Behavior Expectations
In 6th grade at Juniata Elementary, it is our job as learning facilitators to create an environment where our students can learn best to help prepare them for Altoona Area Junior High School. Our expectations within this environment include a setting that has diversity, fairness, trust, responsibility, and respect. We expect our students to be held accountable for their actions, respect others and the school, and to follow the school rules to be safe.
Academic Expectations
Departmentalization is implemented in 6th grade, to help prepare our students for the Altoona Area Junior High School. The design of learning is for our students to be exposed to more 6th grade curriculum on a constant basis, by having a teacher instruct the subject(s) daily. By departmentalizing, it will help our 6th grade students become adjusted for the Altoona Area Junior High School. Listed below are our student’s expectations and course descriptions for the school year.
Science
The science curriculum is designed to meet the Pennsylvania State Standards in the 6th grade. It is essential that our students possess personal, social, quantitative literacy to help obtain mastery of the knowledge and skills within our states curriculum. Our science curriculum is developed to help students increase their abilities to be successful academically using their critical thinking skills during inquiry experiences. Throughout the year, the science curriculum will cover a wide range of content. Listed below are the topics that we will be covering.
Unit 1: Scientific Inquiry
Unit 2: Organisms and Cells
Unit 3: Chemistry (Chemical and Physical Properties)
Unit 4: Physics (Motion and Force)
Unit 5: Earth Structure, Processes, and Cycles
Unit 6: Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Unit 7: Watersheds/Wetlands and Soil
Unit 8: Fossil Fuels and Alternative Forms of Energy
Intervention Enrichment Block (IEB)
At the beginning of the year, students will be tested based on their current reading level. All students will be placed into small groups, which are designed to help teachers provide powerful small group instruction to help enhance each students reading level. Some of the components that will be taught during small group instruction are:
-explicit attention to genre and to the features of nonfiction and fiction texts
-close reading to expand comprehension and critical thinking
-use of writing about reading to express ideas that focuses on a particular audience
-working on sounds, letters, and words in various activities to help students break down words
Math
Students will develop a foundation of math concepts and skills through a variety of independent and collaborative activities that are aligned with Pennsylvania State Standards. The concepts and skills that will be implemented in the curriculum are:
-Make sense of problems and perserve in solving them
-Reason abstractly and quantatively
-Model with mathematics
-Look for and make use of structure
-Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
The Units that will be taught throughout the year are:
Unit 1: Ratios and Rates
Unit 2: Arithmetic Operations
Unit 3: Rational Numbers and Coordinate Plane
Unit 4: Algebraic Concepts
Unit 5: Geometry
Unit 6: Statistics
English Language Arts
Our language arts classes are primarily driven by the skills-based standards defined by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education the PA Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. Curricular highlights include organization skills and strategies, active reading strategies taught through short stories from a variety of genres in fiction and non-fiction, grammar/ composition, and spelling. Homework, class work, quizzes, tests, and projects will be used to assess student learning.
Social Studies
In Grade 6, students learn about citizenship by investigating significant periods of United States history from The Civil War to the economy in the 1960s. Historical content will be broken into units that are aligned to the Pennsylvania State Standards. The Units are listed below.
Unit 1: Geography: Map Skills
Unit 2: Civil War & U.S. Reconstruction
Unit 3: Industrial Revolution & Gilded Age
Unit 4: Immigration and Westward Expansion
Unit 5: WWI & The Roaring 20s
Unit 6: The Great Depression & WWII
Unit 7: The Cold War & Civil Rights
Unit 8: John F. Kennedy, LBJ, & Vietnam
Unit 9: U.S. Civics, Government, & Economy
In 6th grade at Juniata Elementary, it is our job as learning facilitators to create an environment where our students can learn best to help prepare them for Altoona Area Junior High School. Our expectations within this environment include a setting that has diversity, fairness, trust, responsibility, and respect. We expect our students to be held accountable for their actions, respect others and the school, and to follow the school rules to be safe.
Academic Expectations
Departmentalization is implemented in 6th grade, to help prepare our students for the Altoona Area Junior High School. The design of learning is for our students to be exposed to more 6th grade curriculum on a constant basis, by having a teacher instruct the subject(s) daily. By departmentalizing, it will help our 6th grade students become adjusted for the Altoona Area Junior High School. Listed below are our student’s expectations and course descriptions for the school year.
Science
The science curriculum is designed to meet the Pennsylvania State Standards in the 6th grade. It is essential that our students possess personal, social, quantitative literacy to help obtain mastery of the knowledge and skills within our states curriculum. Our science curriculum is developed to help students increase their abilities to be successful academically using their critical thinking skills during inquiry experiences. Throughout the year, the science curriculum will cover a wide range of content. Listed below are the topics that we will be covering.
Unit 1: Scientific Inquiry
Unit 2: Organisms and Cells
Unit 3: Chemistry (Chemical and Physical Properties)
Unit 4: Physics (Motion and Force)
Unit 5: Earth Structure, Processes, and Cycles
Unit 6: Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Unit 7: Watersheds/Wetlands and Soil
Unit 8: Fossil Fuels and Alternative Forms of Energy
Intervention Enrichment Block (IEB)
At the beginning of the year, students will be tested based on their current reading level. All students will be placed into small groups, which are designed to help teachers provide powerful small group instruction to help enhance each students reading level. Some of the components that will be taught during small group instruction are:
-explicit attention to genre and to the features of nonfiction and fiction texts
-close reading to expand comprehension and critical thinking
-use of writing about reading to express ideas that focuses on a particular audience
-working on sounds, letters, and words in various activities to help students break down words
Math
Students will develop a foundation of math concepts and skills through a variety of independent and collaborative activities that are aligned with Pennsylvania State Standards. The concepts and skills that will be implemented in the curriculum are:
-Make sense of problems and perserve in solving them
-Reason abstractly and quantatively
-Model with mathematics
-Look for and make use of structure
-Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
The Units that will be taught throughout the year are:
Unit 1: Ratios and Rates
Unit 2: Arithmetic Operations
Unit 3: Rational Numbers and Coordinate Plane
Unit 4: Algebraic Concepts
Unit 5: Geometry
Unit 6: Statistics
English Language Arts
Our language arts classes are primarily driven by the skills-based standards defined by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education the PA Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. Curricular highlights include organization skills and strategies, active reading strategies taught through short stories from a variety of genres in fiction and non-fiction, grammar/ composition, and spelling. Homework, class work, quizzes, tests, and projects will be used to assess student learning.
Social Studies
In Grade 6, students learn about citizenship by investigating significant periods of United States history from The Civil War to the economy in the 1960s. Historical content will be broken into units that are aligned to the Pennsylvania State Standards. The Units are listed below.
Unit 1: Geography: Map Skills
Unit 2: Civil War & U.S. Reconstruction
Unit 3: Industrial Revolution & Gilded Age
Unit 4: Immigration and Westward Expansion
Unit 5: WWI & The Roaring 20s
Unit 6: The Great Depression & WWII
Unit 7: The Cold War & Civil Rights
Unit 8: John F. Kennedy, LBJ, & Vietnam
Unit 9: U.S. Civics, Government, & Economy