Grade Six

Grade Six

Electricity

6-2-14 Identify milestones in the history of air travel and describe their impacts on daily life.
http://centennialofflight.gov/
Centennial of Flight Commission has a history of air aviation and more.*

6-2-15 Use the design process to construct a prototype that can fly and meet specific performance criteria.
http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/activities/adw/welcome.html
Times out check back.

Yahooligans Astronomy and Space
Various space sites.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Yahooligans/Astronomy

6-4-02 Identify technological developments that enable astronauts to meet their basic needs in space.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/more.html
Scroll down to living and working in Space.

http://ispec.scibernet.com/station/space_food.html
Food in space

6-4-03 Identify Canadians who have contributed to space science or space technology, and describe their achievements.

http://www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/human_presence/en/canastronauts/index_en.htm
Human Presence in Space, Canadian Astronaut Office

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/garneau.html
http://www.space-explorers.org/bios/garneau.html
Marc Garneau

http://www.seds.ca/Contest/Entries97/Level1/dehmassi/start-here.html
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/bondar.html
http://www.senecac.on.ca/bondar/index.html
Roberta Bondar

http://www.canbus.com/whoswho/wom_bio6.htm
http://pacific-space-centre.bc.ca/SRC/CIS-Julie.htm
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/payette.html
Julie Payette

http://www.science.sp-agency.ca/
http://www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/space_science/default.asp
Canadian Space Agency

6-4-04 Investigate past and present space research programs involving astronauts, and explain the contributions to scientific knowledge.

6-4-05 Describe positive and negative impacts arising from space research programs.

6-4-06 Identify technological devices placed in space that help humans learn more about the Earth and communicate more efficiently.

http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/.index.html
The NASA space link is a wealth of information about the space program. The NASA projects link is a good source of information.*

6-4-08 Recognize that the Sun is the center of the solar system and it is the source of energy for all life on earth.

http://www.planetscapes.com/solar/eng/sun.htm
Everything you want to know about the sun and more.*

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/sun.html
Star Child site about the sun.* This site is less difficult than the site above.

6-4-09 Identify the planets in the solar system and describe their size relative to the Earth and their position relative to the sun.

6-4-10 Classify planets as inner or outer planets, based on their position relative to the asteroid belt, and describe characteristics of each type.

http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/planets.htm
Kid friendly site about the planets.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/
This site gives exact "mathematical" information for figuring out the ratio of planets sizes when making a scale model of the solar system. Complicated but worth a look.*

http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
Welcome to the planets as well as information about the Space Explorer Craft

6-4-11 Recognize that mass is the amount of matter in an object, that weight is the force of gravity on the mass of an object, and the force of gravity varies from planet to planet.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/
This is a cool site for figuring out your weight on other planets.*

6-4-14 Explain how the relative positions of the Earth, moon, and Sun are responsible for moon phases and eclipses.
http://153.90.193.71/ceres/html/birthdayphases.html
Shows phases of the moon

http://astro-2.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/MOON.HTML
About the moon.

http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/
About the Lunar Prospector mission

http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/solar/eng/edu/eclipses.htm
About eclipses

http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/solar/eng/edu/moonphas.htm
About moon phases.

http://www.googol.com/moon/
Moon phase calendar

http://saatel.it/users/lore/moon.html
At this site you can see the moon on the day you were born plus find out the moon and sun distances at this time.

6-4-16 Identify and describe how people from various cultures, past and present, apply astronomy in daily life.

6-4-17 Differentiate between astrology and astronomy, and explain why astrology is considered unscientific.

http://kidsastronomy.about.com/kids/kidsastronomy/library/weekly/aa061697.htm
Answers the question astronomy vs astrology.*

http://www.aspsky.org/education/tnl/11/11.html
Shows some tests students can do to test astrology.