Description

Ontario Grade 6 Science Units

Teach Grade 6 science without building it from scratch. Choose the unit you need from the list: each one is a complete, inquiry-based unit aligned to the Ontario Grade 6 Science and Technology curriculum, with lesson plans, activities and assessments ready to go.

Use a unit as your full plan for that strand, as extra material alongside your own lessons, or as review before an assessment.

Biodiversity

Strand: Understanding Life Systems

Students explore how all living things are connected, classify animals, and investigate threats to biodiversity such as climate change, pollution and habitat loss.

What’s included

• Easy-to-follow lesson plans with prep, assessment opportunities and IEP/ELL accommodation suggestions
• Background notes for the teacher
• Wonder Wall to guide student questions
• Knowledge-building circles
• Escape-room learning games and role play
• Curated, student-friendly research links
• Animal classification escape game
• Greenhouse gas experiment
• Student-choice inquiry project on a threat to biodiversity

Why teachers use it

• Saves you hours of lesson planning and prep
• Ready to teach: every lesson is laid out for you
• Keeps students engaged through hands-on inquiry
• Built-in assessments to track student progress
• Aligned to the Ontario Grade 6 Science and Technology curriculum

Flight

Strand: Understanding Structures and Mechanisms

Students explore the properties of air, the four forces of flight, flight in nature and the history of flight, then investigate how flight technology affects daily life.

What’s included

• 12 lessons, each with a detailed plan, prep list, activity pages and answer keys
• Hands-on experiments on the properties of air
• Animals in flight cross-curricular activity
• Formative and summative assessments with a learning goal tracker and rubrics
• Culminating inquiry project

Why teachers use it

• Saves you hours of lesson planning and prep
• Ready to teach: every lesson is laid out for you
• Keeps students engaged through hands-on inquiry
• Built-in assessments to track student progress
• Aligned to the Ontario Grade 6 Science and Technology curriculum

Electricity and Electrical Devices

Strand: Understanding Matter and Energy

Students learn how electricity is generated, build series and parallel circuits, run static and current electricity experiments, and complete an energy audit.

What’s included

• Wonder Wall inquiry board with photos and activity cards
• Interactive notebooks and knowledge-building circles
• Experiments, task cards and games
• Assessment materials
• Teacher guides for every lesson
• Inquiry project

Why teachers use it

• Saves you hours of lesson planning and prep
• Ready to teach: every lesson is laid out for you
• Keeps students engaged through hands-on inquiry
• Built-in assessments to track student progress
• Aligned to the Ontario Grade 6 Science and Technology curriculum

Space

Strand: Understanding Earth and Space Systems

Students explore the solar system, comets and asteroids, moon phases and tides, technology in space and Canada’s history in space.

What’s included

• 12 lessons, each with a detailed plan, prep list, activity pages and answer keys
• Human-scale solar system model and sundial activity
• Moon phases, eclipse and tides centres
• Can We Live Here? debate
• Formative and summative assessments with rubrics
• Two culminating inquiry project options

Why teachers use it

• Saves you hours of lesson planning and prep
• Ready to teach: every lesson is laid out for you
• Keeps students engaged through hands-on inquiry
• Built-in assessments to track student progress
• Aligned to the Ontario Grade 6 Science and Technology curriculum

Want all 4 units?

The Ignited Teaching membership includes every Grade 6 science unit, plus every other subject and grade from 3 to 6. See membership options →