Grade 6 Science Worksheets

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• Understand what a food web is and how it depicts feeding relationships among species.
• Identify different species and their roles in a food web, such as producers, consumers, and decomposers.
• Recognize how energy flows through different pathways in an ecosystem.+ Show more

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• Identify observable signs of chemical changes
• Understand examples of chemical reactions like rusting and burning
• Differentiate between physical mixing and chemical transformations

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• Understand the structure and function of the circulatory system.
• Identify the roles of arteries, veins, and capillaries in blood transport.
• Explain how the heart's rhythmic pumping creates blood pressure.+ Show more

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• Identify basic electrical circuit components such as voltage sources, resistors, and current paths.
• Understand the proportional relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.
• Calculate current using measured voltage and resistance values.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth's axial tilt causes seasonal changes in solar angle and daylight duration.
• Describe the effects of Earth's tilt on regional climate variations such as in Alberta.
• Identify the relationship between orbital geometry and seasonal climate patterns.+ Show more

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• Understand the sources of measurement uncertainty in science data.
• Learn methods for estimating measurement uncertainty such as repeated measures and percent error.
• Recognize how measurement uncertainty influences confidence in scientific conclusions about environmental phenomena.+ 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 solar and lunar eclipses depend on the alignment of the Sun, Earth, and Moon
• Describe how orbital inclination and imperfect alignment affect whether an eclipse is partial or total/annular
• Interpret why eclipses are relatively rare for a given location using celestial geometry and timing

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• Understand the concept of density and how it relates mass and volume.
• Learn how density affects whether objects float or sink in water.
• Recognize that density depends on how tightly matter is packed.+ Show more

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• Explain how new substances form when atoms rearrange during a chemical change.
• Use macroscopic properties (such as solubility, conductivity, and melting behavior) to infer that composition has changed.
• Compare properties of reactants and products to distinguish chemical change from physical change.

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• Interpret data about resource availability and explain how it affects population size
• Describe how limiting resources influence carrying capacity and population fluctuations over time
• Use measurements from different habitats to predict where species are most likely to be abundant

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• Understand different conservation strategies used to protect forest biodiversity.
• Identify provincial examples of habitat protection and restoration.
• Explain how ecological knowledge informs conservation planning.+ Show more

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• Explain how design choices involve trade-offs between competing properties, needs, or constraints.
• Connect evidence (strength, flexibility, insulation, friction, weight, cost, transportability) to user needs and limitations.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to justify why one improvement can create new limitations.

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• Identify the main parts of a cell and their functions.
• Describe how cell parts work together to support life processes.
• Explain the differences between shared and distinct cell parts.+ Show more

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• Understand the different forms of energy such as kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, and electrical.
• Identify examples of kinetic energy in everyday objects.
• Recognize transformations between different energy forms.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy moves through food webs from producers to consumers and decomposers.
• Use energy pyramids and trophic transfer efficiency to describe why energy decreases at higher trophic levels.
• Describe how photosynthesis and cellular respiration contribute to an organism’s energy budget.+ Show more

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• Describe how the Sun’s apparent motion across the sky changes with season and latitude.
• Explain why sunrise and sunset locations shift even though the Sun appears to move.
• Relate solar elevation at noon to day length and solar intensity.

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• Describe how evaporation separates a soluble solid from a liquid by changing the liquid into a gas
• Use evidence (disappearance of liquid and recovered mass) to explain whether evaporation worked
• Distinguish evaporation from size-based separation methods

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• Compare the glide ratio, lift-to-drag performance, and control responsiveness of kites, gliders, and round canopies.
• Explain how design parameters influence endurance and maneuverability in flying devices.
• Analyze regional atmospheric factors like prairie crosswinds and valley thermals affecting flight outcomes.+ Show more

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• Explain how habitat fragmentation changes habitat connectivity for organisms in forests and wetlands
• Describe how edge effects and isolation can reduce gene flow and movement between populations
• Identify how fragmentation can disrupt pollination, food webs, and long-term biodiversity persistence+ Show more

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• Explain how homologous anatomical traits and vestigial organs can provide evidence for common ancestry
• Describe how conserved DNA sequences support evolutionary relationships shown on phylogenetic trees
• Use patterns of similarity and difference to interpret branching relationships among taxa

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• Use circuit topology (series vs. parallel) to predict how brightness and current should behave
• Identify the most likely fault by comparing expected measurement patterns with observed symptoms
• Explain how continuity and resistance readings support reasoning about open circuits and faulty components

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• Understand the different roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in food chains
• Identify the trophic levels and how energy flows through an ecosystem
• Recognize examples of simple pond and grassland food chains+ Show more

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• Understand that atoms are the basic building blocks of matter.
• Learn that atoms are conserved during physical and chemical changes.
• Identify how mass remains constant even when molecules rearrange.+ Show more

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• Identify different types of variables: independent, dependent, and controlled.
• Explain how variables affect observable outcomes in experiments or natural phenomena.
• Understand the importance of operational definitions and measurement consistency.+ Show more

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• Explain how electronic sensors, digital probes, and data loggers work together to collect measurements
• Choose appropriate sampling rate and resolution to improve measurement accuracy and record usefulness
• Describe calibration steps and the importance of documenting units, settings, and measurement context+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of heritable traits and recognize examples in nature.
• Distinguish between traits influenced by genetics and those influenced by the environment.
• Learn how traits are passed from one generation to the next through inheritance.

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• Define thrust and explain how it is generated by different propulsion systems.
• Differentiate between propeller-driven and jet-driven thrust methods.
• Describe the principles of how propellers produce axial thrust.+ Show more

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• Explain how matter and energy move among Earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere using models.
• Describe feedbacks (positive and negative) that change system behavior, such as ice-albedo effects.
• Use examples like sediment transport and nutrient cycling to predict observable patterns over time.

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• Understand the concepts of current and voltage measurement in electrical circuits
• Learn how to interpret readings and understand measurement uncertainty
• Recognize how different circuit configurations affect measurement patterns+ Show more

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• Understand human activities that affect forest ecosystems.
• Identify specific impacts such as land conversion, pollution, and invasive species.
• Analyze the effects of human impacts on habitat connectivity and species diversity.+ Show more

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• Understand how camber, thickness, chord length, and leading-edge curvature affect an airfoil's pressure distribution and lift.
• Compare Bernoulli and Newtonian explanations for lift and identify their limitations.
• Explain the significance of angle of attack, critical angles for stall, and how airfoil geometry influences lift coefficient at various speeds.+ Show more

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• Understand what habitat fragmentation is and its main causes.
• Identify effects of habitat fragmentation on ecosystems and species.
• Learn ways humans impact habitats through activities like road building and urban expansion.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy moves through ecosystems using producers, consumers, and decomposers.
• Describe how a food web shows multiple energy pathways compared with a single food chain.
• Use trophic level vocabulary to trace energy transfer between organisms.

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• Explain how integrated synthesis coordinates question framing, fair design choices, measurement plans, data handling, and evidence-based reporting.
• Identify how documentation and data provenance support cross-site comparability in environmental investigations.
• Describe how to communicate limitations when combining data sets to form policy-relevant conclusions.

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation causes the Sun and Moon to appear to rise and set each day
• Describe how Earth’s yearly orbit affects the Sun’s apparent changing position in the sky
• Identify the idea of diurnal motion, apparent stellar paths, and the celestial sphere from Earth’s perspective+ Show more

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• Understand gravitational attraction as the primary force governing planetary motion.
• Describe how mutual gravity produces elliptical orbits and influences orbital periods.
• Explain the role of central gravitational potential in satellite and planetary orbits.+ Show more

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• Understand the effects of deforestation on ecosystems.
• Identify the causes of environmental changes caused by human activities.
• Analyze how human impacts influence biodiversity and ecosystem services.+ Show more

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• Explain how the center of mass and center of pressure affect longitudinal and lateral static stability.
• Describe how design features such as dihedral angles and tail volume influence an object’s tendency to return to a steady attitude after a disturbance.
• Apply balance ideas to real contexts such as aircraft payload placement and small glider flight in changing wind.

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• Identify evidence of chemical reactions using qualitative indicators such as color change, gas formation, and precipitate formation
• Use quantitative data (mass, temperature, and composition) to decide whether new substances formed
• Explain how pre-interaction and post-interaction measurements support the claim that a chemical reaction occurred

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• Understand the concept of force and how it affects objects in motion.
• Identify different types of forces acting on objects.
• Learn the relationship between net force, mass, and acceleration.+ Show more

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• Identify human activities that affect forest ecosystems
• Understand how urban expansion impacts habitat connectivity
• Recognize examples of resource extraction and pollution in forests+ Show more

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• Identify how xylem and phloem transport different resources in a tree stem.
• Use details from a text to explain the purpose of vascular tissues.
• Connect plant transport to how trees survive and respond to environmental changes.

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• Write clear scientific claims supported by evidence and scientific reasoning
• Use standardized visual summaries (like graphs) to explain patterns and relationships
• Document observational records and methods clearly, including uncertainties

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• Explain how human activities alter Earth systems over time
• Describe how human activities change biogeochemical cycles
• Identify human actions that influence climate drivers+ Show more

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• Model how total mass is conserved in physical and chemical changes by tracking atoms and particle counts in a closed system
• Use mass measurements before and after a process to support claims about conservation of matter
• Explain why atoms can rearrange while the total number of atoms of each element stays the same

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation causes day and night.
• Describe how Earth’s orbital motion plus its 23.5° axial tilt creates seasons.
• Use solstices and equinoxes to predict observable changes in sunlight and day length.+ Show more

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• Compare design prototypes using quantitative and qualitative criteria
• Apply a scoring matrix to rank design solutions
• Justify a prototype ranking with relevant evidence+ Show more