Language Arts
Sixth grade students will receive instruction in reading, writing, and listening, speaking, and viewing. By the end of the 6th grade, students will be able to:
- Use oral and written language, media, and technology for expressive, informational, argumentative, critical, and literary purposes
- Determine specific areas of interest and engage in personal reading
- Analyze their own writing in order to revise what they say and how they say it
- Employ distinctive voice and style in writing
- Proof their own writing and edit to conform to basic conventions of Standard English
- Convey opinions through oral communication, role-play, or performances
- Apply specific guidelines to evaluate content and strategies in listening, speaking, and viewing assignments
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Mathematics
All students will be actively engaged in developing mathematical understandings in real and relevant contexts. By the end of the 6th grade, students will be able to:
- Understand the four arithmetic operations as they relate to positive rational numbers
- Compute with and convert between different forms of positive rational numbers
- Understand the concepts of ratio and proportion, and solve problems using proportional reasoning
- Understand and use line and rotational symmetry
- Determine the surface area and volume of solid figures
- Use variables to represent unknown quantities in formulae, algebraic expressions, and equations
- Utilize data to make predications
- Determine the probability of a given event
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Science
Sixth grade students will employ inquiry, research, and investigation to study Earth Science. By the end of the 6th grade, students will be able to:
- Collect, use, and analyze scientific data related to the earth's processes
- Use different models to represent systems such as the solar system and the sun/moon/earth system
- Record observations about the earth's materials and use these observations as the basis for inferences about the formation of the earth
- Describe observations and report information in graphical form about the earth's processes
- Recognize relationships between simple charts and graphs and develop strategies for interpreting findings about the earth's processes
- Replicate investigations related to the earth's processes and compare and contrast different results
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Social Studies
Sixth grade students will study the history, geography, political structures, and economics of Latin America and Canada, Europe, Australia and Oceania. By the end of the 6th grade, students will be able to:
- Identify and explain significant historical developments leading to and of 20th & 21st century Latin America and Canada, Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Explain the impact of location, climate, physical characteristics, natural resources, and population size of these regions of the modern world
- Describe the cultural characteristics of Latin America and Canada, Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Describe the impact of governmental policies and individual behaviors on these regions of the modern world
- Describe different economic systems and economic policies as they relate to these regions of the modern world
- Explain concepts of personal money management
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Assessment
- Throughout the year, classroom teachers will assess each student's growth and progress toward achievement of the learning goals specified in the state curriculum (GPS or QCC if GPS has not been implemented).
- These classroom assessments will be used to guide instruction in order to provide every child with the opportunity to learn and to succeed.
- Students will be made aware of the performance expectations for 6th grade and will acquire self-monitoring and self-assessing skills to help them maximize their achievement.
- In the spring, Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies will be administered to 6th graders in order to provide a standardized measure of student learning.
- Beginning in the year the Georgia Performance Standards are implemented for a content area, the CRCT will directly align with those GPS
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