GEMS Correlations with the Georgia State Science Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
for Sixth Grade
Physical Science
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Strand: Physical Science
1. Scientific Inquiry Process
Standard: Uses process skills of observing, classifying, communicating,
measuring, predicting, inferring, identifying, and manipulating variables;
recording analyzing and operationally defining, formulating models,
experimenting, constructing hypotheses and drawing conclusions.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, Mystery Festival,
Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and
Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone, Vitamin C Testing, Animals
in Action, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, & Stars,
Environmental Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space,
Paper Towel Testing, Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering
Density, Dry Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model
Rockets, Learning About Learning, Mapping Fish Habitats, More Than Magnifiers,
The Real Reasons For Seasons, River Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents,
Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
2. Safety Skills
Standard: Understands and applies laboratory safety rules and practices.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, Mystery Festival,
Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic
Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck,
Stories in Stone, Vitamin C Testing, Animals in Action, Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, & Stars, Environmental Detectives,
Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Paper Towel Testing,
Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering Density, Dry
Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model Rockets, Mapping
Fish Habitats, More Than Magnifiers, The Real Reasons For Seasons, River
Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
3. Standard International (SI) Measurements (Metric System)
Standard: Defines and identifies standards of measurement.
3.1 Names the prefixes used in the SI system.
3.2 Identifies SI units and symbols for length, volume, mass, density,
time, and temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Plate Tectonics, Vitamin C Testing
3.3 Converts measurements among related SI units.
3.4 Uses appropriate tools for determining mass volume, temperature,
density, and length.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Schoolyard Ecology, Hot Water and
Warm Homes, Moons of Jupiter, Vitamin C Testing, Bubble-ology, Environmental
Detectives, Messages From Space, Paper Towel Testing, Acid Rain, Chemical
Reactions, Discovering Density, Dry Ice Investigations, Earthworms,
Experimenting With Model Rockets, More Than Magnifiers, The Real Reasons
For Seasons, River Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only One
Ocean, Plate Tectonics
4. Reference Skills
Standard: Selects and uses multiple types of print and nonprint
sources for information on science concepts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, Mystery Festival,
Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and
Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone, Vitamin C Testing, Animals
in Action, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, & Stars,
Environmental Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space,
Paper Towel Testing, Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering
Density, Dry Ice Investigations, Earthworms, Experimenting With Model
Rockets, Learning About Learning, Mapping Fish Habitats, More Than Magnifiers,
The Real Reasons For Seasons, River Cutters, Global Warming, Ocean Currents,
Only One Ocean, Plate Tectonics
5. Structure of Matter
Standard: Explains the properties and phases of matter, using
as an example the composition and properties of water.
5.1 Distinguishes between atoms and molecules and among elements, mixtures
and compounds.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Crime
Lab Chemistry, Chemical Reactions, Ocean Currents
5.2 Describes the structure of elements.
5.3 Describes the periodic table of elements and uses it to find information
about an element.
5.4 Uses the periodic table to classify an element as a metal, nonmetal,
or metalloid.
5.4 Describes atomic number and atomic mass.
5.6 Distinguishes physical and chemical properties and physical and
chemical changes.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Crime
Lab Chemistry, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone,
Vitamin C Testing, Bubble-ology, Environmental Detectives, Acid Rain,
Chemical Reactions, Dry Ice Investigations, Mapping Fish Habitats, Global
Warming, Ocean Currents
5.7 Recognizes and writes common chemical symbols, chemical formulas,
and chemical equations.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Acid Rain, Chemical Reactions, Dry Ice Investigations, Mapping
Fish Habitats, Global Warming
6. Structure of Matter
Standard: Analyzes the relationship of matter and energy.
6.1 Describes how the molecular motion changes in each phase of matter.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations
6.2 Discusses the nature of freezing, condensing, boiling, and evaporating.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Convection,
Dry Ice Investigations, Ocean Currents
7. Structure of Matter
Standard: Defines acid and base.
7.1 Describes the characteristic properties of acids and bases.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Acid Rain
7.2 Lists the names, formulas, and uses of some common acids and bases.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Acid Rain
7.3 Explain what a salt is and how salts form.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Chemical
Reactions
8. Motion, Forces, and Energy
Standard: Describes how energy and work are related.
8.1 Distinguishes between kinetic and potential energy.
8.2 Describes different forms of energy (e.g., mechanical, electrical,
chemical, radiant, nuclear, etc.).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Global Warming
9. Motion, Forces, and Energy
Standard: Defines speed as a rate.
9.1 Performs calculations involving speed, time, and distance to interpret
distance-time graphs.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Experimenting
With Model Rockets, The Real Reasons For Seasons, Plate Tectonics
9.2 Compares and contrasts speed, velocity, and acceleration.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Experimenting
With Model Rockets
9.3 Recognizes different examples of forces.
9.4 States and describes Newton’s three laws of motion.
9.5 Gives examples of the effects of gravity.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Moons
of Jupiter, Earth, Moon, & Stars, Experimenting With Model Rockets
9.6 Relates gravitational force to mass and distance.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Moons
of Jupiter, Experimenting With Model Rockets
9.7 Distinguishes between mass and weight.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Discovering
Density, Ocean Currents
10. Motion, Forces, and Energy
Standard: Explains the relationship among force, motion and acceleration.
10.1 Explains why objects thrown or shot follow a curved path.
10.2 Compares motion in a straight line with circular motion.
10.3 Defines weightlessness.
10.4 Analyzes action and reaction forces.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Experimenting
With Model Rockets
11. Motion, Forces, and Energy
Standard: Describes how particles of a fluid exert pressure.
11.1 States Archimedes' principle.
11.2 States Bernoulli's principle and describes a way Bernoulli's principle
is applied.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology
14. Energy and Its Transformation: Heat
Standard: Investigates the characteristics, movements, and measurements
of heat energy.
14.1 Demonstrates the difference between heat and temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Convection, The Real Reasons For Seasons, Global Warming
14.2 Shows how heat causes matter to expand and contract.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations, Global Warming, Ocean Currents
14.3 Explains how heat is transferred by conduction, convection, and
radiation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Convection, Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming,
Ocean Currents
14.4 Identifies some causes and effects of thermal pollutions.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Global Warming
14.5 Discusses some possible solutions for thermal pollution problems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Global Warming
15. Energy and Its Transformation: Waves
Standard: Describes how waves carry energy.
15.1 Discusses the characteristics and properties of waves.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Microscopic
Explorations, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Global Warming
15.2 Explains how wavelength, frequency, and speed are related.
15.3 Compares transverse and compressional waves.
15.4 Describes how waves are refracted and reflected.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations, Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Global Warming
17. Energy and Its Transformation: Light
Standard: States and give an example of the law of reflection.
17.1 Explains how refraction is used to separate light into the colors
of the spectrum.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers
17.2 Describes how diffraction and interference patterns demonstrate
wave behavior.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers
18. Energy and Its Transformation: Light
Standard: Investigates the relationship between light and color.
18.1 Describes the differences among opaque, transparent, and translucent
materials.
18.2 Explains how you see color.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Color
Analyzers
18.3 Describes the difference between light color and pigment color.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Color
Analyzers
19. Energy and Its Transformation: Light
Standard: Discusses how light interacts with mirrors and lenses
to produce images.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Microscopic
Explorations, More Than Magnifiers
19.1 Explains how images are formed in mirrors.
19.2 Identifies uses of plane, concave, and convex mirrors.
19.3 Describes the types of images formed with convex and concave lenses.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Microscopic
Explorations, More Than Magnifiers
19.4 Compares refracting and reflecting telescopes.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: More
Than Magnifiers
19.5 Discusses the technological advances in the use of light (e.g.,
fiber optics, lasers, cameras, microscopes, etc.)
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Microscopic
Explorations, Color Analyzers, Messages From Space, More Than Magnifiers
26. Energy and Its Transformation: Alternative Energy Sources
Standard: Recognizes the major energy sources people use today
to meet their energy needs.
26.1 Defines and investigates energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal
heat, nuclear, fossil fuels, and hydroelectric power.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Environmental Detectives, Acid Rain, River Cutters,
Global Warming
26.2 Identifies ways energy can be conserved.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Environmental Detectives, Acid Rain, Global Warming
26.3 Compares and contrasts alternative energy sources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Acid Rain, Global Warming
26.4 Identifies models that demonstrate how wind, sun, water, geothermal
energy and waves can be used as alternative energy sources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes, Global Warming
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