1. The document provides a syllabus for a 6th grade science and English course that covers four periods over two semesters. 2. The science portion covers topics like cells, classification of living things, ecosystems, force and motion, and work and energy. It includes learning objectives, vocabulary, activities and resources for each topic. 3. The syllabus outlines assessments including evaluations, workshops, laboratory work, videos and models. It also provides two science textbooks and guides that will be used resources.

1. LEVEL: SIXTH GRADE
Syllabus for Science and English
SCIENCE
Period
Environment
Science Contents
Thinking processes
Linguistic
contents
Objectives
Vocabulary
Activities
Resources
•
Evaluation
Culture and Society
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1. CELL
•
Cell theory, the microscope.
Describing the
anatomy and
physiology of the cell.
•
Cell structure and function.
•
Difference between plant and
Present to be
Affirmative:
•
I
Noun + to be+
complement
Cellular Nutrition, diffusion,
osmosis, active transport
•
•
LIVING
•
Negative:
Make Plant´s and animal’s
cell models.
Endocytosis, Exocytosis,
Cell movement.
1. LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION IN
LIVING THINGS.
•
•
•
II
•
•
•
•
•
Setting characteristics
and differences
between unicellular
and multicellular
organisms
WORKSHOPS
LABORATORY
•
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
Development of a concept map on cell theory.
•
BUILD MODELS
Using recycled materials, we will develop a cellular model.
Microscope observation of plant and animal tissues
.
Describe the organization
of a being
•
GROUP WORKSHOPS
•
SCIENCE TOURS
•
VIDEOS:
CELL
Organelles.
Plasma.
Membrane nuclear.
Membrane.
Nucleus Cytoplasm.
LEVELS OF
ORGANIZATION
Cell,
Tissue, Organ.
System.
Diffusion.
Osmosis.
Active transport.
Endocytosis.
Exocytosis.
Interrogative:
To be + noun +
complement?
Overview of the classification of
living things.
Linnaeus and classification
systems.
Darwin and the evolution of living
beings.
Taxonomy Chategories.
The domains of the kingdoms of
nature.
Characteristics of the different
kingdoms.
Describing features
that differentiate the
organisms from
different realms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=2s87SyRh3t0&list=PL144158E7C90FBBDB
multicellular structure
different animal tissues,
plants and their functions
Identify and explain the cellular
structures and their function, use
conceptual maps and schemes
•
Build cellular models.
•
Make a workshop about the
video of function of the cells.
•
Their responsibility and
behavior in class permit a good
environment to learn.
•
Values the contributions of
scientific knowledge to health
and life.
CLASSIFICATION OF
LIVING THINGS
Classify different living
things through categories-
Affirmative:
Compare each kingdom
according to anatomical
and functional
characteristic
Identify nutrition
processes in different
Kingdoms
Monera.
Taxonomy.
Domains.
Protists.
Bacteria.
Algae.
Fungi.
Chategory
We will read and analyze a comic about generalities of
classification.
We will make a friso that shows organism from the
different kingdoms with their characteristics and scientific
name.
Using simple materials, we will make experimental designs
which show that plants produce oxygen during
photosynthesis.
•
BOOK:
•
GUIDES
The students will make a
project to learn about the
nutrients, health, and the
relationship between the
good food and health, and
the first steep is: recognize
the good and bad habits in
our society, and design a
diet were they apply the
concepts learned.
THE ACTIVITIES ARE:
• Socialize with the
partnerships the
research.
.
•
Classify the organisms in the
school area, in the different
kingdoms.
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FOR THE FIRST
SEMESTER:
• Make a family test
about food habits and
diet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFuEo2ccTPA
Simple present
Noun + verb (s)
+ complement
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=o1GQyciJaTA&list=PL144158E7C90FBBDB
Unicellular and multicellular
organisms.
Tissues, organs and systems.
Plant and animal tissues.
1. CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING
•
Differentiate between
prokaryotic and eukaryotic
animal and plant cells.
Noun + to be +
not +
complement
Cellular respiration.
•
Identify the cell structures
and their function.
animal cell.
2. VITAL FUNCTIONS OF THE CELL.
GUIDES
•
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic
Analyzing the
importance of meeting
the vital processes in
the cell.
•
Demonstrative
adjectives
•
Make a partial about the
characteristics or each kingdom,
where we found comparative
characters.

2. Negative:
Noun + do /
does + not +
verb +
complement.
Interrogative:
2.
Do / does +
noun + verb +
complement?
OVERVIEW OF THE VITAL
FUNCTIONS OF THE DIFFERENT
LIVING THINGS.
•
•
•
Stages of heterotrophic nutrition.
Ingestion, digestion, absorption,
circulation, metabolism (anabolism
- catabolism).
•
Always,
usually, often,
sometimes,
hardly ever,
never.
•
Food and nutrients. Macronutrients,
micronutrients, bio-composites and
bio elements.
Ving +
complenent
•
Importance and role of food.
Nutritional diseases.
Interrogative:
•
Aerobic and anaerobic respiration,
direct breathing and indirect.
To be + noun +
Ving+ comple
•
Circulation and transport of
substances.
Transport across the cell
membrane through the conducting
vessels and through circulation
systems.
BUILD MODELS
GROUP WORKSHOPS
•
SCIENCE TOURS
•
VIDEOS:
.
VITAL FUNCTIONS
complement?
•
Identify circulatory
structures at different
levels of evolution of living
beings. Participate and
reports of laboratory
practice.
Know and practice the
rules for maintaining good
respiratory health
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
•
Analyze the processes of
absorption in plants.
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
groups of living things
LABORATORY
•
Autotrophic and heterotrophic
nutrition.
WORKSHOPS
•
Frequency
Adverbs.
Autotrophic.
HeterotrophicIngestion.
Digestion. Absorption.
Metabolism.
Aerobic Anaerobic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwOlAqQoLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38BmgPcZ_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYL_8gv7RiE
Present
continuous.
Analyzing differences
and similarities of
nutrition, circulation
Affirmative:
and respiration
processes in living
things
Subject + to be
+ Ving +
Complement
Negative:
Subject + to be
+ not +
III
1. VITAL FUNCTIONS OF THE
DIFFERENT LEVEL LIVING.
Countable and
uncountable.
How much,
how
•
•
Digestive, respiratory and
circulatory systems in living
organisms.
Ingestion, digestion and absorption
in heterotrophic, Monera, protists,
many
Some, any and
a lot of.
Recognize the involved
organs in the digestive
processes in heterotrophic
organisms.
Value the importance of
appropriate diet.
Know and practice the
rules for maintaining good
•
VITAL FUNCTIONS AT
ROLLING
Digestive.
Cutaneous.
Tracheal. Branchial.
Lung. Respiration.
Circulation.
Model the processes of nutrition, breathing and circulation
of living organisms, using recycled materials.
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10: 0534397557 / ISBN 13:9780534397555).
Build and describes in a model of any
living organism the different structures
of digestive, respiratory and circulatory
systems.
FOR THE SECOND
SEMESTER:
The students will make a
project to learn about the
nature, environment and
the men role in the
conservation of earth for
the next generations.

3. •
GUIDES
•
WORKSHOPS
•
LABORATORY
•
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
•
BUILD MODELS
•
GROUP WORKSHOPS
•
SCIENCE TOURS
•
VIDEOS:
fungi and animals.
health.
•
•
Breathing in Monera, fungi, plants
and animals.
Circulation in unicellular organisms,
movement in plants and animals.
2. DIGESTIVE, CIRCULATORY
AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM IN
HUMANS.
•
Anatomy and physiology.
•
These three systems´ diseases
Value and practice the
rules for maintaining good
health
Describing the
anatomy and
physiology of the
digestive,
Circulatory and
respiratory living
beings
There is there
are.
Adverbs of
manner
Identify respiratory
structures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s06XzaKqELk
In the different stages of
evolution of living beings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM5kMSjBrmw
Participate and reports of
practices laboratory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM5kMSjBrmw
THE ACTIVITIES ARE:
• the students with his
family visit the
bogota`s botanical
garden and learn about
our biodiversity and
conservation of natural
ecosystems
• In the socialization of
this activity, the
students will make a
pact with the Mother
Nature and explain the
new good habits to
conservation and
rational use of natural
resources.
Know and practice the
rules to keep good
respiratory health.
IV
1. ECOSYSTEMS AND THEIR
ORGANIZATION
Comparatives
and
superlatives.
To be past.
•
Abiotic and biotic factors.
•
Levels of organization of biotic
(biosphere, ecosystem, community,
population and species).
•
Types of Aquatic Ecosystems and
its operation.
•
Analyzing the
interaction between
factors
Affirmative:
Noun + to be in
past +
complement
Recognize the
characteristics of living
things and nonliving
thingsIdentify the importance of
the organization of biotic
in aquatic ecosystems.
Analyze the difference
between biotic factors of
aquatic ecosystems and
its impact on them
Making of an album
that recreates the several Colombian aquatic ecosystems.
ECOSYSTEM
Biotic.
Abiotic.
Biosphere.
Ecosystem.
Community.
Population.
Species.
•
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Interactions between organisms,
trophic levels and adaptations.
Negative:
Noun + to be in
past + not +
complement
Interrogative:
Describing the
importance of the
levels of organization
of living organisms in
To be in past +
noun +
complement?
•
GUIDES
•
WORKSHOPS
•
LABORATORY
•
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
biotic and abiotic
factors in the
ecosystem.
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
•
BUILD MODELS
•
GROUP WORKSHOPS
FOR THE SECOND
SEMESTER:
The students will make a
project to learn about the
nature, environment and
the men role in the
conservation of earth for
the next generations.
THE ACTIVITIES ARE:
• The students analyze
ecological footprint, in
water, food, energy
and materials in a
school, home and
personal life.
• They will make an
informative posters of
their results.

4. Simple past.
Affirmative:
Noun + verb in
past +
complement
•
SCIENCE TOURS
•
aquatic ecosystems
VIDEOS:
Negative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wpbhnom70
Noun + did +
not + verb +
complement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_KmOTYfRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RBHfjZsUQ
Interrogative:
Did + noun +
verb +
complement?
1.
I
FORCE AND MOTION.
Describing
characteristics related
to the strength and
Demonstrative
adjecti
movement
adjectives
•
Reference system, displacement
Present to be
and path traveled, velocity, speed
and acceleration.
Identify concepts related
to force and motion.
.
FORCE
Reference
system.
Displacement.
Velocity.
Speed.
Acceleration.
Through fun activities, it is worked concepts related to
force and motion
•
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GUIDES
•
Rectilinear and curvilinear motion.
Affirmative:
•
WORKSHOPS
•
Force, force measurement, force
direction, some common forces, net
force, equilibrium of bodies.
Noun + to be+
complement
•
LABORATORY
•
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
•
BUILD MODELS
•
GROUP WORKSHOPS
•
SCIENCE TOURS
•
VIDEOS:
PHYSICAL
•
Newton's Laws.
Negative:
Noun + to be
+ not +
complement
Interrogative:
To be + noun
+
complement?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPWQGvWODDA

5. Prepositions
of places
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVMlmL0BPQ
Possessive
adjectives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sabH4bJsxWA
Articles a, an
and the
II
2.
WORK AND ENERGY.
•
Definition and characteristics of
work Units.
Simple exercises.
Energy Concept.
Different forms of energy:
characteristics Principle of the
Conservation of Energy.
Simple exercises.
•
•
•
•
Describing the
importance between
different forms of
energy
Simple
present
Affirmative:
Noun + verb
(s) +
complement
Analyze the
characteristics of work
and energy and its
importance nowdays.
WORK AND ENERGY
Chemical.
Mechanical.
Wind.
Using the game reaches the star students work concepts
related to work and energy.
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Atomic.
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10: 0534397557 / ISBN 13:9780534397555).
•
GUIDES
Negative:
•
WORKSHOPS
Noun + do /
does + not +
verb +
complement.
•
LABORATORY
•
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
•
BUILD MODELS
•
GROUP WORKSHOPS
•
SCIENCE TOURS
•
VIDEOS:
Interrogative:
Do / does +
noun + verb +
complement?
Frequency
Adverbs.
Always,
usually, often,
sometimes.
sometimes,
hardly ever,
never.
Present
continuous.
Affirmative:
Subject + to
be + Ving +
Complement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImzW4ifJdj4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcStpg3i5V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsRzTl6Q24E

6. Negative:
Subject + to
be + not +
Ving +
comple.
complenent
Interrogative:
To be + noun
+ Ving+
complement?
•
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LIFE ON EARTH, TERESA AUDESIRK AND GERALD AUDESIRK,
5/E, ISBN-10: 0131755358, ISBN-13: 9780131755352,
COPYRIGHT: 2009.
BIOLOGY STARR 10 ED TEST BANK STARR, TAGGART, (ISBN
10: 0534397557 / ISBN 13:9780534397555).
Countable
and
uncountable.
•
Properties and states of matter.
•
Nature of the material,
elements, compounds, atoms
and molecules.
•
•
Some, any
and a lot of.
Characterizing the
matter according for its
properties
SUBJECT AND ITS
PROPERTIES
Identify the properties of
matter
There is there
are.
Impenetrability
Inertia
Porosity.
Density.
Adverbs of
manner
The atom, atomic models
subatomic particles.
Mass. Weight.
Volume
Using recycled materials, students will make the different
atomic models.
LABORATORY
POWER POINT SLIDES
•
CONCEPTUAL MAPS
•
Develop a timeline which shows events related to the
history of chemistry.
•
•
How much,
how many
WORKSHOPS
BUILD MODELS
•
History of Chemistry.
GUIDES
GROUP WORKSHOPS
SCIENCE TOURS
•
•
III
MATTER AND ITS
PROPERTIES.
•
•
3.
VIDEOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_m7Jv5ucc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtekl8A5aEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhTm4k_TLFI
IV
1.
•
METALS.
Describing the
reactions that metals
have with oxygen
Comparatives
and
superlatives
Characteristics and physical
properties.
To be past.
•
Location in the periodic table.
•
Metal properties.
•
Reactions between metals and
Identify the main
characteristics of metals
and nonmetals.
METALS
State of aggregation.
Conductivity. Ductility.
Malleability.
Elasticity
Color
They conduct a
experiment
Simple display metals reacting with oxygen.
•
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COPYRIGHT: 2009.
BIOLOGY STARR 10 ED TEST BANK STARR, TAGGART, (ISBN
10: 0534397557 / ISBN 13:9780534397555).
Affirmative:
•
Noun + to be
in past +
complement
GUIDES

7. ENGLISH
Contents
First Term.
Communicative Objetives
Children will able to:
1.
Where are my socks?
Linguistic Contens
•
•
Demonstrative adjectives
Present to be
Describe things and places.
2. Describe your room
Affirmative:
Noun + to be+ complement
• My bedroom is a mess.
•
Vocabulary
Nouns:
Guitar, bathroom, CD player, camera, wallet, mobile phone,
cardboard, posters, waste bin, computer, notebook
Prepositions of place In, on, on the left, on the
right, behind, in front of, under.
Possessive adjectives
Articles a, an and the
Children will be able to:
•
•
Talking about different ecosystems.
1.
Second Term
Describe animals and their habitats and
classify them into wild or domestic.
Affirmative:
Noun + verb (s) + complement
•
Describing different places and animals.
.
2.
Talk about plants according to the different
ecosystems.
Negative:
Noun + do / does + not + verb + complement.
•
Camel lives in desert
• Animals and plants in the world.
• Habitats
• Weather
Simple present
Reading for information on geographical
features and discussion.
Geography:
North, east, west, south, south-west, mountain, lake, river, forest,
desert, coast, capital city, population, country, state.
Kingdoms of Nature:
Animalia, plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista.
Interrogative:
Do / does + noun + verb + complement?
Animals:
Tiger, goat, giraffe, eagle, dog, penguin, elephant, snake, rabbit,
mosquito, sheep, cat, shark, ostrich, cow.
•
Frequency Adverbs.
Always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never.
Plants
Eucalyptus, pine, willow tree, oak.
•
Present continuous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFuEo2ccTPA
-Ask students to describe their room.
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9pqST72is
-Make a model of your bedroom and make an oral
presentation describing.
•
Workshops
Cultural
Pictures
Dictionaries
•
Possessive Adjectives:
My, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Interrogative:
To be + noun + complement?
•
•
•
Evaluation
•
•
Demonstratives (Positive, Negative, Questions and short answers).
This/these that/those
Resources
•
Talking about places using prepositions of
place.
Comparing and analyzing the different life
styles according to each region.
•
Negative:
Noun + to be + not + complement
• A room in the country
Linguistic
Skills
Flashcards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ1JaYxBH40
•
Readings
•
Project:
MY FAVORITE ANIMAL
+Using crosswords or other puzzles, to value
topics related to ecosystems.
Each student chooses a
specific animal in order to
describe its habitat and
behave. During the term,
students prepare a poster
about this issue and exhibit in
a fair.
+Prepare a simple dialogue between the customer
in a restaurant and a waiter which evidence the
vocabulary seen in class.
Project: INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL FOOD
Inquire about the typical
foods from different countries
of the world, in order to
establish similarities and
differences between them.
Workshops
•
Organize students by groups
according to Colombian
regions. Then, they have to
show us the different king of
architecture of the region
using pictures.
+Ask students to design a lottery using pictures
and vocabulary worked in class.
Videos
•
Project:
MY COUNTRY
Posters
Weather: hot, cold, windy, sunny, foggy, rainy, warm.
Affirmative:
Subject + to be + Ving + Complement
Negative:
Subject + to be + not + Ving + complenent
Interrogative:
To be + noun + Ving+ complement?
Third Term
This is yummy!
•
•
•
•
Breakfast around the world.
Food facts and myths.
Ordering food and drink.
Healthy and Unhealthy
food
Children will be able to:
1.
Order and offer food and drink
2.
Discuss about the facts and myths on food
around the world.
3.
Identify healthy and unhealthy food.
•
•
•
•
•
Countable and uncountable.
How much, how many
Some, any and a lot of.
There is there are.
Adverbs of manner
•
•
Listening and reading passages related to
food around the world.
Discuss
.
Nouns:
Pizza, hamburger, cafe, cheese, beer, pepper, sausage, sweet corn,
pineapple, mushrooms, butter, cereal, milk, eggs, oranges, jam, grapes,
a banana, cheese, yoghurt, orange juice, coffee, water, tea, fruit,
biscuits, hot dog, fish, chicken.
Adverbs of manner:
Politely, loudly, rudely, badly, slowly, quietly, carefully.
Countable and uncountable Nouns
Countable: eggs, apples, books, CDs.
Uncountable: milk, butter, money, music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3NAteLytlQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_DcnnPmX4
•
•
Real material
Readings
•
Pictures
•
Workshops
•
•
Flashcards
International Cookbooks
+Using crosswords or other puzzles, to value
topics related to international food.
Starting last activity, students
will be organize in groups
according to the country they
consulted and prepare an
exhibition in which their
peers explain the ingredients
in their dishes and their
origin, in their expressions
using adverbs of manner as
class learning.

8. Fourth Term
Children will be able to:
Walking with dinosaurs.
1. Talk about the differences between our world in
past and present.
•
Comparatives and superlatives.
•
To be past.
Affirmative:
Noun + to be in past + complement
•
•
2. Compare and contrast different animals
(dinosaurs).
Negative:
Noun + to be in past + not + complement
The past is better
The world nowadays
Interrogative:
To be in past + noun + complement?
•
Simple past.
Affirmative:
Noun + verb in past + complement
Negative:
Noun + did + not + verb + complement
Interrogative:
Did + noun + verb + complement?
Speaking about the animals that don´t exist anymore.
Living things: animal and plants.
Read stories about animals in the past.
Nonliving things: house, gate, pot, fence, ball, bags, books, clothes.
Describe stories that occurred in the past paying
attention to the pronunciation of the regular past /ɪd/
as in accepted, /d/ as in recognized and /t/ as in liked.
Adjectives:
Big, old, dangerous, poisonous, expensive, small, slow, heavy, hot,
cold.
Irregular Adjectives
Goodbetterbest
Bad worse  worst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYa3m_SXoAk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0FOZ0-VpcU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEBufNMXtbY
•
Videos
•
Readings
•
Workshops
•
Toys
•
Pictures
Ask the students to write a short story about
their favorite dinosaur.
Students divided in groups create a scene about
animals in the past and another about farm and
wild animals today.
Project:
HOW CAN I PRESERVE
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
IN MY CITY?
Students choose a plant or an
animal in order to ask for
information about it and
adopt a single one for
looking after it.