6th Grade Resources

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

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

Experience a side-splitting video parody that imagines a calamitous weather forecast. Prepare to be entertained as students witness what happens...

In this video, viewers will learn about how Lord Kelvin attempted to determine the age of the Earth, as well as why the Earth becomes warmer as...

This is a wonderful short documentary about the life of President George Washington. It explains elements of his childhood and life at Mount...

In this Earth Science lab, students will create their own homemade barometers using a canning jar, a balloon, and a straw. The barometers can show...

This is a great clip to help open a discussion about conflict or character vs. nature.

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

Generate equivalent expressions using two additive properties. This video focuses on using the associative and commutative properties of addition...

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 video discusses how temperatures in lakes affect the flow of the lake's ecosystem.

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

In this worksheet, students will tell the time by analyzing clock faces as well as drawing clock faces for digital time.  There are nine clocks. ...

In this worksheet, students will take everyday objects from the classroom and use balance scales to find the mass.  The students will first...

This volcano video demonstrates and discusses how composite and shield volcanoes are created and describes their lava type.  The Ring of Fire and...

This animated video discusses force and motion.  Inertia, Mass, Gravity, Force, Friction, Newtons, Energy are all discussed in this StudyJam film...

Steve Spangler does a great job presenting videos and experiments for kids.  Here is a video and his website.  In this video he demonstrates how...

This is an animated video about the states of matter from StudyJams.  They do an excellent job explaining the different states: solids, liquids,...

This is an activity-based reading log.

My idea behind this type of reading log is threefold.

1. Keep track of the books that...

Embark on a compelling video that sheds light on the physical and mental repercussions experienced by humans when struck by lightning....

This "Its OK to be Smart" video discusses why our bodies feel cold.  Students will learn that it is all about heat transfer.  The video will...

Here is a quick video about the narwhal.

There are many misconceptions about evolution.  This TEDed video discusses those misconceptions.

This website allows students and teachers to visually explore fractions and how they relate to mixed numbers, decimals and percents.  You can set...