Science
The Ontario grade 6 science curriculum focuses on Earth and Space, Life Systems, and Matter and Energy. Students learn to develop scientific inquiry skills, including asking questions, gathering data, and analyzing findings. Key topics include understanding the structure of the solar system, exploring the characteristics of living things, and investigating the properties of matter and energy.
Core strands in the Grade 6 Ontario science curriculum:
Earth and Space Systems: This strand often involves the study of the solar system, the characteristics of different planets, and other celestial bodies.
Life Systems: Students learn about the structure and function of living things, as well as the relationships between organisms and their environments.
Matter and Energy: This strand focuses on the properties of matter and energy, including the relationships between particle motion, energy, and the states of matter. It may also include classifying elements based on their properties.
Key skills developed:
Inquiry and skills: Students are taught to ask testable questions, conduct experiments, and analyze and interpret data.
Scientific reasoning: Students learn to communicate their findings using scientific reasoning and a variety of tools and methods.
Lab skills: Students gain experience with scientific tools, measurement techniques, and lab safety procedures.
Grad 6 English
Students enhance their reading, writing, and oral communication skills. They engage with various texts, develop comprehension strategies, and practice writing for different purposes and audiences.
Oral Communication
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Listen to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
2. Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;
3. Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
Reading
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
2. Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
3. Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
Writing
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
2. Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
3. Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
Media Literacy
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
2. Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
3. Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Oral Communication
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Listen to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
2. Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;
3. Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
Reading
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
2. Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
3. Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
Writing
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
2. Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
3. Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
Media Literacy
Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 6, students will:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
2. Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
3. Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.