Grade 6 Science Worksheets

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• Analyze data from comparative tests to identify performance characteristics and trade-offs.
• Use graphs, averages, and error discussions to support design choices.
• Understand how to balance competing goals like strength versus weight or cost versus durability.+ Show more

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• Compare multiple design solutions using matrices, scoring rubrics, and prototypes.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics such as efficiency, durability, manufacturability, and cost.
• Use models and evidence-based justification to rank options and improve solutions.+ Show more

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• Understand how to establish criteria and constraints for a design problem.
• Identify ways to specify required functions and success measures.
• Relate cause and effect using scientific principles in problem definition.+ Show more

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• Explain the relationship between electrical energy transfer and power dissipation in circuit elements.
• Define power as the rate of energy transfer and connect it to current and voltage.
• Identify everyday examples of electrical power usage such as lighting and heating.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of adaptation trade-offs and how they influence organism strategies.
• Identify examples of specialists and generalists in different environments.
• Analyze how environmental fluctuations affect evolutionary strategies such as niche specialization and broad tolerance.+ Show more

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• Explain the single-path configuration of series circuits and how current remains consistent through all components.
• Describe how voltage divides among series-connected components and relate this to brightness in incandescent bulbs.
• Analyze how adding resistances in series impacts overall circuit resistance and device operation.+ Show more

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• Understand the ecological impacts of nutrient loading, chemical contaminants, and bioaccumulation due to pollution.
• Identify measurable indicators such as dissolved oxygen, algal biomass, and contaminant residues in ecosystems.
• Explain how pollution influences species diversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial and aquatic environments.+ Show more

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• Explain how electric current is an organized movement of charges through a conductor.
• Differentiate between conventional current direction and electron flow.
• Describe potential difference as the driving force behind current.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of ecological niches and the difference between fundamental and realized niches.
• Identify how abiotic factors and interspecific interactions influence resource use and habitat occupation.
• Analyze examples of niche partitioning among species and the role of behavioral flexibility in adaptation.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of mixed series-parallel electrical networks and how to decompose them into simpler subcircuits.
• Analyze current and voltage distribution in combined circuit configurations and predict the effects of element changes.
• Identify diagnostic signs in combined circuits, such as brightness variations, to determine component status.+ Show more

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• Understand the definition of electric charge
• Differentiate between static and current electricity
• Identify examples of charge phenomena in daily life+ Show more

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• Understand internal physiological processes that support survival in different environments.
• Identify examples of physiological adaptations such as heat exchange, water conservation, and metabolic regulation.
• Link physiological mechanisms to their roles in helping organisms adapt to environmental extremes.+ Show more

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• Match data types (time trends, categories, relationships) to appropriate graph types
• Select an appropriate scale and axis labels to avoid misleading interpretations
• Use annotations to clarify key features of data in science graphs

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• Understand methods used to detect trends, cycles, and anomalies in datasets.
• Recognize the role of descriptive statistics, moving averages, and seasonal decomposition in pattern analysis.
• Link observed data patterns to environmental drivers through examples such as temperature trends and river flow cycles.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth's axial tilt causes seasonal variation in sunlight and temperature.
• Describe why hemispheres experience opposite seasons due to Earth's orbit and tilt.
• Identify the effects of solstices and equinoxes on daylight duration and solar elevation.+ Show more

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• Understand how shape modifications in objects reduce aerodynamic resistance.
• Identify key principles like tapered tails, rounded noses, and surface smoothness that influence airflow.
• Connect practical examples such as farm equipment and aircraft cowlings to aerodynamic efficiency.+ Show more

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• Identify the different types of parasitic drag.
• Explain how form, skin-friction, and interference drag contribute to parasitic drag.
• Understand the dependence of parasitic drag on speed and aircraft shape.

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• Understand the principle of conservation of mass in physical and chemical changes.
• Trace atoms and mass during chemical reactions and physical processes.
• Use models and diagrams to demonstrate mass conservation at the particle level.+ Show more

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• Describe how atoms combine to form simple molecules like H2O and NaCl.
• Use models such as ball-and-stick and space-filling representations to visualize molecules.
• Explain the relationship between molecular structure and observable patterns of matter.+ Show more

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• Describe matter as composed of particles too small to see and relate microscopic behavior to macroscopic properties.
• Explain particle motion, collisions, and spacing in different phases of matter.
• Use particle models to understand changes of state such as melting, freezing, boiling, and condensation.+ Show more

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• Explain how gas pressure results from particle collisions with container walls.
• Describe how changes in temperature and volume affect gas pressure.
• Use the particle model to understand gas behaviours such as compression and expansion.+ Show more

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• Use models and diagrams to describe how atoms form molecules and structures.
• Understand chemical formulas such as H2O and NaCl.
• Identify how atoms combine and how structure relates to observable patterns of matter.+ Show more

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• Identify different forms of energy such as kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, and electrical.
• Describe how energy can be stored, transferred, and transformed between different forms.
• Explain examples of energy transformations in natural and engineered systems.+ Show more

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• Understand the structure and function of parallel circuits.
• Identify the advantages of parallel wiring in household systems.
• Explain how current splits and potential difference remains consistent in parallel branches.+ Show more

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• Understand the key features of different airfoil profiles
• Describe how camber, thickness, chord length, and leading-edge curvature influence lift
• Compare Bernoulli and Newtonian explanations of lift+ Show more

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• Describe how gravity depends on mass and distance using examples like Earth-Moon system and planetary orbits.
• Explain the concept of friction as a contact force that resists motion along surfaces.
• Differentiate between gravitational forces and contact forces such as friction in how they affect motion and orbiting behavior.+ Show more

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• Explain what an operational definition is and why it improves clarity and comparability in science.
• Identify the key parts of an operational definition (unit, measurement method, location, and timing).
• Convert qualitative observations into measurable, quantitative descriptions using correct units and protocols.

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• Explain the relationship between fluid speed and pressure as described by Bernoulli's principle.
• Describe how pressure differences around airfoils contribute to lift.
• Identify examples of Bernoulli's principle in real-world Alberta settings, such as wind tunnels and model gliders.+ Show more

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• Explain how birth and death rates, immigration, and emigration affect population size over time
• Describe the difference between exponential growth and logistic growth using carrying capacity
• Identify limiting factors and predict how density-dependent and density-independent factors change populations

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• Construct explanations predicting patterns of species interactions across ecosystems
• Identify key types of species interactions such as mutualism, competition, predation, and parasitism
• Compare interaction outcomes in forest, grassland, and freshwater environments+ Show more

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• Understand the differences between fundamental and realized ecological niches.
• Identify how biotic and abiotic factors influence resource use and habitat occupation.
• Analyze examples of ecological partitioning and behavioral flexibility in species.+ Show more

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• Understand what contact forces are, including friction and the normal force.
• Identify examples of contact forces in everyday life.
• Learn the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces.+ Show more

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• Explain how major cell organelles contribute to essential cell functions.
• Connect the structure of organelles to their specific roles in the cell.
• Compare plant and animal cell features using organelle function.

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• Explain how genetic differences and environmental influences can produce phenotypic variation within a species.
• Describe how temperature and nutrition can change gene expression or growth during development.
• Connect DNA sequence variation and epigenetic/environmental modifiers to observed differences in structure and function.

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• Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration transform energy in chloroplasts and mitochondria.
• Describe how matter cycles between organisms and the atmosphere through gas exchange and respiration.
• Use the idea of mass conservation to connect reactants and products in energy pathway processes.+ Show more

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• Distinguish between contact and noncontact forces using everyday examples (gravity, friction, and normal force).
• Explain how balanced vs. unbalanced forces relate to changes in motion (speed and direction).
• Describe the idea of net force qualitatively without formal vector calculations.

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• Identify the main idea of a text about streamlining
• Describe how shape changes affect airflow and pressure
• Explain how streamlined designs can reduce resistance and support stability

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• Identify and distinguish mutualism, competition, predation, and parasitism as common species interactions.
• Explain how shared resources and behavioral strategies can change the strength of interactions.
• Use habitat context (forest, grassland, freshwater) and species traits to predict interaction outcomes.

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• Understand the concept of species classification and its importance in ecology.
• Identify functional groups such as producers, consumers, and decomposers.
• Distinguish between native and invasive species, with examples relevant to Alberta.+ Show more

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• Understand the roles of ammeters and voltmeters in electrical circuits
• Identify measurement units of amperes and volts used in electrical measurements
• Explain the placement of measurement instruments in series and parallel circuits+ Show more

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• Understand how sunlight is converted into electrical energy.
• Identify different renewable energy sources and their transformation pathways.
• Explain the importance of energy conservation in renewable systems.+ Show more

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• Understand how birth rates, death rates, and resource availability influence population sizes.
• Interpret data showing fluctuations in population over time.
• Explain how resource abundance or scarcity affects reproduction and mortality.+ Show more

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• Understand how genetic and environmental factors influence organism traits.
• Explain the processes linking DNA, gene expression, and phenotypic variation.
• Identify examples of phenotypic variation caused by inherited and environmental factors.+ Show more

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• Understand the key stages of the design process in aeronautics.
• Identify criteria and trade-offs involved in aircraft and glider design.
• Apply measurement and refinement techniques to improve aerodynamic performance.+ Show more

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• Understand the different types of disturbance regimes that shape forest ecosystems.
• Recognize how disturbance characteristics influence landscape patterns and succession.
• Explain the role of fire, insects, wind, flooding, and human activities in ecosystems.+ Show more

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• Describe the major components of the solar system and their characteristics.
• Differentiate between terrestrial planets and gas giants based on their properties.
• Identify key features of dwarf planets, asteroids, and the Kuiper Belt.+ Show more

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• Understand the difference between static and dynamic stability in aircraft.
• Explain how airplane geometry impacts longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability.
• Identify how the position of the center of gravity affects aircraft stability.+ Show more

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• Describe Earth’s atmospheric structure and how pressure differences and air masses influence regional weather.
• Explain how fronts, prevailing winds, and seasonal heating patterns can create observable weather and climate changes.
• Connect heat transfer processes and the greenhouse effect to local climate variability and microclimates.