Learning areas
The four Alberta Grade 6 subjects covered here, written for whoever is helping. Each page gives the expectations, what the June achievement test covers, the vocabulary, and things to try at home.
English language arts and literature
Reading and writing
Reasons that hold up in a discussion, reading between the lines, revising for voice, accurate proofreading, and how texts persuade.
Open reading and writing
Mathematics
Below zero and beyond
Negative numbers, powers and primes, multiplying and dividing decimals, fractions with different denominators, rates and ratios, equations, the four quadrants, area and volume, functions and relative frequency.
Open below zero and beyond
Science
How things work
Heating and cooling, forces inside and outside objects, choosing energy resources, climate and climate change, ecosystems and photosynthesis, the solar system, loops and conditions in code, and the hypothesis.
Open how things work
Physical education and wellness
Moving and feeling good
Training principles, movement patterns, resolving conflict, respecting different views, thinking through risks, how access shapes what people eat, growing up, and the real cost of borrowing money.
Open moving and feeling good
The other subjects
Alberta also teaches social studies, art and music in Grade 6. None of them is covered here.
The expectations above are paraphrased from Alberta Education's Grade 6 programs of study, published on new LearnAlberta.