Digital Sources for Environmental Inquiry is a Grade 6 Science worksheet focused on using digital information to investigate local environmental questions. Students examine how datasets, sensors, remote-sensing products, hydrometric stations, satellite-derived vegetation indices, and climate archives can support environmental inquiry.

Build Digital Data Literacy

The resource develops practical skills for evaluating whether a digital source is suitable for a research question. Students explore metadata, temporal resolution, and spatial coverage, including why these details matter when selecting and interpreting environmental data. They also examine how standardized formats and licensing rules affect the use, comparison, sharing, and modification of information from different providers.

What Students Practice

• Identifying digital sources used to investigate local environmental questions
• Explaining what metadata tells researchers about a dataset
• Distinguishing temporal resolution from spatial coverage
• Comparing digital sources based on the information they provide
• Explaining how standardized formats support comparison and synthesis
• Recognizing how licensing rules affect data use

Students work through a reading passage followed by multiple-choice questions, true/false statements, short-answer responses, a labeled diagram, a categorization activity, and a short note. The varied tasks give students opportunities to identify information, explain data concepts, and apply terminology related to digital environmental investigation.

Teacher-Ready Support

The resource includes the worksheet with Student Notes lines at the bottom for recording key ideas. A separate PDF provides the Answer Key along with a Teacher Guide containing Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes.

Use this Grade 6 Science resource for classroom instruction, guided practice, independent work, review, or assessment when introducing students to digital sources and evidence-based environmental inquiry. The Alberta framework named for the resource provides the stated curriculum context.