Variety+of+Life+Outline

Gr.6 Science
 * __ “Variety of Life” Objectives __**

1) **Explore Life! – page 4** - to explore and ask questions about living things and where they are found, outer space? To list the 5 W’s of the “Golden Record”.

1B) The 6 Steps to a Scientific Inquiry OR Lab Write-up – page 5 - to list and explain the meaning of the 6 steps in a lab write-up.

2) **What Makes Up the Variety of Life Around You? – pages 6-7** - to identify living and non-living things and to record and observe living things in their own habitat/environment.

2B) Is a Robot a Living Thing? – pages 8-9. Check carefully matching the five “**characteristics**” that make something ALIVE!

3) **How are Living Things Suited to Their Environment? - pages 10-13** - to identify and compare how different living things adapt to their environment.

4) **How Can We Make Sense of Life’s Variety?- pages 14-17** - to identify different ways to classify living things and use a “tree diagram” to show a classification system.

5) **What Group of Organisms Is the Most Numerous?- pages 18-21** - to explore the diverse world of “arthropods”

= Quiz on Lessons 1-5 ( Tues Nov. 1) =

6) **What Makes Insects Different From Other Arthropods? - p.22-25** - to compare insects to other arthropods and to investigate your own arthropod. 7) **How Do Other Animals Compare With Arthropods? – p. 26-29** - to classify animals as VERTEBRATE or INVERTEBRATE by comparing animal structures.

8) **What Systems Do Scientists Use to Classify Animals?- p.30-33** - to discover the system that scientists use to classify living things: Kingdom-->Phylum-->Class-->Order-->Family-->Genus-->Species

9) **What Other Kinds of Organisms Are There?- p.34-37** - to investigate and classify organisms that are too small to see and use a “microscope” to identify these organisms. 10) **How Do Micro-organisms Meet Their Needs? p. 38-41** - to explore ways that micro-organisms meet their basic needs, and investigate how these organisms affect our lives and lifestyles. - to design a fair test to check factors that affect the growth of micro-organisms.

= QUIZ on Lessons 6-10 = = = 11)**How Do Members of the Same Species Vary? p. 42- 45** - to investigate structural features of organisms and their environment 12) **How Do We Know About Life in the Past? p. 46-49** - to investigate fossils as a way to examine life in the past and to identify “paleontologists”.

= TEST on all Lessons and Unit Project Due =