Grade Six Lesson Activities for StudentLink

Web sites are changing all the time. Preview each activity before using it with a class. If you discover dead links in any of the lessons below, we'd like to hear about it. This set of handouts was last checked and updated in July 2007.
Grade	Subject	STUDENTLINK GRADE SIX LESSON ACTIVITIES	Back to the Library
5/6	Social Studies	Here is an activity sheet for grades five to eight on Prime Ministers of Canada with a focus on Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
6	Social Studies	Iroquois Longhouses from the Royal Ontario Museum web site. The page takes the students through an archeological dig. Thanks, Margot!
6	Social Studies	Aboriginal Peoples. Learn about great Native Canadians using the Kids' Stop web site from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
6	Science	This activity introduces grade sixes to the process of Scientific Classification in Biology. Written with grade six in mind....
6	Science	Here's an activity on classification.
6	Environment	An excellent activity on composting.
6	Media Awareness	Jo Cool or Jo Fool?
6	Science	This is a five page lesson package on the Characteristics of Flight.
6	Science	Astronomer Sports Cards! Who woulda thunk it! Students also build a data chart on the Nine Planets. Have a look!
6	Arts	The artist Vincent VanGogh.
6	Canadiana	Facts on one of Canada's busiest cities.
6	Current Events	Teacher Marla Zupan has created an exploration activity for the Time (Magazine) for Kids website. Have a look.
6	Language Arts	This exercise will introduce students to KidsClick and reinforce the Dewey decimal system. Thanks to Marla Zupan for this contribution,
6	Current Events	This activity utilizes the popular MSNBC website to examine current events.
6	Literacy	This exercise uses the Infoplease website. Students learn to carry out an effective information search.
6	Media Literacy	DSBN teacher Natalie Edgar created this activity on Ad busting. Thanks.
6	Environment	An exercise in Global Citizenship from the StudentLink team.
6	Themes	This exercise focuses on the sanctity of Christmas for Catholic students.
6	Themes	Internet 101 is an introduction to the web.
6	Themes	Safe Kids is a follow-up to Internet 101.
6	Literacy	Students learn the basics of Web Page Creation.
6	Catholic	Students gain background regarding the elements of the Mass.
6	Computing	Teacher Sarah Vance has contributed this excellent spreadsheet lesson. Thanks Sarah!
6	Computing	The extension to the lesson directly above.
6	Environment	An introduction exercise about ecosystems.
6	Literacy/SS	An introduction to the role of the Canadian Coast Guard.
6	Environment	Healthy Schools
6	Health	Know your Ontario Fruits and Veggies.

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