6th Grade Science Guide

Unit 4 6.3 Weather & Climate 3 Dimensions & Progressions

○ Language Supports: ■ Nouns to introduce (absorb, refect, radiation, greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, fuorinated gasses, methane) ■ If/then clauses (if the amount of ____ increases, then _____., greenhouse gasses can lead to _______, etc.) ■ Verbs to demonstrate a claim (justify, claim, argue) ■ Sentences frames for support (The data suggest ____. The evidence seems to suggest that ______., etc.)

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

Skill Building

Close Read the article “How Earth Traps Heat” on Newsela. Use this lab to help students create their own “greenhouse” effect and monitor how greenhouse gasses lead to temperature increase. Students could further research different types of greenhouse gasses and how the increase in those greenhouse gasses has changed Earth’s climate. Students could use a fip grid or other technology to do a promo of why increasing greenhouse gasses might be harmful, and how we can reduce greenhouse emissions.

Extension

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

6.3.4 Formative Assessment

ELA CONNECTIONS ● Cite specifc textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts. ● Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. ● Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic. (MS-ESS2-5) ● Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.

MATH CONNECTIONS ● Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

● Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.