Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Science Grade 6
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 6 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Questioning and predicting
- Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
- Make observations in familiar or unfamiliar contexts
- Identify questions to answer or problems to solve through scientific inquiry
- Make predictions about the findings of their inquiry
Planning and conducting
- With support, plan appropriate investigations to answer their questions or solve problems they have identified
- Choose appropriate data to collect to answer their questions
- Observe, measure, and record data, using appropriate tools, including digital technologies
Processing and analyzing data and information
- Experience and interpret the local environment
- Construct and use a variety of methods, including tables, graphs, and digital technologies, as appropriate, to represent patterns or relationships in data
- Identify patterns and connections in data
- Compare data with predictions and develop explanations for results
- Demonstrate an openness to new ideas and consideration of alternatives
Evaluating
- Evaluate whether their investigations were fair tests
- Identify possible sources of error
- Suggest improvements to their investigation methods
- Identify some of the assumptions in secondary sources
- Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence
- Identify some of the social, ethical, and environmental implications of the findings from their own and others’ investigations
Applying and innovating
- Contribute to care for self, others, school, and neighbourhood through personal or collaborative approaches
- Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving
Communicating
- Communicate ideas, explanations, and processes in a variety of ways
- Express and reflect on personal or shared experiences of place
MediaSmarts Resources
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
- the basic structures and functions of body systems:
- excretory
- reproductive
- hormonal
- nervous