Grade guides · Usually ages 11 and 12

What children usually learn in Grade 6

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Ratios, rates and percentages 6.RP
  • Dividing fractions, and negative numbers on the number line 6.NS
  • Expressions with letters, and solving one-step equations 6.EE
  • Area of triangles and other shapes, volume, and nets of solids 6.G
  • Averages, and how spread out a set of data is 6.SP

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Reading

  • Quoting the text to back what it says and what it suggests RL.6.1
  • A theme, and how it is shown through details RL.6.2
  • The narrator's or the author's point of view RL.6.6, RI.6.6
  • Following an argument, and telling claims with evidence from claims without RI.6.8
  • Writing arguments with clear reasons and evidence, and explanations W.6.1, W.6.2
  • Research from several sources, quoted and credited W.6.7, W.6.8

Practise it with

Science

  • Gravity and the solar system, and the scale of space MS-ESS1
  • The rock cycle, moving plates, and Earth's history in rocks and fossils MS-ESS1, MS-ESS2
  • The water cycle, weather and climate MS-ESS2
  • Natural resources, hazards, and what people do to the planet MS-ESS3
  • Designing a solution, testing it fairly, and improving it MS-ETS1

Practise it with

Geography

  • Maps, satellite pictures and data to answer a question about a place D2.Geo, 6-8
  • World regions: their land, climate and people D2.Geo, 6-8
  • How people adapt to their environment and change it D2.Geo, 6-8
  • Rivers and water supply, and why towns grew by water D2.Geo, 6-8
  • Scale on a map, and distances across the world D2.Geo, 6-8

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History

  • Early civilisations, and how people lived in them D2.His, 6-8
  • Long timelines, BCE and CE, and change over centuries D2.His, 6-8
  • Archaeology, and evidence for the distant past D2.His, 6-8
  • Why civilisations rose and changed D2.His, 6-8
  • Early forms of government and law D2.Civ, 6-8

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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