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New SCoPE Lesson Plans
Sixth Grade

English Language Arts

Unit 1 - Literacy Strategies

Unit 2 - Aspirations & Goals

• Lesson 1 - Developing Personal Goals
• Lesson 2 - Exploring Experiences Related to Aspirations and Goals
• Lesson 3 - Exploring Attributes and Character Traits of Successful Peopl
• Lesson 4 - Using Primary and Secondary Sources to Make Comparison
• Lesson 5 - Preparing for an Interview about a Career
• Lesson 6 - Conducting an Interview about a Career
  
• Lesson 7 - Summarizing the Interview
  
• Lesson 8 - Developing Key Points for a Goals and Career Speech
• Lesson 9 - Plan and Prepare a Goals and Career Speech
  
• Lesson 10 - Practice and Present a Career Speech

Unit 3 - Modern Fantasy

Unit 4 - Trustworthiness

• Lesson 1 - Exploring Trustworthiness, Student Survey
  
• Lesson 2 - Trustworthiness as a Theme in Fiction
  
• Lesson 3 - Finding Trustworthiness in Others
  
• Lesson 4 - Writing a Newspaper Article, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 5 - Reading a Novel with Trustworthiness as the Theme
  
• Lesson 6 - Connecting Novel and Video
  
• Lesson 7 - Writing a Reflection
  
• Lesson 8 - Planning and Drafting a Children's Book
  
• Lesson 9 - Revising, Editing & Illustrating a Children's Book
  
• Lesson 10 - Presenting a Children's Book

Unit 5 - Mysteries

Unit 6 - Tales of Adventure

Unit 7 - Research - Complementing Our Rivers

Science

Unit 1 - Cell Theory & Biological Organization

• Lesson 1 - Now You See It!, Student Pages
• Lesson 2 - Cell Structures, Student Pages
• Lesson 3 - Pond Organisms, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 4 - Cell Specialization, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 5 - From Egg to Chicken, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 6 - Classification: Then and Now, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 7 - Coin Classification, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 8 - Plant Classification, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 9 - Vertebrates/Invertebrates, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 10 - Warm Blooded/Cold Blooded Animals, Student Page

Unit 2 - Atoms in Action

• Teacher Background Material
• Lesson 1 - Mystery Mitt, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 2 - Exploring the Elements, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 3 - Seeing the Unseeable, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 4 - Crystal Capers, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 5 - Space Science, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 6 - More Water Ways, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 7 - Out of Thin Air, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 8 - Scientific Scavenger Hunt, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 9 - How Big? How Small?, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 10 - Kitchen Chemistry, Student Pages

Unit 5 - Living in Michigan - It's All About Water & Weather

• Teacher Background Information
  
• Lesson 1 - Water: Who Needs It?, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 2 - Cloud Capers, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 3 - Going Up?, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 4 - Feeling the Pressure, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 5 - Go with the Flow, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 6 - Sharing Water We Can't See, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 7 - That's My Climate, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 8 - Is the Grass Greener in Another Climate?, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 9 - Check Out These Adaptations, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 10 - What Goes Up Must Go Down -- or Does It?, Student Pages

Unit 6 - Problems from Pollution

• Teacher Background Information
  
• Lesson 1 - Who Killed the Lake?, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 2 - Just a Little, Not a Lot; Student Pages
  
• Lesson 3 - Muddy Water, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 4 - Let the Sun Shine In, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 5 - Soot and Sediment, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 6 - How Green Is My Golf Course?, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 7 - You Can't Mix Oil & Water, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 8 - Cool, Clear Water; Student Pages
  
• Lesson 9 - A Nature Journal, Student Pages
  
• Lesson 10 - Who Saved the Lake?, Student Pages

Social Studies

Unit 1 - Exploring Roles in the Economy

• Lesson 1 - The Economy, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 2 - Needs and Wants, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 3 - Choice and Economic Analysis I, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 4 - Choice and Economic Analysis II, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 5 - Advertising, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 6 - The Government and Producers and Consumers, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 7 - Taxes and the Government, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 8 - Labor Unions, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 9 - Issues Between Labor and Management, Supplemental Materials
• Lesson 10 - Employment Patterns, Supplemental Materials

Unit 2 - Western Europe

• Unit Accomodations
• Lesson Accomodations
• Lesson 1 - Western Europe: A Peninsula of Peninsulas, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 2 - Making Travel Maps of Western Europe, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 3 - Western Europe and Principles of Modern Government, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 4 - A European View of Common Good, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 5 - Leaders in Western Europe, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 6 - Freedom for All, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 7 - Citizens' Rights in the United Kingdom and United States, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 8 - Anti-Semitism and Hitler's Rise in Germany, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 9 - Resisters and Rescuers during the Holocaust, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 10 - The European Union (EU): A Unified Europe, Supplemental Materials

Unit 3 - Eastern Europe

• Lesson 1 - Changing Borders: Imperial Russia, the Former Soviet Union, and Russia Today
  
• Lesson 2 - Climate Connections and Economic Activities in Eastern Europe, Supplemental Materials - Climograph
  
• Lesson 3 - Public Policy Issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 4 - Is It Located in the Balkans or on the Baltic?
  
• Lesson 5 - Changing the Economy in Russia, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 6 - The Trans-Siberian Railroad
  
• Lesson 7 - Money, Old and New, in Eastern Europe
  
• Lesson 8 - Zlata's Diary and Life in Sarajevo, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 9 - The European Union and Eastern Europe
  
• Lesson 10 - Production and Distribution of Wheat in the Ukraine

Unit 4 - Canada

• Unit Accomodations
• Lesson Accomodations
• Lesson 1 - Comparing the Natural Environments of Canadian Provinces, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 2 - Road to Canadian Independence
  
• Lesson 3 - The Fur Trade in North America
  
• Lesson 4 - Economic Activities and Occupations in Canada, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 5 - The Market Economy in Canada, Supplemental Materials, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 6 - Hatchet: A Story of Survival in the Canadian Wilderness, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 7 - Canada, Our Trading Partner
  
• Lesson 8 - The Separatist Movement in Quebec, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 9 - NAFTA and Trade with Canada
  
• Lesson 10 - The New Territory of Nunavut

Unit 5 - Mexico

• Unit Accommodations
• Lesson Accommodations
• Lesson 1 - Mexico, What Do You Know?
  
• Lesson 2 - Mexican Governments, Past to Present, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 3 - Perspectives on the Colonization of Mexico, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 4 - Immigration from Mexico, Legal and Illegal
  
• Lesson 5 - NAFTA, A North American Agreement
  
• Lesson 6 - Let's Have a Fiesta
  
• Lesson 7 - Ancient Mexican Mythology
  
• Lesson 8 - Mexico City is an Ecosystem, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 9 - Esperanza Rising, A Story of a Young Girl's Life From Mexico to California, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 10 - Mexican Connections

Unit 6 - Central America

• Unit Accommodations
• Lesson Accommodations
• Lesson 1 - The Countries of Central America
  
• Lesson 2 - The Panama Canal
  
• Lesson 3 - Money, Money, Money in Central America, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 4 - Goin' Bananas Growin' Bananas in Central America, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 5 - The Indigenous People of Guatemala
  
• Lesson 6 - The Organization of American States, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 7 - The Monroe Doctrine and Latin America, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 8 - Government in Central America, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 9 - Visit Beautiful Belize, Supplemental Materials
  
• Lesson 10 - Current Events in Central America

Unit 8 - South America

• Unit Accommodations
• Lesson Accommodation