Plan your unit about dinosaur extinction, climate change and extreme weather in minutes. This unit includes all of our resources about earth systems through activities, investigations, projects and complete lessons. Get your planning out of the way and start teaching!
This unit was designed specifically for Alberta Grade 6 science teachers. It includes:
lesson plans with step-by-step instructions and options for modifications.
student pages and templates.
answer keys and suggested answers.
photos of student examples.
ideas for how to use this resource in the classroom, online, or a mix.
digital versions of all the student reading and writing pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF files and use the access links in the files to get your digital copies.
an alignment guide for Alberta Outcomes in each resource.
a unit plan and a list of Alberta Science outcomes to help with planning.
These resources are included in this bundle:
Dinosaur Extinction:an activity to show how different information can change perspectives; explanations of misinformation and disinformation and how that plays a role in validating scientific information; comparing dinosaur extinction theories; examining failed theories.
Weather Technology:activities to learn about different modern and historical weather technologies; activities to learn how First Nations, Inuit and Métis people listen to the land to gather weather data and how working with scientists is valuable to all collaborators; comparing different technologies.
Climate Change:definition of climate change; factors that influence climate; natural and human actions that cause climate change; how climate change is measured; impacts on traditional ways of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people due to climate change; impacts on agriculture, forestry, construction, infrastructure and the economy; fossil fuels and green energy; the greenhouse effect; personal actions that can reduce climate change.
Extreme Weather Collaborative Poster:extreme weather vocabulary: tornado, heat wave, blizzard, drought, hurricane, cyclone, flood, thunderstorm, hailstorm, polar vortex and more.
Extreme Weather:how climate change creates extreme weather; types of extreme weather: meteorological, climatological and hydrological. It also explains geological events and how they can impact weather phenomena; extreme weather events in Canada and around the world; comparing weather phenomena events to events caused by weather phenomena.
scientific method outcomes are embedded into the lessons.
Ninja Note:This file is a ZIP file. It contains all the PDF files that contain each unit. Buyers need to download the ZIP and extract the PDF files to a computer. To access the digital versions, download the PDFs and use the links in the files.
