Arkansas State Standards for Science: Grade 6
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AR.1. Nature of Science: Characteristics and Processes of Science: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of the characteristics and processes of science using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
NS.1.6.1.
Processes of Science: Verify accuracy of observations
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Standard NS.1.6.1.
NS.1.6.2.
Processes of Science: Apply components of experimental design used to produce empirical evidence: hypothesis, replication, sample size, appropriate use of control, use of standardized variables
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Standard NS.1.6.2.
NS.1.6.3.
Processes of Science: Compare scientific data using mean, median, mode, and range using SI units
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Standard NS.1.6.3.
NS.1.6.4.
Processes of Science: Construct and interpret scientific data using data tables/charts, bar and double bar graphs, line graphs, stem and leaf plots, line graphs
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Standard NS.1.6.4.
NS.1.6.5.
Processes of Science: Communicate results and conclusions from scientific inquiry
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Standard NS.1.6.5.
NS.1.6.6.
Processes of Science: Develop and implement strategies for long-term, accurate data collection
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Standard NS.1.6.6.
NS.1.6.7.
Characteristics of Science: Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion
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Standard NS.1.6.7.
NS.1.6.8.
Characteristics of Science: Explain the role of prediction in the development of a theory
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Standard NS.1.6.8.
NS.1.6.9.
Characteristics of Science: Define and give examples of laws and theories
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Standard NS.1.6.9.
AR.2. Life Science: Living Systems: Characteristics, Structure, and Function: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of living systems using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
LS.2.6.1.
Structure and Function: Observe, describe, and illustrate plant and animal tissues: muscle, blood, skin, xylem, phloem
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Standard LS.2.6.1.
LS.2.6.2.
Structure and Function: Illustrate the hierarchical relationships of cells, tissues, and organs
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Standard LS.2.6.2.
LS.2.6.3.
Structure and Function: Investigate the functions of tissues
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Standard LS.2.6.3.
LS.2.6.4.
Structure and Function: Model and explain the functions of animal organs: heart, lung, kidneys, eyes, ears, skin, teeth
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Standard LS.2.6.4.
LS.2.6.5.
Structure and Function: Model and explain the function of plant organs: leaves, roots, stems, flowers
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Standard LS.2.6.5.
LS.2.6.6.
Structure and Function: Dissect organs, including but not limited to heart, eye, lung, stem, root
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Standard LS.2.6.6.
LS.2.6.7.
Structure and Function: Describe the relationship between organ function and the following needs of cells: oxygen, food, water, waste removal
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Standard LS.2.6.7.
LS.2.6.8.
Structure and Function: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to tissues and organs
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Standard LS.2.6.8.
AR.3. Life Science: Life Cycles, Reproduction, and Heredity: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of life cycles, reproduction, and heredity using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
LS.3.6.1.
Heredity and Reproduction: Describe characteristics of plants and animals manipulated through selective breeding
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Standard LS.3.6.1.
LS.3.6.2.
Heredity and Reproduction: Predict the outcome of selective breeding practices over several generations
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Standard LS.3.6.2.
LS.3.6.3.
Heredity and Reproduction: Relate the development of Earth's present-day complex species from earlier, distinctly different simpler species
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Standard LS.3.6.3.
LS.3.6.4.
Heredity and Reproduction: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to adaptations and selective breeding
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Standard LS.3.6.4.
LS.3.6.5.
Regulation and Behavior: Describe behavioral adaptations of organisms to the environment: hibernation, estivation, tropism, territorial behavior, migration
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Standard LS.3.6.5.
LS.3.6.6.
Regulation and Behavior: Differentiate between innate behaviors (migration, web spinning, defensive posture, communication, imprinting) and learned behaviors (speaking a language, using tools, hunting skills)
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Standard LS.3.6.6.
LS.3.6.7.
Regulation and Behavior: Describe the following structural adaptations for survival in the environment: coloration, mimicry, odor glands, beaks, feet, wings, fur, ears, spines, teeth, thorns, characteristics of seeds
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Standard LS.3.6.7.
LS.3.6.8.
Regulation and Behavior: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to learned and innate behaviors
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Standard LS.3.6.8.
AR.4. Life Science: Populations and Ecosystems: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of populations and ecosystems using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology.
LS.4.6.1.
Populations and Ecosystems: Identify environmental conditions that can affect the survival of individual organisms and entire species
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Standard LS.4.6.1.
LS.4.6.2.
Populations and Ecosystems: Conduct simulations demonstrating competition for resources within an ecosystem
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Standard LS.4.6.2.
LS.4.6.3.
Populations and Ecosystems: Conduct simulations demonstrating natural selection
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Standard LS.4.6.3.
LS.4.6.4.
Populations and Ecosystems: Analyze natural selection
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Standard LS.4.6.4.
AR.5. Physical Science: Matter: Properties and Changes: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of matter, including properties and changes, using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
PS.5.6.1.
Properties of Matter: Identify common examples of chemical properties: ability to burn, ability to produce light, ability to react with other substances
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Standard PS.5.6.1.
PS.5.6.2.
Properties of Matter: Compare and contrast characteristics of physical and chemical properties
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Standard PS.5.6.2.
PS.5.6.3.
Properties of Matter: Conduct investigations using acid/base indicators
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Standard PS.5.6.3.
PS.5.6.4.
Properties of Matter: Apply skills of scientific investigation to determine density using SI units
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Standard PS.5.6.4.
PS.5.6.5.
Properties of Matter: Construct a density column using a minimum of four different liquids (e.g., alcohol, colored water, syrup, oil)
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Standard PS.5.6.5.
PS.5.6.6. Properties of Matter: Use a density column to test the density of various solid objects (e.g., piece of candy, cork, candle, paper clip, egg)
PS.5.6.7.
Properties of Matter: Identify characteristics of chemical changes: burning, production of a new substance, production of light, color change, endothermic and exothermic reactions, reactivity
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Standard PS.5.6.7.
PS.5.6.8.
Properties of Matter: Conduct investigations comparing and contrasting physical and chemical changes
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Standard PS.5.6.8.
PS.5.6.9.
Properties of Matter: Demonstrate the law of the conservation of matter
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Standard PS.5.6.9.
PS.5.6.10.
Properties of Matter: Investigate scientists, careers, and historical breakthroughs related to chemical properties and chemical changes
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Standard PS.5.6.10.
AR.6. Physical Science: Motion and Forces: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of motion and forces using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
PS.6.6.1.
Motion and Forces: Compare and contrast simple machines and compound machines
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Standard PS.6.6.1.
PS.6.6.2.
Motion and Forces: Identify and analyze the simple machines that make up a compound machine
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Standard PS.6.6.2.
PS.6.6.3.
Motion and Forces: Conduct investigations of various forces using SI units (newton)
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Standard PS.6.6.3.
PS.6.6.4.
Motion and Forces: Recognize and give examples of different types of forces: gravitational forces, magnetic forces, friction
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Standard PS.6.6.4.
PS.6.6.5.
Motion and Forces: Understand why objects have weight
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Standard PS.6.6.5.
PS.6.6.6.
Motion and Forces: Compare and contrast weight and mass
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Standard PS.6.6.6.
PS.6.6.7.
Motion and Forces: Describe the effects of force: move a stationary object, speed up, slow down or change the direction of motion, change the shape of objects
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Standard PS.6.6.7.
PS.6.6.8.
Motion and Forces: Conduct investigations to demonstrate change in direction caused by force
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Standard PS.6.6.8.
PS.6.6.9.
Motion and Forces: Conduct investigations to calculate the change in speed caused by applying forces to an object
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Standard PS.6.6.9.
PS.6.6.10.
Motion and Forces: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to compound machines and forces
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Standard PS.6.6.10.
AR.7. Physical Science: Energy and Transfer of Energy: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of energy and transfer of energy using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
PS.7.6.1.
Energy: Classify examples of energy forms: chemical, electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal, nuclear
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Standard PS.7.6.1.
PS.7.6.2.
Energy: Summarize the application of the law of conservation of energy in real world situations: electrical energy into mechanical energy, electrical energy into heat, chemical energy into mechanical energy, chemical energy into light
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Standard PS.7.6.2.
PS.7.6.3.
Energy: Conduct investigations demonstrating how energy can be converted from one form to another
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Standard PS.7.6.3.
PS.7.6.4.
Energy: Investigate the transfer of energy in real world situations: conduction, convection, radiation
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Standard PS.7.6.4.
PS.7.6.5.
Energy: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to energy forms and conversions
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Standard PS.7.6.5.
AR.8. Earth and Space Science: Earth Systems: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of Earth's structure and properties using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
ESS.8.6.1.
Structure and Properties: Identify and diagram the layers of the Earth: crust, mantle, inner and outer core
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Standard ESS.8.6.1.
ESS.8.6.2.
Structure and Properties: Model the layers of the Earth
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Standard ESS.8.6.2.
ESS.8.6.3.
Structure and Properties: Model how convection currents in the mantle affect lithosphere movement
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Standard ESS.8.6.3.
ESS.8.6.4.
Structure and Properties: Conduct investigations to identify the variables within volcanoes that cause different types of eruptions
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Standard ESS.8.6.4.
ESS.8.6.5.
Structure and Properties: Diagram and explain how volcanoes work
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Standard ESS.8.6.5.
ESS.8.6.6.
Structure and Properties: Explain how volcanic activity relates to mountain formation
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Standard ESS.8.6.6.
ESS.8.6.7.
Structure and Properties: Connect short-term changes in climate with volcanic activity
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Standard ESS.8.6.7.
ESS.8.6.8.
Structure and Properties: Compare and contrast the different land forms caused by Earth's internal forces: mountains, plateaus, trenches, islands
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Standard ESS.8.6.8.
ESS.8.6.9.
Structure and Properties: Research local, regional, and state landforms created by internal forces in the earth: Ozark Plateau, Crater of Diamonds, Ouachita Mountains, New Madrid Fault
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Standard ESS.8.6.9.
ESS.8.6.10.
Structure and Properties: Identify the effects of earthquakes on Earth's surface: tsunamis, floods, changes in natural and man-made structures
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Standard ESS.8.6.10.
ESS.8.6.11.
Structure and Properties: Investigate and map patterns of earthquake and volcanic activity
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Standard ESS.8.6.11.
ESS.8.6.12.
Structure and Properties: Locate earthquake belts on Earth: Mediterranean-Trans-Asiatic, Circum-Pacific (Ring of Fire)
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Standard ESS.8.6.12.
ESS.8.6.13.
Structure and Properties: Analyze how earthquake occurrences are recorded (seismograph) and measured (Richter scale)
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Standard ESS.8.6.13.
ESS.8.6.14.
Structure and Properties: Model the effect of major geological events on land and ocean features: mountain building, ocean trenches, island formation, mid-ocean ridges
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Standard ESS.8.6.14.
ESS.8.6.15.
Structure and Properties: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to internal forces that change the Earth
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Standard ESS.8.6.15.
AR.9. Earth and Space Science: Earth's History: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of Earth's history using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
ESS.9.6.1.
Earth's History: Research methods of determining geologic time: fossil records, mountain building, rock sequencing
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Standard ESS.9.6.1.
ESS.9.6.2.
Earth's History: Model rock layer sequencing based on characteristics of fossils
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Standard ESS.9.6.2.
ESS.9.6.3.
Earth's History: Analyze evidence that supports the theory of plate tectonics: matching coastlines, similar rock types, fossil record
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Standard ESS.9.6.3.
AR.10. Earth and Space Science: Objects in the Universe: Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of objects in the universe using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology
ESS.10.6.1.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Explain how planets seem to wander against the background of the stars
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Standard ESS.10.6.1.
ESS.10.6.2.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Compare the distance of the following: from the sun to Earth (light minutes), from the next nearest star to Earth (light years)
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Standard ESS.10.6.2.
ESS.10.6.3.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Describe how astronomers measure distance to stars
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Standard ESS.10.6.3.
ESS.10.6.4.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Calculate the rate at which we would have to travel to other stars and planets in our solar system using current technology
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Standard ESS.10.6.4.
ESS.10.6.5.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Explain the effect of the sun on comets
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Standard ESS.10.6.5.
ESS.10.6.6.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Compare and contrast comets, meteors, and asteroids by size, orbits, nucleus, mass
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Standard ESS.10.6.6.
ESS.10.6.7.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Model moon phases demonstrating the position of Earth, moon, and sun
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Standard ESS.10.6.7.
ESS.10.6.8.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Compare and contrast solar eclipse and lunar eclipse
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Standard ESS.10.6.8.
ESS.10.6.9.
Solar System: Sun, Earth, Moons, Planets, Galaxies: Investigate careers, scientists, and historical breakthroughs related to the sun and space travel
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Standard ESS.10.6.9.