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Grade 6
Scientific Reasoning
FOSS Scientific Reasoning Strand
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley
http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/FOSS/FOSS.SciReas.Strand.matrix.html

Environment
Ecology
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Science/Ecology/Ecology.html

Earth/Space Systems
Astronomy
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Science/Astronomy/Astronomy.html

Photosynthesis
What Is Photosynthesis?
University of Arizona: Center for the Study of the Early Events in Photosynthesis
http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html

Environmental Microbiology: Experiments for Middle and High School
Christine L. Case, Skyline College
http://www.smcccd.cc.ca.us/smcccd/faculty/case/envmic/winogradsky.html#answer

Interrelationships in Earth/Space Systems
How Much Would You Weigh On Distant Planets?
NASA/MSU-Bozeman CERES Project
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/weight1.htm

Life Science
Cells
Plant Cell Components
Brigham Young University
http://bioag.byu.edu/aghort/aghort100/plcell.htm

Advertising for Cells' Organelles
Grace Lisenby, Carroll Junior High School, South Lake, TX
http://www.teachersfirst.com/winners/cellparts.htm

Photosynthesis
What Is Photosynthesis?
University of Arizona: Center for the Study of the Early Events in Photosynthesis
http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html

Environmental Microbiology: Experiments for Middle and High School
Christine L. Case, Skyline College
http://www.smcccd.cc.ca.us/smcccd/faculty/case/envmic/winogradsky.html#answer

Ecosystems
Desert Ecosystems Resource Page
Arizona State University
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~jimbo/desert_ecology/Desert_Module.html

Ecosystems
David J. Bogler, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~bogler/ecology/ecosystems.html

Phototropism
Phototropism Example
Ed Byrnes, Kensington Academy Science
http://www.oakland.edu/~eabyrnes/phototropism.html

Finding the Light
Indiana University Biology
http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/Phototropism/phototrop.html

Hibernation
Box Turtle Habitat
With the Grain, Mattawan, Michigan
http://www.wtgrain.org/turtle/w3nsnow.htm

Eutrophication
EUTROPHICATION: A Lesson in Environmental Science
Eric Coady, University of West Florida
http://www.uwf.edu/~coehelp/id97/eciady/eutrophi.htm

DNA
A Science Odyssey: DNA Workshop
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/index.html

QUIZZES: Life Sciences and DNA
Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.ee.suffolk.edu/sci301/Quiz_Life_Sci.htm

Spiders, The Scientific Method, Classification System, Cells, Microscopes
http://www.njsd.org/curric/Science/science7.html

Physical Science
International System of of Units
The International System of Units
Frank Wolfs, Rochester
http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixA/AppendixA.html

Periodic Table
Web Elements
Mark Winter, University of Sheffield, England
http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/index.html

Reflection/Refraction
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
SparTech Software
http://www.flash.net/~spartech/ReekoScience/refraction.htm

Electromagnetic Spectrum
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Bill Blair, Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
http://praxis.pha.jhu.edu/science/emspec.html

Electromagnetic Spectrum
Brian M. Tissue, Science Hypermedia, Inc.
http://www.scimedia.com/chem-ed/light/em-spec.htm

Chemical Changes
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
Steel Wool Generating Heat
http://www.flash.net/~spartech/ReekoScience/ExpSteelWoolGeneratingHeat.htm

Sound
A Homemade Hearing Aid
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
http://www.flash.net/~spartech/ReekoScience/ExpHearingAid.htm

Good, Good, Good, Vibrations
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab http://www.flash.net/~spartech/ReekoScience/ExpGoodVibrations.htm

Have You Lost Your Marbles?
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
http://www.flash.net/~spartech/ReekoScience/ExpSoundWaves.htm

Potential and Kinetic Energy

Mechanical/chemical/electrical energy

Freezing Point/Boiling Point/Melting Point

Absolute Zero
Nuclear reaction (fusion and fission)
Physical changes

Earth Science

Maps
Earth from Space
NASA
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

EarthRISE
http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/

Geography from Space
http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/GAW/GFSintro.html

The World Factbook of Geological Data
Central Intelligence Agency
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Maps on Us
http://www.mapsonus.com/

Star Charts
Star Charts For Northern Hemisphere
University of North Florida
http://www.unf.edu/faculty/lkmao/astronomy/skies/star-charts.html

Down Under Star Charts
The Astronomical Society for South Australia
http://www.assa.org.au/starcharts.html

Direction measurement/Distance measurement on Globe
Plate tectonics
water (all three states)
Position of Earth in solar system
Minerals
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Fossil fuels, minerals, rocks, water, and vegetation
Virginia's resources
Physiographic provinces of Virginia
Coastal Plain
Piedmont
Blue Ridge
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
faulting, folding, volcanism, metamorphism, weathering, erosion, deposition, sedimentation
Tectonic processes
Soil Development
Karst topography
Groundwater zones (water table, zone of saturation, zone of aeration
Tides, waves, currents, sea level, ice cap variations, upwelling, salinity concentrations
Features of the sea floor (continental margins, trenches, mis-ocean ridges, abyssal plains
Public policy issues concerning the oceans
Atmosphere Weather
Solar System
Space program
Big Bang

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Science/Earth_Sciences/Earth_Sciences.html

Biology