6th Grade Science
Welcome to 6th Grade Science!
Welcome to Mrs. Oglesby’s 6th grade science page! Here you will find class information, important dates, and links to help you navigate through class this year!
Your grades for assignments, tests, labs, and quizzes will be found on MySA!
Frequently Used Websites and Resources
Use the resources below to navigate the year and better prepare yourself for tests and the course itself.
Your Course Content by Unit
Unit I
Scientific Inquiry and Essential Science Skills
This week will be dedicated to discussing the scientific method, and the epistemological cycles that is built within it. The scientific method is built on a premise of observing the science of patterns, and making inferences from these observations.
Unit 2
Characteristics and
Classification of Living Things
Your task this week will be to review the scientific method while learning how to write as a scientist, how to describe scientific phenomena, and other essential skills necessary for a successful year in biology at St. Andrew’s.
Unit 3
Cellular Structure and Function
This week will focus on essential concepts of inorganic chemistry and how those concepts relate to the chemistry of life. You will also review how to read and analyze the periodic table of the elements, and how those elements bond in multiple ways.
Unit 4
Genetics
This week will review the properties of water and describe the fundamentals associated with the four major classes of biological macromolecules.
Unit 5
Ecology
After a healthy discussion on the structure and function of enzymes, we will focus on the roles enzymes within our bodies, and how enzymes catalyze biochemical reactions.
Unit 6
Composition and Organization of Matter
After five weeks of essential introductory concepts to biology, this week will focusing on connecting the dots among concepts and ensuring everyone is prepared to continue.
Unit 7
Chemistry of Life
Beginning at the cellular level first requires us to discuss the characteristics of life. After that, we’ll begin identifying characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, discuss which kingdoms are composed of each, describe advantages each have, review organelles, and discuss the function of systems found within each.
Unit 8
Chemical bonding and Reactions
Once you know the characteristics of a cell, you can now learn how materials move within and between cells. We’ll describe the differences between passive and active transport (e.g. molecular, endocytosis, & exocytosis ), define diffusion, osmosis, and osmoregulation, and compare isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic solutions.
Unit 9
The Universe
Weeks 7 & 8 begin our broader discussion of life in biology, and this week connects essential points between those weeks while identifying how both unicellular and multicellular organisms go about maintaining life through homeostasis. We’ll finish out the week identifying the levels of organization in multicellular organisms.
Unit 10
Earth/Sun/Moon
After another 5 weeks, this week will focus on ensuring that you are connecting concepts over these past weeks with points from the beginning of the semester.
Unit 11
Earth as a System
As a process that ultimately serves as the number one source of oxygen in the atmosphere, we’ll discuss the big picture of how photosynthesis occurs.
Unit 12
After last week, you should know how photosynthesis works. This week will focus on the details. At the end, you will know the mechanisms that make it happen.