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Grade 6

• Language

  • 6.L.1
  • 6.L.1.a
  • 6.L.1.b
  • 6.L.1.c
  • 6.L.1.d
  • 6.L.1.e
  • 6.L.2
  • 6.L.3
  • 6.L.3.a
  • 6.L.4
  • 6.L.4.a
  • 6.L.4.b
  • 6.L.4.c
  • 6.L.5
  • 6.L.5.a
  • 6.L.5.b
  • 6.L.5.c
  • 6.L.6

• Reading: Informational

  • 6.RI.1
  • 6.RI.2
  • 6.RI.3
  • 6.RI.4
  • 6.RI.5
  • 6.RI.6
  • 6.RI.7
  • 6.RI.8
  • 6.RI.9

• Reading: Literature

  • 6.RL.1
  • 6.RL.2
  • 6.RL.3
  • 6.RL.4
  • 6.RL.5
  • 6.RL.6
  • 6.RL.7
  • 6.RL.9
  • 6.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 6.SL.1
  • 6.SL.1.a
  • 6.SL.1.b
  • 6.SL.1.c
  • 6.SL.1.d
  • 6.SL.2
  • 6.SL.3
  • 6.SL.4
  • 6.SL.5
  • 6.SL.6

• Writing

  • 6.W.1
  • 6.W.1.a
  • 6.W.1.b
  • 6.W.1.d
  • 6.W.1.e
  • 6.W.2
  • 6.W.2.a
  • 6.W.2.b
  • 6.W.2.c
  • 6.W.2.d
  • 6.W.2.e
  • 6.W.3
  • 6.W.3.a
  • 6.W.3.b
  • 6.W.3.c
  • 6.W.3.d
  • 6.W.3.e
  • 6.W.4
  • 6.W.5
  • 6.W.6
  • 6.W.7
  • 6.W.8
  • 6.W.9
  • 6.W.9.a
  • 6.W.9.b
  • 6.W.10

Arizona ELA Standard: 6.RI.7

Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Silver Torch

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Barringer

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Rosetta

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Critter

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A House

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: SLS Test

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Butterball

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Notice, Wonder: Ramses

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Craters

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Bloom

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Notice, Wonder: Skylight

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Krzywy Las

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Scales

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Vortices

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Notice, Wonder: Swirls

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Notice, Wonder: Witch’s Fingers

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Parabolic Curve Art

Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 8

Looping Grid Art

Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Green Circles

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: An Orange Thing

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Kuiseb

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A Long Line

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice Wonder: Blood Falls

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Generalization: Systems Are Made up of Other Systems

A clock is a system. So is a rainforest. So is your school. Once you see systems inside systems, you can’t unsee it.

Gr 1-8

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Gr 3-7

Notice, Wonder: Forest

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Akron

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Notice Wonder: Electronics

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice Wonder: Turbine

Your students will be surprised by the size of this turbine… and by what’s hanging from it!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice Wonder: Z-Machine

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Climber

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A River

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: The Cliff

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Michael

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Etna

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Plateau

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A Ship

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Student Introductions with Complexity and Frames

How have you changed over time? Students introduce themselves through the lens of change — and learn a Depth and Complexity tool in the process.

Gr 1-8

Content Imperatives: Convergence

Add complexity by considering how multiple factors 🔄 Converge within one topic.

Gr 2, 5, 6, 7, 8

Content Imperatives: Parallel

Get students thinking broadly by exploring similarities across multiple topics. Combine with Depth and Complexity for bonus points!

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 📈 Trends

Has something been changing recently? What might be causing that? What are the effects?

Gr 2-8

Depth and Complexity: ❓ Unanswered Questions

This underutilized tool focuses students on what we don’t yet know and even what we can’t know.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 📚 Across Disciplines

No topic is an island! With the 📚 Across Disciplines prompt, students note connections within and across multiple fields.

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Depth and Complexity: Patterns

Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?

Gr 2-8

Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy turns leaves and stones into art. Your students will learn to draw his signature natural curves — then build on them.

Gr 1-8

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8

Reduce Anxiety: Change The Channel (Tool 2)

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Reduce Anxiety: Square Breathing (Tool 1)

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

Gr 1-8

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

Gr 3-8

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.

Gr 1-8

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

Gr 1-8