Middle-school physical science · Grade 6
Which Design Is Better Supported?
Compare matched results across trials, choose a sleeve design using relevant evidence, and keep the conclusion within the tested conditions.
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- Audience / fit
- Intended Grade 6 science; selected Grades 6–8 standards ideas
- Teaching or planning target
- Compare temperature results across trials, support a sleeve choice, and limit the claim. Includes its prerequisite mini-lesson.
- Essential prerequisites
- Read a small table, subtract whole-number temperatures, recognize °C, and distinguish starting and final readings. The included mini-lesson teaches these moves before the main task.
- Preparation
- Read the quick start and choose the student pages; preparation time depends on the selected route.
- Use time
- Allow about 36–44 minutes for the full route, 10–15 minutes for a reteach, or 5–8 minutes for the later check. Planning estimate; adjust for your class.
- Materials
- Paper and pencil. Optional: calculator, number line, projection, pointing, or an oral explanation. No lab equipment is required.
- What to print
- Use the stage-specific student choices below and the matching teacher guide. Give independent, new-evidence and later-assessment pages only at their intended stage.
Start teaching
Print the bridge, model and guided practice first, then give the separate independent check. Quick Check in the original files repeats that independent task; it is not fresh evidence. Choose a reteach page from the teacher guide and retain the later assessment until its intended use. Use only the selected stage, not the complete student packet.
Choose a stage and format
Give only the stage being used. Keep later tasks and all teacher keys with the teacher until needed.
- Prerequisite bridge, model and guided practice · PDF (3 pages) · Prerequisite bridge, model and guided practice · editable Word · Prerequisite bridge, model and guided practice · browser copy
- Independent check · PDF (1 page) · Independent check · editable Word · Independent check · browser copy
- Compare the measurements · PDF (1 page) · Compare the measurements · editable Word · Compare the measurements · browser copy
- Use all results and limit the claim · PDF (1 page) · Use all results and limit the claim · editable Word · Use all results and limit the claim · browser copy
- Fresh recheck after reteaching · PDF (1 page) · Fresh recheck after reteaching · editable Word · Fresh recheck after reteaching · browser copy
- Later assessment · PDF (1 page) · Later assessment · editable Word · Later assessment · browser copy
Formats and all files
Complete reference files may include teaching, independent tasks, later evidence or teacher answers. Keep them with the teacher; use the separate stage selections above for handouts.
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Kit 3 is a self-contained teaching kit. It includes a prerequisite mini-lesson, a worked sleeve comparison, guided practice, a fresh independent task, two focused reteaches with new checks, and a later task about cooling. You can use Kit 3 independently or after Kits 1 and 2 in the foundation collection.
- Prerequisites
- Read a small table, subtract whole-number temperatures, recognize °C, and distinguish starting and final readings. The included mini-lesson teaches these moves before the main task.
- Audience
- For Grade 6. Related NGSS expectations span Grades 6–8; check your local course placement.
- Materials
- Paper and pencil. Optional: calculator, number line, projection, pointing, or an oral explanation. No lab equipment is required.
- Teaching time
- Allow about 36–44 minutes for the full route, 10–15 minutes for a reteach, or 5–8 minutes for the later check.
Constructed teaching data: these values were invented for this activity, not collected in an experiment. These records do not establish the actual performance of real sleeves or products.
Choose what to print
- Teach the Lesson — 4 pages
- Use a Quick Check — 1 page; the lesson’s independent task
- Reteach: Compare the Measurements — 1 page, including a cooling check
- Reteach: Use All Results and Limit the Claim — 2 pages, including a follow-up check
- Use a Later Check — 1 page, a new cooling task
Each selection includes its needed setup, table, disclosure and prompts. Match the task headings to the teacher guide. Quick Check repeats the lesson’s independent task; save Later Check for a new response after teaching.
Student mini-lesson
Teacher quick start
Complete student packet
- Full student packet — PDF, 8 pages
- Full student packet — editable Word file
- Read the student packet as HTML
Teacher explanations and keys
- Teacher guide and complete key — PDF, 8 pages
- Teacher guide and complete key — editable Word file
- Read the teacher guide as HTML
Accept an accurate labeled diagram, pointed-to data with an oral explanation, or connected prose. Clarify an unclear response and its access needs before assigning a reteach. The teacher guide supplies the explanation, accepted alternatives and a next-task decision.
About the materials
Supplied-data analysis supports selected components of the energy and design expectations. It does not show that a learner designed, constructed and tested a physical device. Read the source and standards notes.
Editable data and package
Download the classroom package ZIP with student and teacher files, print selections and constructed data. Teaching data (JSON). The CSV tables are also included in the ZIP.
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Do not include student names or identifiable work in an issue report. Page revision: 15 October 2026; classroom files retain their own editions.