reactions.

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• Explain how cells convert energy and exchange materials to support life processes.
• Describe photosynthesis and cellular respiration as linked pathways for energy transfer and gas exchange.
• Use the ideas of diffusion and transport to predict how materials move across cell membranes.

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• Describe key structures of the respiratory and digestive systems and explain how each structure supports its function.
• Explain how gas exchange in the lungs happens through efficient diffusion driven by concentration differences.
• Model how digestion breaks food into smaller molecules that can enter circulation.+ Show more

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• Explain how evaporation, precipitation, and runoff move water through the water cycle.
• Describe how infiltration and groundwater recharge help store freshwater over time.
• Analyze how land cover and temperature affect streamflow and local humidity.

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• Explain what a design problem is and identify the need behind the problem
• Use measurable requirements and constraints to evaluate potential solutions
• Generate solution ideas using sketches, dimensions, and performance goals+ Show more

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• Identify trends on graphs, such as increasing, decreasing, plateau, and curved change.
• Describe graph patterns using quantitative language (including axis values and units).
• Use evidence from scatter plots and line graphs to make comparisons between conditions.+ Show more

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• Explain how heat transfer affects the energy and motion of particles in matter.
• Compare melting, freezing, evaporation, and boiling as changes in state.
• Use the particle model to predict how temperature and state changes are related.+ Show more

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• Explain how decomposers break down dead organisms and waste and return matter to the environment.
• Describe how nutrients and atoms move from decomposers to producers and support ecosystem functioning.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect decomposition to nutrient availability in soil and water.

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• Explain why chronological order helps historians understand change over time.
• Construct and interpret a timeline to show how events and developments are sequenced.
• Describe how sequencing influences ideas of progress and cause-and-effect relationships.

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• Explain how historians use multiple sources to build a historical narrative with a clear timeline.
• Compare the reliability and bias of different types of evidence (primary and secondary).
• Evaluate how missing context or perspective can change the conclusions drawn from evidence.+ Show more

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• Explain how different perspectives (Indigenous, settler, and immigrant) can change the meaning of historical events.
• Analyze how sources, language, and experiences shape historical narratives and interpretations.
• Evaluate why inclusive storytelling helps create a more complete understanding of the past.

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• Explain how globalization, technology, and migration can drive cultural change over time
• Analyze how cultural change affects identity, traditions, and social structures in communities
• Evaluate examples of cultural adaptation while recognizing that cultures are dynamic

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• Identify how physical geography (rivers, coastlines, and fertile land) affects where people settle.
• Describe how resource availability supports economic activities in early communities.
• Explain how settlement patterns can differ across regions due to environmental conditions.

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• Use criteria to evaluate the credibility of historical sources (accuracy, specificity, consistency).
• Determine whether a source is relevant to a specific historical claim or question.
• Identify perspective and bias by considering who created the source and why.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of a paragraph using supporting details and the author’s focus
• Determine how repeated ideas and connected details help organize a passage
• Summarize a text by stating the central point in one or two sentences

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• Explain how Indigenous knowledge systems connect observation, memory, and responsibility for land and resources.
• Describe reciprocal relationships between people, land, water, and animals in traditional ecological knowledge.
• Use examples to compare different ways knowledge can be shared, protected, and applied in stewardship.

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• Explain how adaptations help organisms survive when environmental conditions fit their traits.
• Describe how changes in conditions can shift survival and reproduction within a population.
• Connect adaptation over generations to changes in ecosystems and resilience.

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• Distinguish structural, behavioural, and physiological adaptations and give examples of each.
• Explain how adaptations can improve survival and reproductive success in a specific niche.
• Describe how inherited traits differ from acquired characteristics and how natural selection changes traits over generations.+ Show more

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• Explain how adaptation tradeoffs connect to fitness in changing environments
• Compare specialists and generalists by their benefits and costs
• Use examples (plants, insects, and migration) to predict which strategy may be favored under fluctuating conditions+ Show more

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• Explain how species richness, abundance, and evenness describe biodiversity in different ecosystems.
• Use sampling ideas (transects and quadrats) to quantify biodiversity and compare habitats.
• Interpret simple biodiversity indices and relate diversity patterns to ecosystem stability, resilience, and conservation.

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• Explain how nutrient loading causes eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems and how it affects dissolved oxygen.
• Describe how chemical contaminants can disrupt hormones in amphibians and harm biodiversity.
• Connect bioaccumulation and biomagnification to contaminant residues and effects on top predators.

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• Differentiate between a fundamental niche and a realized niche and explain why the realized niche is usually smaller.
• Identify how abiotic factors (environmental conditions) and biotic interactions (other species) affect where organisms live and what resources they use.
• Use examples of temporal and spatial partitioning to explain how similar species can coexist.+ Show more