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Utah Curriculum Resources

For Kindergarten, First and Second Grade lesson plans, please go to the K, 1, 2 Core listing.

  Educational Technology - (Grades 6-8)

• Expanded Notation and Scientific Notation
  

• Playing the Stock Market
  

• What About That Jazz?
  

  Health Education - 6th Grade

• Diseases
  

• Dysfunctional Eating
  

• Peer Pressure
  

• Self Acceptance
  

• TECH:Class-to-class Interaction (Communication)
  

  Keyboarding - (Sixth Grade) [2002]

• Keyboarding - Progressive Story
  

• Keyboarding - Fractured Fractions
  

• Keyboarding - Keyboard Scavenger
  

  Language Arts - 6th Grade

• A Newspaper?
  

• Algebra Applies to the Real World? No Way!
  

• Bing! Bang! Boom!
  

• Catching Some Rays
  

• Coordinate Connections
  

• Enlightening Explorations
  

• Enlightening Explorations, Part II
  

• Enlightening Explorations, Part III
  

• Grab Your Reader: Great Leads
  

• Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/Writng
  

• Homonym Baseball
  

• I'm So Bright I Wear My Shades Indoors!
  

• Introducing Text Structures in Science Writing-6th Grd
  

• Life Symbols: Getting Started
  

• Looking At Punctuation
  

• Lunar Language
  

• Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise
  

• Microbes On My Mind
  

• Moon Light Through the Month
  

• Notes on the Seasons
  

• P.I.’s (aka – Probability Investigators)
  

• Patterned Paragraphs
  

• Picture This: Visualization
  

• Setting A Purpose For Reading Using Informational Text
  

• Sixth Grade Writing Lesson #1/Narrative Prompt
  

• Sticky Note Math
  

• The Analemma
  

• The Black Snowman, An Interdisciplinary Unit
  

• The Circle's Measure
  

• The Good, The Bad, and The Both
  

• The Trip Around the Sun
  

• Tracking Sunrise and Sunset
  

• Understanding Decimals
  

• Using a Before-Rdg Organizer with Informational Text
  

• Using a Preview Checklist with Informational Text
  

• Was Goldilocks Telling the Truth?
  

• Whittle, Whittle it Down: Summarizing
  

• Why Angle Changes Intensity
  

  Library Media - 6th Grade

• Dewey Decimal Game
  

• Literature Circles
  

• Shelving or Finding Books
  

  Mathematics - 6th Grade

• A Newspaper?
  

• Algebra Applies to the Real World? No Way!
  

• Balance or Tilt?
  

• Best Salary
  

• Bing! Bang! Boom!
  

• Candy Bar Graphs
  

• Catching Some Rays
  

• Coordinate Connections
  

• Domino Theory
  

• E.T. Probability (Experimental/Theoretical)
  

• Enlightening Explorations, Part II
  

• Expanded Notation and Scientific Notation
  

• Exploring Fractions
  

• Function-al Machines & Spaghetti Graphs
  

• Getting Serious About Cylinders-Surface Area and Volume
  

• Growing Patterns
  

• How Likely is it?
  

• Keyboarding - Fractured Fractions
  

• Looking for Length
  

• Make It Metric
  

• Math 6 - Act. 01: Dividing Fractions
  

• Math 6 - Act. 02: Investing Money
  

• Math 6 - Act. 03: Cyclops
  

• Math 6 - Act. 04: Dishes for a Penny
  

• Math 6 - Act. 05: Making Games
  

• Math 6 - Act. 06: Two-Step Equations
  

• Math 6 - Act. 07: Evaluating Expressions Using Tiles
  

• Math 6 - Act. 08: Patterns
  

• Math 6 - Act. 09: The Shape Shifter
  

• Math 6 - Act. 10: Pattern Block Polygons
  

• Math 6 - Act. 11: Measuring Pattern Block Angles
  

• Math 6 - Act. 12:Patterns in the Sums of Polygon Angles
  

• Math 6 - Act. 13: Constructing Tangrams
  

• Math 6 - Act. 14: Pyramids & Prisms: Guler's Formula
  

• Math 6 - Act. 15: Metric Rhyme
  

• Math 6 - Act. 16: Trundle Wheel
  

• Math 6 - Act. 17: Pi
  

• Math 6 - Act. 18: Angle Land and Angle Aerobics
  

• Math 6 - Act. 19: Cube Models
  

• Math 6 - Act. 20: Which Month First?
  

• Math 6 - Act. 21: Spinning Probability
  

• Math 6 - Act. 22: The Dice Game
  

• Math 6 - Act. 23: Drawing Conclusions
  

• Math 6 - Act. 25: Coin Tossing
  

• Math 6 - Act. 26: Exploring Scale
  

• Orion Constellation Model
  

• P.I.’s (aka – Probability Investigators)
  

• Patterns in Measurement
  

• Peer Pressure
  

• Pennies for Pits
  

• Perceiving Patterns
  

• Predicting Percents
  

• Prime Factorization – From Fingerprints to Factorprints
  

• Prime and Composite
  

• Pyramid Equality
  

• Scientific Notation
  

• Situational Data
  

• Smaller Than One
  

• Spacing Out the Solar System
  

• Sticky Note Math
  

• The Circle's Measure
  

• The Isle of Immeter
  

• The New Texas Two-Step
  

• The Northern Lights
  

• The Trip Around the Sun
  

• Tomb Robbers
  

• Tracking Sunrise and Sunset
  

• Transforming Triangles
  

• Understanding Decimals
  

• What do you see?
  

• What time is it?
  

• Why Angle Changes Intensity
  

  Physical Education - 6th Grade

• 5-6-7-8
  

• Hampster Dance
  

• Scream Run
  

• Structured Recess Flag Football
  

• Upper Body Fun
  

  Science - 6th Grade

• "I'll Build You A Rainbow"
  

• An Ancient Disease: Who Am I?
  

• And the Bacteria Ran Away with the Petri Dish
  

• Around the Sun We Go
  

• Bending Beams of Light
  

• Bending Light
  

• Bing! Bang! Boom!
  

• Candy Bar Graphs
  

• Catching Some Rays
  

• Charting the Moon
  

• Conduction, Convection, and Radiation: An Introduction
  

• Convection Currents
  

• Decomposing Microorganisms
  

• Diseases
  

• Earth's Daylight
  

• Earth's Seasons
  

• Enlightening Explorations
  

• Enlightening Explorations, Part II
  

• Enlightening Explorations, Part III
  

• Expanded Notation and Scientific Notation
  

• Experiences and Experiments - There is a Difference
  

• Heat – It’s as Easy as ONE, TWO, THREE!
  

• Hit Me With Your Best Shot
  

• How Clean Is It?
  

• How Hot Is It?
  

• I'm So Bright I Wear My Shades Indoors!
  

• Insulation Experimentation
  

• Insulators
  

• Is It Lunar or Lunacy?
  

• Life in a Mini World
  

• Lost in Space
  

• Lunar Language
  

• Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise
  

• Microbes On My Mind
  

• Moon Light Through the Month
  

• Notes on the Seasons
  

• Once Upon a Pond
  

• Orion Constellation Model
  

• Our Solar System
  

• Patterned Paragraphs
  

• Pennies for Pits
  

• Phases of the Moon
  

• Scale Model of Our Nearest Stars
  

• Scale Model of the Solar System
  

• Scale from the Solar System to a Monster Bee
  

• Scientific Notation
  

• Situational Data
  

• Sizing up Sound – STRAW’N & STRING’N
  

• Sound Waves
  

• Spacing Out the Solar System
  

• TRB 6:1 - Activity 1 - It's Just a Phase
  

• TRB 6:1 - Activity 2 - Phases of the Moon
  

• TRB 6:1 - Activity 3 - Wobbling in Circles
  

• TRB 6:2 - Activity 1 - Reasons for the Seasons
  

• TRB 6:2 - Activity 2 - Tracking the Sun
  

• TRB 6:2 - Activity 3 - Earth's Journey Around the Sun
  

• TRB 6:3 - Activity 1 - Tour of the Solar System
  

• TRB 6:3 - Activity 2 - Following in Galileo's Footsteps
  

• TRB 6:3 - Activity 3 - Probes to Other Planets
  

• TRB 6:3 - Activity 4 - Gravity
  

• TRB 6:4 - Act 3 - Dot to Dot: Patterns in the Night Sky
  

• TRB 6:4 - Act 4 - Constellations: Pictures in the Sky
  

• TRB 6:4 - Activity 1 - How Big and How Far
  

• TRB 6:4 - Activity 2 - In a Galaxy Far, Far, Far Away
  

• TRB 6:5 - Act. 4 – Microbe Experimentation: Sour Milk
  

• TRB 6:5 - Activity 1 - Naked to the Eye
  

• TRB 6:5 - Activity 3 - How Do You Make Perfect Yogurt?
  

• TRB 6:5 - Activity 6 - Microbes and Health
  

• TRB 6:5 – Activity 2 – Microorganism Multiplication
  

• TRB 6:5 – Activity 5 – Good Guys or Bad Guys
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 1 - Heat and Color
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 2 - Solar Oven
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 3 - Too Hot to Handle
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 4 - Lemon Light
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 5 - Sound Waves
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 6 - Sound Vibrations
  

• TRB 6:6 - Activity 7 - Battle of the Bands
  

• The Analemma
  

• The Good, The Bad, and The Both
  

• The Northern Lights
  

• The Shadow Knows
  

• The Solar System and the Forces Behind It
  

• The Trip Around the Sun
  

• There are Microbes in my Food!
  

• Tracking Sunrise and Sunset
  

• Vibrations
  

• Was Goldilocks Telling the Truth?
  

• What do you see?
  

• What time is it?
  

• When It Comes to Sound, I'm All Ears!
  

• Why Angle Changes Intensity
  

  Social Studies - 6th Grade

• Ancient Civilizations and the Modern World
  

• Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology Puppet Show
  

• Black Death Math/Economics
  

• Causes of WWI (An Introductory Lesson)
  

• Crispin/Medieval Manor
  

• Current Issues
  

• Emperor or President?
  

• French Revolution
  

• Geography-Religion and Movement
  

• Getting Serious About Cylinders-Surface Area and Volume
  

• Global Issues using primary sources
  

• How Can I Help Change the World?
  

• Industrial Revolution
  

• Insulation Experimentation
  

• Looking Toward a Higher Deity
  

• Newspaper Lesson Plan
  

• Propaganda and its effects on WWI
  

• Renaissance 'Movers & Shakers.'
  

• Renaissance Trade and Exchange
  

• Revolution Jigsaw Lesson
  

• Revolution Synectics Lesson Plan
  

• Revolutionary Characteristics
  

• Rights "Then and Now"
  

• Rights and Responsibilities
  

• The French Revolution
  

• The Industrial Revolution
  

• The Reformation
  

• The Scientific Revolution
  

• WWI-Impact on Soldiers, Families, and Land
  

• Wax Museum
  

• World War One Main Events Using Primary Sources
  

  Standards for Technological Literacy - Grades 6-8

• TECH:Measuring (Const)
  

  Visual Arts - 6th Grade

• Anne Frank: Turning Pages - Journal Writing
  

• Coordinate Connections
  

• Historical Atlas
  

• Patterns in Measurement
  

• Picture This: Visualization
  

• Transforming Triangles
  

For general questions about Utah's Core Curriculum contact the USOE Director of Curriculum - LYNNE GREENWOOD (lynne.greenwood@schools.utah.gov)

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