What does a student learn in StateLouisiana,GradeGrade 6,SubjectScience?

Students draw or build models showing how atoms connect to form simple molecules, like water or carbon dioxide, and larger repeating structures, like crystals or metals.

When two objects collide, each one pushes back on the other with equal force. Students use that idea to design a solution that controls or redirects what happens during the collision.

Students design an experiment to show how the speed or direction of a moving object changes based on how hard it's pushed or pulled and how heavy it is. Heavier objects need more force to change how they move.

Students look at data to figure out what makes electric and magnetic forces stronger or weaker. They practice asking the right questions about patterns in the data, not just memorizing answers.

Students build an argument, using real examples, for why gravity pulls objects together rather than pushing them apart, and why heavier objects pull on each other more strongly than lighter ones do.

Two objects can push or pull each other without touching. Students investigate how magnetic or gravitational fields create that invisible force, then judge whether the experiment was set up well enough to trust the results.

Students graph and read data to show how a moving object's energy changes based on how heavy it is and how fast it goes. A heavier or faster object carries more kinetic energy.

When objects that pull or push on each other from a distance move closer together or farther apart, the energy stored between them changes. Students model this using examples like a falling ball or a magnet near metal.

Students learn how to describe waves using math: how a taller wave carries more energy, and how waves with more peaks per second have shorter distances between those peaks.

Students learn what happens when a wave (like light or sound) hits a material. Depending on the material, the wave bends, bounces back, passes through, or gets absorbed.

Students build and use a diagram or model of the Earth, sun, and moon moving together to explain why the moon appears to change shape each month, why eclipses happen, and why seasons repeat each year.

Gravity pulls every planet, moon, and star toward other objects with mass. Students use diagrams or models to explain why planets orbit the sun and why moons orbit planets instead of drifting into space.

Students study real measurements of planets, moons, and the sun to understand how enormous the gaps between them are. Size and distance in the solar system are far harder to picture than any map or textbook image suggests.

Students build a case, backed by real data, for how a growing population and rising resource use strain land, water, and air. Think of it as connecting the dots between how many people need what, and what that demand does to the planet.

Students investigate whether living things are made of cells by examining samples under a microscope. They gather their own evidence rather than just reading a claim in a textbook.

Students draw or label a diagram of a cell and explain what each part does, showing how the whole cell stays alive and working because its parts do specific jobs.

Students look at real data about food, water, space, and other resources to explain why some populations grow, shrink, or disappear in an ecosystem.

Students predict how organisms interact across different ecosystems, such as how predators and prey keep each other's populations in check. They back their predictions with evidence and explain why similar patterns show up in different places.

Students build a diagram or model showing how matter like water, carbon, and nutrients moves in cycles through an ecosystem, and how energy flows from the sun through plants, animals, and soil.