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Link to 6th Grade Homework

General Information and Useful Websites for
6th Grade Science:

Science Text Resources- Middle School FOSS
•    Human Brain and Senses --1st quarter
•    Young Inventors' Fair Curriculum--2nd quarter
•    Chemical Interactions --3rd quarter
•    Force and Motion --4th quarter

FOSS Internet Resource
Go to:
www.fossweb.com  http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/kit_multimedia/login.php?request=/modulesMS/kit_multimedia/ChemicalInteractions/

(Students need to get a username and password from me in class.  E-mail me if you do not know username and password.)

Click on Enter the Program
Click on Continue
After you are into the program, you can choose activities or you can use the Teachers Guide. 

Projects
•    Inventions--start in October; complete during the second trimester (6-8 weeks)
•    Challenge labs-- (1-2 weeks)
•    Keep the Heat devices 
•    Bubble Wrap or Rubber Band,  Egg drop
•    Creative vehicles (time permitting)

Lab Participation Rubric

Useful Web Links for Sixth Grade Science

Are you curious about the Invention Unit that begins nextquarter? 

Go to InventionUnit Grade 6--Cope It's a Google site

Find more memory tests!
http://www.kidsmemory.com/

Science of MUSIC
http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/

Optical Illusions (from National Institute of Environmental Health)
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/illusion/illusions.htm

FOSS Science Web Link
www.fossweb.com

Roller Coasters
http://www.funderstanding.com/coaster

Simpler roller coaster
http://sodaplay.com/creators/kingsolomon/items/looprollercoaster2

More Roller Coasters
http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster/section1.html

Speed and Acceleration
http://www.fearofphysics.com/Xva/xva.html

Young Inventors Fair:
http://www.successbeyond.org/YIF.htm

Inventions with bubblewrap
http://www.nmoe.org/bubblewrap/




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