6th+Grade+Core

=6th Grade Core Big Ideas = =**Project Ideas: Science**= //**1st Trimester**//

Basic Skills
//**2nd Trimester**//
 * Organization
 * What it means to be a student
 * Basic science skills
 * Conservation

Plate tectonics
//3rd Trimester//
 * Ecology**
 * Local ecology
 * Wetlands
 * Bay Area
 * Connections to past and present residents
 * Connections to past and present residents

=**Project Ideas: Social Studies**= //1st Trimester//
 * **Time lines**
 * personal
 * historical
 * geological (science connection)
 * Maps
 * continents
 * oceans
 * Early Man