In Grade 6, the study of science includes conducting laboratory investigations and fieldwork using scientific methods, analyzing information, making informed decisions, and using tools such as beakers, test tubes and spring scales to collect, analyze, and record information.
Science is a way of learning about the natural world.
Students should know how science has built a vast body of changing and increasing knowledge described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models, and also should know that science may not answer all questions. A system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact. Students should understand a whole in terms of its components and how these components relate to each other and to the whole. All systems have basic properties that can be described in terms of space, time, energy, and matter. Change and constancy occur in systems and can be observed and measured as patterns.