- Legend Springs Elementary
- Science
6th Grade Science

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There are 5 Core Science Units:
- Matter
- Force, Motion, and Astronomy
- Astronomy and the Earth, Sun, and Moon System
- Ecology
- Positive and Negative Human Impact on the Environment and Species
Students will engage in many science and engineering practices:
- asking questions and defining problems
- developing and using models (both conceptual and physical)
- planning and carrying out investigations
- analyzing and interpreting data
- using mathematics and computational thinking
- constructing explanations and design solutions
- engaging in argument from evidence
- obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Instruction will bridge boundaries between science and other disciplines and connect core ideas and practices throughout the fields of study:
- patterns
- cause and effect
- structure and function
- systems and system models
- stability and change
- scale, proportion, and quantity
- energy and matter