# Grade 6: Science A course roadmap (science). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 17 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/tn-sci-grade-6 Part of: [Tennessee: Science](https://ai.page/roadmap/tn-sci.md) Goal: Tennessee academic standards: Science, Grade 6 ## 1. Engineering Design - [Building an energy-converting device](https://ai.page/c/building-an-energy-converting-device/index.md): Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another - [Simple Design Problems](https://ai.page/c/simple-design-problems/index.md): Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost ## 2. Earth and Human Activity - [Biodiversity & Resilience](https://ai.page/c/biodiversity-and-resilience/index.md): Explain what biodiversity means, why high biodiversity makes ecosystems more resilient, and describe the ways human activity threatens biodiversity (habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, climate change) - [Communities Protecting Resources](https://ai.page/c/communities-protecting-resources/index.md): Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment - [Renewable vs non-renewable energy](https://ai.page/c/renewable-vs-non-renewable-energy/index.md): Distinguish between renewable energy resources (solar, wind, hydroelectric, tidal, geothermal, biomass) and non-renewable resources (coal, oil, gas, nuclear), comparing their advantages, disadvantages, and environmental impacts ## 3. Earth's Systems - [Earth's atmosphere](https://ai.page/c/earth-s-atmosphere/index.md): Develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact as connected Earth systems - [Reading Weather Maps](https://ai.page/c/reading-weather-maps/index.md): Read and interpret weather maps, data tables, and graphs — identifying symbols for sun, rain, wind, and temperature; spotting trends and patterns in weather data over weeks, months, or seasons; and using data to make simple predictions - [The Water Cycle](https://ai.page/c/the-water-cycle/index.md): Describe the water cycle, tracing water through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, surface runoff, and transpiration in plants, explaining how the sun drives the cycle - [Oceans & Climate](https://ai.page/c/oceans-and-climate/index.md): Understand the connection between the ocean and climate: the ocean absorbs heat and carbon dioxide, drives weather patterns through evaporation, and ocean currents distribute warmth around the planet — making the ocean Earth's climate engine - [Sun-Driven Weather Systems](https://ai.page/c/sun-driven-weather-systems/index.md): Understand how the Sun drives weather: the Sun heats Earth's surface unevenly (land heats faster than water, equator gets more heat than poles), creating differences in air pressure that cause wind patterns, ocean currents, and large-scale weather systems ## 4. Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics - [Ocean Ecosystems](https://ai.page/c/ocean-ecosystems/index.md): Understand ocean ecosystems as interconnected systems where living things (producers, consumers, decomposers) and non-living factors (temperature, salinity, light, currents) all interact, and that changes to one part affect the whole system - [Food Webs & Interdependence](https://ai.page/c/food-webs-and-interdependence/index.md): Construct and interpret food webs showing the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, explaining how a change in one population affects others - [Human impact on environments](https://ai.page/c/human-impact-on-environments/index.md): Use vocabulary for human impact on the environment — pollution, habitat destruction, deforestation, biodiversity, conservation, renewable energy, non-renewable energy, fossil fuel, carbon footprint, sustainability, endangered, extinct — and apply these when discussing environmental issues and human choices ## 5. Energy - [Conduction, convection, and radiation](https://ai.page/c/conduction-convection-and-radiation/index.md): Describe and compare the three mechanisms of heat transfer — conduction (particle vibration through solids), convection (fluid movement in liquids/gases), and radiation (infrared waves) — and explain that the rate of transfer depends on temperature difference - [Speed and energy](https://ai.page/c/speed-and-energy/index.md): Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object ## 6. Earth’s Systems - [Finding patterns in data](https://ai.page/c/finding-patterns-in-data/index.md): Analyse and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features, recognising that many features result from processes that occur over long periods - [Climate Change Basics](https://ai.page/c/climate-change-basics/index.md): Understand the basics of climate change: Earth’s atmosphere traps some of the Sun's heat (the greenhouse effect), burning fossil fuels adds extra greenhouse gases (especially CO₂), this is making Earth gradually warmer, and this warming changes weather patterns, melts ice, and raises sea levels ## Health: 0 of 100 Of its 17 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version. Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI): - Building an energy-converting device has no explanation yet - Simple Design Problems has no explanation yet - Biodiversity & Resilience comes before Food Webs & Interdependence, which it needs - Biodiversity & Resilience has no explanation yet - Communities Protecting Resources comes before Human impact on environments, which it needs - Communities Protecting Resources has no explanation yet - Renewable vs non-renewable energy has no explanation yet - Earth's atmosphere has no explanation yet - Reading Weather Maps has no explanation yet - The Water Cycle has no explanation yet - Oceans & Climate comes before Ocean Ecosystems, which it needs - Oceans & Climate has no explanation yet - Sun-Driven Weather Systems has no explanation yet - Ocean Ecosystems has no explanation yet - Food Webs & Interdependence has no explanation yet - Human impact on environments has no explanation yet - Conduction, convection, and radiation has no explanation yet - Speed and energy has no explanation yet - Finding patterns in data has no explanation yet - Climate Change Basics has no explanation yet Credit: The structure of Tennessee academic standards: Science (https://www.tn.gov/assets/entities/sbe/attachments/TNScienceStandards_FinalApproved.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.