This unit will focus on weather.  Students will explore what weather is, how weather is measured and how weather impacts living things.

In this 2 week module, students will focus on characters within a story, figurative language and word relationships, and writing an informative essay. They will learn how authors can use different types of language to give the reader a better understanding of that character's traits. Before beginning this module, students should have a basic understanding of character traits and the different types of language authors can use. Prior to beginning the module, students should have read Phineas L. McGuire Gets Slimed by Frances O'Roark Dowell.

This unit emphasizes the diaspora of human history.

Sixth graders are by nature a myopic people, and constantly in danger of not examining their own assumptions. Teaching large scale human history as a beginning to a closer study of culture, movement patterns and events allows students to understand the miraculous conditions that allowed humans to flourish. The perspective we take in this unit also challenges students to consider that the choices we make always provide a set of positive and negative consequences. In past pedagogy, the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture was taught as the catalyst of human progress. While that is not entirely wrong, it limits students' thinking by not considering the things we lost with this "opportunity cost."

In keeping with the new geography-heavy 2015 standards, this unit begins with a role-playing simulation that asks students to learn specific biomes to imagine they are plopped down in a certain region of the world, with nothing but a basic tool kit (no clothing, food, or shelter!). Right away students understand the complexity of early survival and the interrelationship with the environment. Then, building on the interpretive skills they learned in Unit one, student examine cave paintings to hypothesis lifestyle choices and necessities for early paleolithic peoples. Students recall the mapping skills learned in Unit One to get a visual perspective of the human diaspora in the next lesson, which maps the migration out of Africa, and sets the stage to understanding the next big topic: shifting from hunting and gathering to an agrarian way of life. But first, students will culminate their learning of early humans in an analysis of the issue of who gets the rights to study Kennewick man's remains.

**From the new AAPS 6th grade curriculum; written by Rachel Toon for ATLAS

Using this resource, students explore the topics of genetics and medical/pharmaceutical biotechnology through a real world simulation. Students use hands on, inquiry based lessons to explore this emerging field of science. Students will discover and apply their knowledge of genetics, heredity, DNA, dominant and recessive traits, Mendel's laws, punnett squares and more to understand current and future uses of biotechnology.

A teacher's guide to Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Includes common core aligned pre-reading promts, discussion questions, post-reading promts and writing activities.

In this investigation, students will look at a number of videos, animations, and images in order to gain a better understanding of how hurricanes work. In the first part, students will learn about some of the satellites that researchers use to study and make forecasts about hurricanes. Then students will get a chance to look "under the hood" of a hurricane to see how these storms develop.

In this unit students will learn about hurricane season and patterns of hurricanes.

In this instructional module, students will learn about hurricanes and how they form. They will also investigate the factors that influence strength and intensity of hurricanes and how warm ocean waters fuel them.

This is a unit of study whose competency is to Manage student project-based learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment to support collaboration.

In this lesson, students will identify the literary elements of plot, theme, and character in a work and use indirect characterization and psychoanalytic criticism to analyze a character and explain how the character contributes to plot and theme. Final assessment inclues an analytical essay.

Students identifiy the various socialization agents that, through various stages of an individual's life, influence their behavior patterns.

A unit of study where teachers will help learners complete a tutorial, brainstorm a list of possible project ideas for a PBL project that includes gathering, processing and presenting information.
The purpose of this practical is to provide participants with clear directions so that they can design such a project.

This unit is designed for students to learn to make judgments and decisions based on facts, and to use informational and imaginative speech to present their personal viewpoint and opinion to others. Students experience, first hand, taxation without representation, and will develop a very real sense for the need to preserve the inherent freedoms of man. Using the American flag as a graphic organizer, students will develop a clear understanding of the actions and reactions of the American colonists to British rule and to our most important national holiday, the 4th of July. Historically significant events will be studied and organized through exploration of facts and opinions and interaction with informational text and class discussion.

Students collect data within their school about current social issues and create graphs to display and analyze the data. Students simultaneously read and write fables based on the prevalent social issues. Students then make 2D illustrations for their fables and practice reading their stories aloud with fluency. The culminating event is a Meet the Author showcase for parents to hear the stories and get autographs from the new authors.

This blended unit introduces students to linear inequalities and systems of inequalities. Students will algebraically and graphically verify solutions to linear inequalities and systems of linear inequalities.  Instruction and practice will be provided via Khan Academy.  As a capstone project, students will use linear programming to develop a diet plan for a celebrity; the diet plan requires students to research nutritional data and costs for two food products, while using linear programming to find the diet plan that satisfies the celebrity's daily nutritional needs at the lowest cost.

In this unit, students will choose topics that they already know about and will write an "All -About Book".

In this unit, students identify risks and protection strategies, describe basic types of insurance available to customers, and determine likely use cases. Students also describe the agencies that regulate insurance in one's state of residence.

This resource allows students to explore their creativity in the field of interior design. Identification of the elements and principles of design are emphasized. Other topics included are furniture arrangement basics, floor plan evaluation, area planning and careers.

Students will learn more about the Internet, Web Browsers, E-Mail, Online Information and much more as they complete the fourteen lessons provided on this web page.