6th Grade

Learn about the different ways in which natural resources may be categorized as renewable, nonrenewable, or inexhaustible, and evaluated as commodities.

This unit teaches students about the importance of natural resources to their personal lives.

Explore the current energy sources used by California utility companies to provide electricity.

All living things, including humans, depend on both the physical environment and the interactions among organisms.

Students learn about the roles organisms play in ecosystems within a new context, biomes.

Rivers move materials within a watershed and particular locations have been found throughout history to be more suitable for habitation than others.