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6th Grade Science Fair Projects

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Ideas for 6th-grade science fair projects can be a challenge to conceive. Projects need to be sophisticated and elaborate enough to show complex thinking but not so complex that they would be impossible for a sixth-grader to execute. These are topics and experiments suitable for upper-grade school or entry-level middle school.

General Project Ideas

The ideas in this section and the following one are phrased as questions because that is generally how schools require sixth-grade students to announce their projects, as a question, or hypothesis , to be tested and answered.

More Complex Projects

The projects in this section tend to be slightly more complex than those suggested in the previous section. They are still appropriate for sixth-grade science fair projects but may take more steps and/or time to execute.

Tips and Hints

By the sixth grade , students should have a good understanding of the steps of the scientific method . The best science fair project ideas will be ones with a hypothesis that is tested by an experiment. Then, the student decides whether to accept or reject the hypothesis and draws a conclusion. This is also a good grade level for presenting data in graphs and charts.

Parents and teachers need to understand that sixth-graders still need help with ideas, especially finding ideas that use materials that are readily available and that can be completed within the allotted time frame. One way to come up with a good idea is to look around the house and find topics a sixth-grader may have questions about. Brainstorm these questions and find ones that can be written as a testable hypothesis.

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Monday, October 4th: Potential and Kinetic Energy Cornell Notes

Tuesday, october 5th: potential/kinetic energy webquest, wednesday, october 6th: potential/kinetic energy lab, thursday, october 7th: weekly quiz 8, friday, october 8th: forms of energy cornell notes, monday, october 11th - wednesday, october 13th: fall break, thursday, october 14th: energy conversions reading, friday, october 15th: energy conversions webquest, monday, october 18th: weekly quiz 9, tuesday, october 19th: we've got the power project overview, wednesday, october 20th: we've got the power: research work day, thursday, october 21st: we've got the power: rough draft work day, friday: october 22nd: we've got the power: final draft work day, monday: october 25th: law of conservation of energy reading, tuesday: october 26th: law of conservation of energy practice, wednesday, october 27th: study island energy transformations , thursday, october 28th: weekly quiz 10, friday, october 29th: bill nye the science guy - energy, monday, november 1, 2010: unit test preparation day #1, tuesday, november 4th: energy swat review game, wednesday, november 3rd: jeopardy review game, thursday, november 4th: energy unit test, friday, november 5th: 6th grade field trip.

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Grade 6 Physical Science

Energy in earth systems.

Written By: Kim Castagna Jennifer Foster Meagan Callahan Tracy Schifferns

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Introduction: This Grade 6 Physical Science Unit focuses on energy in earth systems and addresses the California Science Standards for 6th grade for the topic of energy in Earth systems and Investigation and Experimentation Standards. By the end of the unit students know that the sun is the major source of energy for earth systems. Solar energy reaches the Earth as radiation in the form of visible light. Convection currents distribute the sun’s heat in the atmosphere and oceans. Heat is transferred in Earth solids by conduction. Energy can be carried from one place to another by heat flow, waves including water, light, sound or by moving objects. Energy is transferred and transformed between different forms of energy. Applications of energy doing work include experiences with windmills, water wheels, heat from a peanut, solar powered batteries and balloons.

Concepts about Energy in Earth Systems are used throughout the following grade six Earth Science Units: Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, and Weathering and Erosion. Energy provides the force to change the surface of the Earth through weathering and erosion. Interior energy (heat) provides the force to move and change Earth materials below the surface. The interior convection currents change the surface of the Earth through Earthquakes and Volcanoes as well as the Plate Tectonic movement.

The Grade 6 Physical Science Unit on Energy in Earth Systems is presented to students through a series of investigations using indirect evidence (models) and direct evidence, experiments, active learning experiences, researching using a variety of sources, questions, and assessments. Assessments include: pre-, post and one formative assessment.

Conceptual Flow Narrative: The Grade 6 Conceptual Flow Narrative for Physical Science: Energy in Earth Systems builds on the concepts presented on the conceptual flow graphic by describing the concept(s) addressed in each lesson and the links that connect each lesson to the next. Lessons are linked to the previous lesson and the lesson that follows via a conceptual storyline enabling the development of student understanding as they progress from one concept to the next.

After students have completed the Pre-Assessment, they begin their exploration of Energy with Lesson 1 “Forms of Energy” . Forms of Energy is an introduction to the many forms of energy that can do work. Energy station materials are explored and discussed to clarify characteristics of each form of energy. This lesson links to the next lesson, which further classifies energy into potential and kinetic energy.

During the previous lesson, students learned that there are multiple forms of energy. Lesson 2 “Potential and Kinetic Energy” continues the exploration of energy by using observations collected in the first lesson and identifying characteristics of potential energy (stored energy or the ability to do work) and kinetic energy (energy in motion). The transfer and transformation between forms of energy is explored in the next lesson.

Lesson 3, “Energy Transfer & Transformation,” links to the previous lesson by providing applications that transfer and transform energy to another form to complete a task. The Rube Goldberg designs challenge students to explain changes that stay in the same form of energy (transfer) and changes that change energy to another form (transform). During the next lesson, explanations for the sun’s transfer and transformation of solar energy is explored.

Having learned that energy is transferred and transformed in the previous lessons, Lesson 4 “Thermal Energy Flow in Materials” begins with an investigation that measures how materials are heated using radiant energy (light) from the sun. Two additional demonstrations provide examples of how heat continues to flow through other Earth materials such as air and liquids. Another investigation explores how different materials transfer heat by conduction at different rates.

Differences in how thermal energy flows in materials (uneven heating) causes wind on Earth. Wind energy can be harnessed to do work. During Lesson 5 “Wind Energy” experiments with windmills transfers wind energy to mechanical energy providing forces to turn windmills. In the next lesson, students learn the energy from the force of moving water can be used to do work.

Moving water provides the force to move a water wheel in Lesson 6 “Energy from Water Wheels” . The water wheel is like the windmill in previous lesson and both can transfer or transform energy to another form to do work. Examples include providing energy for turbines to generate electricity or lifting heavy objects. In the next lesson, students learn energy from food provides heat for fuel for humans.

Lesson 7, “Peanut Energy” explores how peanuts store energy that transforms to heat energy when burned. The energy of the peanut (foods) can be transformed into energy used by living things to function and stay alive.

Lessons 1-7 develop conceptual understanding of transfer and transformation of energy in Earth systems. The formative assessment #1 assesses student understanding of the multiple ways energy can be transferred and transformed.

In “Formative Assessment #1″ , students design a logical series of transfer and transformation using pictures of a variety of forms of energy. Evidence from the assessment indicates the understanding of transfer and transformation possibilities.

Energy that is transferred or transformed starts with a source. Lesson 8 “Solar Energy” introduces a comparison of sources of energy for batteries. Solar batteries use the sun as a source for energy. Chemical batteries use chemical reactions as a source for energy. This links to the next lesson that explores renewable and non-renewable sources for energy.

Lesson 9 “Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources” summarizes that all energy has a source. Renewable sources replenish within a lifetime. Non-renewable energy sources are not replenished within a lifetime. Benefits and drawbacks of different sources are explored.

Upon completion of the eight lessons, students take a Post-Assessment to determine their overall understanding of the concepts presented in the unit.

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Learn about genes, learn how some traits are transmitted from generation to generation.

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