Course Sample for Exploring God’s World with Sixth Grade Science Homeschool Science Curriculum

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Exploring God’s World with Sixth Grade Science
By Deana Pittman

Lesson 2
Introduction to the Kingdoms

Living things are created in all shapes and sizes; they all have different abilities and different niches. Some living things are able to move around and need to find their food; some living things cannot move around, but they can make their own food. There are many living things that are so small they cannot be seen with the naked eye; some cause disease and some can make us well. With all this variety, it was necessary to figure out a way to organize all these lifeforms.

Although not all scientists agree, there are five basic kingdoms (or categories) of living things.

• Plants
• Animals
• Bacteria (eubacteria, archaebacteria)
• Protists
• Fungi

(Please note: The Bacteria Kingdom can be counted as one, also called Monera, or split into two as explained above: eubacteria and archaebacteria.)

Course Outline for Exploring God’s World with Sixth Grade Science Homeschool Science Curriculum

• Lesson One: Introduction to Life Science
• Lesson Two: Introduction to the Kingdoms
• Lesson Three: The Life Cycle of a Plant
• Lesson Four: Introduction to Animal Classification
• Lesson Five: Animal Life Cycles
• Lesson Six: Relationship of Living Things
• Lesson Seven: Introduction to Human Anatomy
• Lesson Eight: The Nervous System
• Lesson Nine: Problems with the Nervous System
• Lesson Ten: The Lymphatic System
• Lesson Eleven: The Circulatory System
• Lesson Twelve: The Immune System
• Lesson Thirteen: Infectious Diseases
• Lesson Fourteen: Introduction to Earth Science
• Lesson Fifteen: The Earth’s Surface
• Lesson Sixteen: Biomes
• Lesson Seventeen: Weather and the Atmosphere
• Lesson Eighteen: Conserving Our Natural Resources
• Lesson Nineteen: Introduction to Physical Science
• Lesson Twenty: Mechanical Energy
• Lesson Twenty-One: Light
• Lesson Twenty-Two: Introduction to Chemical Energy
• Lesson Twenty-Three: Photosynthesis
• Lesson Twenty-Four: Food Chains and Food Webs
• Lesson Twenty-Five: Introduction to Astronomy
• Lesson Twenty-Six: Seasons and Stars
• Lesson Twenty-Seven: Application Activity – Just How Big Is Jupiter?
• Lesson Twenty-Eight: Introduction to Matter
• Lesson Twenty-Nine: Particles of Matter
• Lesson Thirty: Periodic Table of Elements
• Lesson Thirty-One: The Structure of Atoms
• Lesson Thirty-Two: The Scientific Method
• Lesson Thirty-Three: Graphing and Data
• Lesson Thirty-Four: Introduction to Genetics
• Lesson Thirty-Five: Chemistry Review Activity
• Lesson Thirty-Six: Science Activities Galore