Overview

Earth and Human Activity supports Grade 6 Science learning through NGSS investigations with 4 printable worksheets. Students explore how Earth systems respond to human choices, using evidence to connect sustainability strategies, resource use, natural hazards, and human impact to real-world outcomes.

What's Included

• ✅ Grade 6 Sustainability Strategies Science Worksheet | NGSS Printable Activity – Students analyze sustainability choices and justify how actions affect Earth systems over time.
• ✅ Grade 6 Resource Distribution & Mineral Resources Worksheet | NGSS Science – Students interpret patterns in where resources occur and explain how minerals can be used responsibly.
• ✅ Grade 6 Natural Hazards & Earthquake Prevention Worksheet | NGSS Science – Students identify natural hazards and use evidence to describe prevention and preparedness strategies.
• ✅ Grade 6 Human Impacts: Deforestation & Carbon Cycles Worksheet | NGSS – Students connect deforestation to changes in carbon cycles and evaluate cause-and-effect relationships.

Skills & Standards

Aligned to NGSS, this Earth and Human Activity bundle builds student reasoning about Earth systems as models of stability and change. Learners practice analyzing cause-and-effect relationships between human actions and measurable environmental outcomes, and they use evidence from reading and prompts to support explanations. Students also strengthen crosscutting understanding of systems and system models by tracing how interconnected components (resources, hazards, and climate-related processes) influence one another. 

Throughout the worksheets, students interpret information, identify relevant patterns, and communicate claims with supporting evidence, reflecting NGSS expectations for disciplinary core ideas related to Earth’s systems and human activity, along with scientific practices such as constructing explanations and using models to make sense of data.

Perfect For

• Teachers seeking structured instruction
• Sub plans
• Homework or review
• Intervention or centers
• Assessment preparation

How to Use

Plan about 1–3 weeks to complete the four worksheets, depending on your pacing and discussion time. Start with a brief warm-up each day using a short prompt from the prior worksheet (e.g., “What human impact changes an Earth system?”). Follow with guided practice where students underline evidence in the worksheet reading and then draft a one-sentence claim. 

Use an exit ticket to check reasoning (identify one cause, one effect, and the evidence that links them), and finish with an end-of-unit review comparing sustainability, resource use, hazards, and carbon-cycle impacts across the bundle.

Closing

With focused NGSS-aligned reading and evidence-based responses, this Earth and Human Activity lesson bundle helps students connect classroom learning to decisions that shape our planet.