6th Grade Resources

This is a great video to examine how a lightning bolt is formed and travels.

Honeybees create their honey-cone out of hexagons.  Why is this?  This video demonstrates how bees use math to maximize space and energy.

Have you ever wondered whether or not ketchup was considered a liquid or a solid.  After all it can take a lot to get ketchup out of a bottle. ...

This is a great clip to open a discussion about conflict or character vs. self using Toy Story.

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This is a fun video to help introduce or review the Presidents of the United States.

This video is a great attention grabber for learning  global geography, it names all of the nations of the world in a fun song....

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

In this reading activity designed for 3rd graders, students will read a couple of paragraphs with 19 missing words.  Students have a word list...

Here is a gross video that your students may like to see.  What are the healthy and financial benefits of eating insects?  This video discusses...

This is a great video overview with interesting facts about Harry S. Truman, produced by Disney. Includes items like the atomic bomb, Japanese...

This is a great video to show during your unit on adaptations and evolutionary changes.  This video demonstrates how sharks have evolved over time...

This is a great video that explores the life, events, and death of President Abraham Lincoln., including the Lincoln Douglas Debates, the...

Engage your students in a thoughtful exploration of friendship with this comprehensive worksheet. Designed to develop their writing skills and...

Analyze the character traits of different types of animated dogs in Pixar's "Dug's Special Mission."  Students will love this discussion.

This is a great video to help introduce using text eveidence to answer inferential questions. It also demonstrates the difference between literal...

Have you ever wondered what those packets that say "don't eat" on them?  You know those packets found in shoe boxes, jerky packages, and leather...

In this 4 day lab, students will become very familiar with the procedures involved in identifying minerals.

Day 1: Students will learn...

This is a simple number line make that allows teachers to generate custom number lines  Below are some examples of number lines that can be...

This is a 15 word blank spelling test paper handout.

This scientific video from BBC is really neat.  It shows a few different types of fish that use luminescence to attract prey and obtain their food...

This worksheet is a scavenger hunt that students can use to learn and relearn the knowledge of expository text features.  In the worksheet,...

I use this money word problem worksheet as a relay.  Students get one card out of a stack of word problems that I laminate.  They then rush with a...

This NASA video describes what the sun is and what it is made out of. 
Part of the discussion is about sun spots and solar flares.  They do...