6th Grade Resources

Introducing the Cell Phone Writing Passages and Prompt - a fun and engaging way for students of all ages to practice their opinion writing skills...

Exploring Earth's Magnetic Magic: Reading Passage and Experiment

Overview: This resource...

Here is a website that shows the periodic table of elements.  What is unique about it, is that for each element there is a linked video file...

In this assignment, students will open up a Google Doc, you can have it printed as well, and fill out a table of some very useful industrial ores...

Discover the Fascinating Tales of Skip the Squirrel: Three Engaging Perspectives

Step into the enchanting world of Skip, a charming...

Bill Nye said about the Joy of Discovery is awesome.  It is the joy of discovery that makes every human being a scientist.  We explore, test,...

This science reading product was created to teach my students the importance of reading instructions, reading technical instructions, and of...

This is a great clip to open a discussion about conflict or character vs. character.  Harry Potter vs. Volermort

This video is going to be hilarious to show your students?  The joke, "Silent but Violent" when referring to gas or farts is the basis of the...

Learn about the incredible adaptations of butterflies in this fascinating video. Discover how these beautiful creatures have evolved to protect...

This is a great video to help introduce or review prepositions in grammar.

This educational video discusses why our bodies need water and answers how much we should drink every day.

This is a 5-minute video that does an excellent job talking about bats, their conservation, their feeding habits, their evolution, and their...

This 3rd-grade educational resource teaches students how to create a 1st person comic strip. Students will learn to use dialogue and illustrations...

Steve Spangler demonstrates the power behind friction using two notebooks.  This can also be done using your textbooks.  Variable to the...

Here is a fun poem created to show all of the elements on the periodic table.  Much of the poem demonstrates where the different names came from...

Here is a plate tectonic demonstration/lab idea for all grade levels.  You can easily use this video when teaching about earthquakes and plate...

I designed this 5 paragraph expository text writing organizer to help my 3rd graders have space to restate the prompt, come up with three big...

Watch and learn how bats transmit diseases and viruses and why so many bats carry viruses.

Demonstrate how magma is more buoyant than the surrounding earth material.  Volcanoes erupt simply because the melted rock rises up through cracks...

This is a visually appealing and dramatic video that introduces your students to the study of biomes.  This is a great video to show as you get...

This is a great video about the differences between a birds-eye and a human eye.  

This is an interactive digital glacier lab that will help students understand what glaciers are, what some of the formations and deposits look...

This video on evolution discusses the different lines of evidence that support the theory of evolution.  The discussion is around: comparative...