Grade 6

A full year: what the parts of a computer actually do, how it counts in nothing but 0s and 1s, where your files live, how to write and follow an algorithm, and your first look at the tags behind a web page.

5 units · 11 skills

Agreement with a tricky subject, joining ideas across sentences, working out a word from its context, the kinds of pronouns, and why a writer wrote it.

2 units · 5 skills

How to read a map and use its scale, what mountains, plateaus and plains actually are, and where rain comes from and where a river goes.

2 units · 6 skills

Negative numbers, highest common factors and lowest common multiples, ratio, unit rate and percentages, your first letters for numbers and one-step equations, nets and the area of triangles and parallelograms, and averages of a data set.

5 units · 12 skills

Magnets and what makes something count as moving, sorting materials by what you can see through them and what dissolves in water, water in its three states and round the water cycle, reading a thermometer, and what separates the living from the non-living.

4 units · 6 skills