6th Grade Science Guide
Unit 4 6.3 Weather & Climate 3 Dimensions & Progressions
by the Greenhouse Effect. ● Students create a model of the Greenhouse Effect.
Activity: How the Earth Traps Heat Reading & Lab
Objective
Overview
Materials
● Close Read the article “How Earth Traps Heat” on Newsela. ● lab
● I understand how the greenhouse effect allows life on Earth to exist. ● I understand that trapping too many greenhouse gasses can lead to temperature increases.
● Students Close read an article about Greenhouse gasses, and how it makes life on Earth possible. Students participate in a lab where they create
their own “greenhouse” effect and monitor how greenhouse gasses lead to temperature increase.
Multiple Choice Assessment: 6.3.4 Formative Assessment
Phenomena Assessment: Weather Padtterns are Different Across the Country
Objective
Overview
Materials
● I can use evidence from the unit to describe why there are different weather patterns occurring across the country. ● I can use terms like Jet
● Students write a CER to explain how weather is changed by warm and cold ocean temperatures that lead to fronts through the jet stream creating weather patterns.
● Google Slide Presentation ● CER resources
Stream, Cold Front, Warm Front, etc. to describe weather patterns.
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