5x5 Vocabulary Challenge

Science Vocabulary

Can edit the bank to fit your class needs.

Students will put up to 15 words randomly in the 5x5 grid.

Challenge: Make a sentence using each word in row 1. Challenge students to make sentences for each row and column in the 5x5 grid.

Can be done collaboratively, or individual. Nice to mix it up!

To add technology, have students find a resource or picture or article that supports their sentences.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 6th grade Science content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

In this activity, students learn about this silicon-based solid with a sponge-like structure, and also learn about density, and how aerogel is 99.8% air by volume, making it the lightest solid known to humans! Further, students learn about basic heat transfer and how aerogel is a great thermal insulator, having 39 times more insulation than the best fiberglass insulation, and about the wide array of aerogel applications.

Students in small groups will determine the density of various balls and predict their ability to float or sink.

Students will be able to explain, on the molecular level, how a gas dissolves in water. They will also be able to explain why the gas comes out of solution faster in warm water than in cold water.

This resource is a demo that accompanies the lesson, "Can Gases Dissolve in Water?"

Students will place isopropyl alcohol, mineral oil and corn syrup in water to see if any of these liquids dissolve in water. Students will extend their understanding and definition of "dissolving" and see that certain, but not all liquids can dissolve in water.

In this lesson, students use modeling clay to make boats that float in a tub of water. The object is to build boats that hold as much weight as possible without sinking. In the process of designing and testing their prototype creations, students discover some of the basic principles of boat design, gain first-hand experience with concepts such as buoyancy and density, and experience the steps of the engineering design process.

This video illustrates how density is calculated and describes how the density of water can be used for comparison of density of other substances.

Students are introduced to the concept of density. They calculate the volume of various materials to determine and then rank their densities.

In this lab activity, students investigate differences in ocean water density. Students record density data from salt, ice, and hot water samples in their notebooks. Students then simulate ocean water temperature levels in a graduated cylinder, extending density knowledge by introducing oil as a pollutant.

Students experiment with density by placing different substances and objects into empty pill bottles and placing them into water.

Students will develop experimentally procedures in which they compare the density of a whole candy bar to half or quarter of that same candy bar. Students will complete a lab report detailing their procedures, results, and conclusions.

In this interactive activity, students will measure the volume and mass of various mateials and calculate their densities based on those measurements.

Students practice calculating density using mass and volume data. They will also plot the mass and volume and analyze the resulting line in order to graphically analyze density.

This video illustrates how density is calculated and describes how the density of water can be used for comparison of density of other substances.

The purpose of this lab is to measure the density of materials which are thought to make up the crust, mantle, and core. Students will determine the mass and volume of several rock samples and then use the data to calculate density and make inferences about the densities of earth materials.

In this demonstration students will observe ice cubes floating on cooking oil, and observe what happens to the liquid water produced as the ice melts, and the density changes. Several associated surface tension phenomena may be observed as part of the demonstration.

Students measure the volume and mass of water to determine its density. Then they measure the mass of different volumes of water and discover that the density is always the same. Students make a graph of the relationship between the volume and the mass of water.