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Sixth Grade Science Syllabus
First Nine Weeks
Elizabeth Reid
James Mann
472-4431 x4911
472-4431x4905
elizabethr@wcs.edu
Jimm@wcs.edu
Grading Policies:
Grading Scale
A
(91 – 100)
B
(81 – 90)
C
(72 – 80)
D
(70 – 71)
F
(Below 70)
I
(Incomplete)
1)
20% of your child’s grade will be based on
responsibility.
a)
Homework/Class Work for practice
i)
This will count for half of the responsibility
grade.
b)
Folder Checks/Agenda
Checks/Participation/Organization/Preparedness
i)
Each student begins with 100 points
per
nine weeks that will be deducted if
necessary.
2)
80% of your child’s grade will be based on
academic performance.
a)
Tests (test grades count twice)
b)
Quizzes
c)
Performance Based Assessments (PBA grades count
twice)
d)
Essays
e)
Homework/Class work
f)
Labs
g)
Presentations
Classroom Procedures:
1)
Arrive on time with required materials and begin
entrance activity.
2)
Students will be responsible for maintaining a
unit folder.
3)
Students are expected to actively participate in
all classroom activities.
4)
Students are required to update their agendas
daily.
5)
All work missing due to excused absences must be
completed within the same number of days the
student missed in order to receive full credit.
6)
Late work will be accepted with a possible
credit deduction.
Behavior Policies:
Students may receive a check if they fail to
comply with school wide rules.
Three checks will result in disciplinary
action.
Homework Policies:
1)
Although most tasks will be completed within the
science classroom, homework will occasionally be
assigned.
Web based activities such as Study Island
may be assigned as homework.
2)
There will be two types of homework
a)
Practice
i)
Included in the 20% responsibility portion of
grade
b)
Grades will be based on completion.
c)
Mastery
i)
Included in the 80% academic portion of grade
ii)
Grades will be based on student performance of
the assigned task.
First Nine Weeks:
During the first nine weeks, your child will be
investigating how living things interact with
each other and the environment.
He/she
will gain a better understanding of how plants
use sunlight to produce food and how the suns
energy is passed through the food chain to
sustain life on Earth.
He/she will examine the Earth’s various
ecosystems and develop an understanding of the
adaptations organisms possess that enable them
to survive in a particular ecosystem.
Throughout the nine weeks your child will
be reading for content, writing essays,
participate in group activities, creating
posters, doing lab activities, taking nature
walks, watching demonstrations, drawing, role
playing, playing ecology games, study island,
and watching videos.
Learning Targets
Sixth Grade Science
Ecology
Students’ grades for the first nine week grading
period will be based on evidence of mastery of
the following learning targets.
Responsibility:
Students will adhere to the following classroom
expectations.
Ø
Produce high quality homework and class work.
Ø
Complete work in a timely manner.
Ø
Arrive to class with appropriate materials.
Ø
Actively participate in all class activities.
Ø
Organize and maintain your daily agenda and
science folder.
Foundations of Ecology:
Demonstrate an understanding of the foundational
terminology and concepts associated with
ecology.
Ø
Define key ecological terms.
Ø
Begin to understand how living things are
interdependent.
Ø
Identify the five levels of environmental
organization and understand how they are
related.
Energy Flow:
Understand how energy flows through and
ecosystem.
Ø
Classify organisms as producers, consumers, or
decomposers.
Ø
Identify how organisms obtain food for energy.
Ø
Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms
in a food chain or food web.
Ø
Classify organisms as producers, consumer, or
decomposers in a food chain or food web.
Ø
Infer the consequences of a change in population
size of an organism in a food chain or food web.
Interactions:
Understand how living things interact with each
other and their environment.
Ø
Distinguish between symbiotic, predator /prey
and competitive relationships.
Ø
Distinguish between commensalism, parasitism and
mutualism.
Ø
Distinguish between the predator and its prey in
a predator/prey relationship.
Ø
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the
interdependence of living things.
Diversity and Adaptations:
Understand that living things have adaptations
that enable them to live in their environment.
Ø
Understand the relationship that exists between
the shape of a physical feature and the function
of the feature as it relates to an organism’s
survival.
Ø
Identify and classify adaptations that help an
organism survive in its environment.
Please sign and return,
this
page only,
indicating that you have read and understand the
sixth grade science syllabus for the first nine
weeks.
Parent/Guardian
Signature__________________________________
Date_____________
Student
Signature_________________________________________
Date_____________
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