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🔬 6th Grade · ScienceMS-ESS2-6Unit 3: Water cycle, weather & climate

Ocean and atmosphere circulation

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🎯 Objective: Students model how unequal heating and rotation cause circulation that shapes climate.

Lesson outline

  1. Convection demo.
  2. Map currents.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one effect.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-ESS2-6

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Earth & Space Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Model the water cycle
  • Explain how air masses produce weather
  • Model how unequal heating shapes climate

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Water cycle, weather & climate”

  1. Water cycle
  2. Air masses and fronts
  3. Ocean and atmosphere circulation
  4. Climate change

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