Alberta – Grade 6 Science Alignment Guide

The Switch Classroom Alberta Grade 6 Science curriculum alignment guide connects classroom lessons with Alberta’s provincial science and social studies standards. Each activity is mapped to general learner outcomes such as analyzing and interpreting data, planning and conducting investigations, evaluating impacts, designing and refining systems, and applying concepts related to energy and technology. This ensures teachers can meet requirements while giving students hands-on opportunities to explore energy topics.

The guide highlights alignment to science areas including electrical principles and technologies, environmental chemistry, energy flow in global systems, and interactions and ecosystems. It also connects to social studies themes such as resource development, economic and environmental trade-offs, policy decisions, and local and global impacts.

Featured lessons include Introduction to Energy Choices and The Demand Curve video, which help students analyze how energy decisions are shaped by demand. Labs such as Science of Wind, Science of Solar, and Science of Hydropower encourage experimentation and critical thinking. Additional activities include the Energy Matchmaking Gallery Walk, the Introduction to Efficiency video, and labs on nuclear, bioenergy, coal, and oil.

With the Alberta Grade 6 Science curriculum alignment guide, teachers gain a clear roadmap for meeting curriculum goals while engaging students in data-driven, inquiry-based learning.

• Organizing Idea Energy: Understandings of the physical world are deepened by investigating matter and energy.

• Guiding Question: How are energy resources used?

• Learning Outcome: Students investigate energy resources and explain factors that influence their use.