6th Grade
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6-1: Colony on Mars
Databases
Encyclopedias
Websites
- CNN: "NASA Mission Detects First Seismic Waves Traveling Through the Center of Mars"
- CNN: "This Is How We Should Build on Mars"
- Discover: "Astronauts Get Sick, Too. Here's the Tech That Could Grow Medicine on Mars"
- NASA: "Exercising in Space"
- NASA: "Fission Surface Power"
- NASA: "How to Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation on Mars"
- NASA: "The Human Body in Space"
- NASA" "Human Spaceflight Hazards"
- NASA: "Mars Exploration Rovers"
- NASA: "NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions"
- NASA: "Science Investigations"
- NASA Mars: "Electrical Power"
- NASA Science: Mars Communication
- NASA Science: Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment
- NASA Solar System Exploration: Mars
- The Planetary Society: "Your Guide to Water on Mars"
- Science the Wire: "What Do You Actually Do With Garbage on Mars?"
- Universe Magazine: "First Plant for Growing on Mars Selected"
- UNSW Sydney: Mars Settlement
6-2: Colony on the Moon
Databases
Encyclopedias
Websites
- BBC: "The Epic Quest to Build a Permanent Moon Base"
- "Headspace: How Space Travel Affects Astronaut Mental Health"
- NASA: Artemis Mission ("Why We Are Going to the Moon")
- NASA: "Gravity of the Moon's Crust"
- NASA: "Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Soil"
- NASA: "NASA Successfully Extracts Oxygen from Lunar Soil Stimulant"
- NASA: "How NASA Will Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation at the Moon"
- NASA: "Solar Power Investigation to Launch on Lunar Lander"
- Science: "Moon Safe for Long-Term Human Exploration"
6-3: Colony on the Ocean Floor
Databases
Encyclopedias
Websites
- "AI for Ocean Exploration: Is an AI Colony Possible in the Deep Sea?"
- Atlas Obscura: "What It's Like to Live on the Sea Floor"
- BBC: "Will We Ever Live in Underwater Cities?"
- EPA's Web Archive: "Geothermal Energy"
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "Ocean Floor Features"
- NOAA: Ocean Exploration
- Oceana: "Sea Floor Habitat Types"
- Ocean Info
- PBS
- Sciencing: "Plants That Live on the Ocean Floor"
- "Scientists Map Huge Undersea Fresh-Water Aquifer Off U.S. Northeast"
- Unveiled: "What if We Colonized the Ocean?"
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "Fresh Water Below the Sea Floor?"
Great Speeches Project
Project Guidelines
- You will be assigned a great speech in history. Using primary and secondary sources, you will develop research questions and research:
- the person who delivered the speech
- the time period in which the speech was given
- You will produce a written essay, a declamation presentation, and a Works Consulted
Works Consulted
- Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
- Minimum of three total sources for this project
Websites
- Academy of Achievement: Benazir Bhutto
- BBC
- American Battlefield Trust
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Presidential Center for Women and Development
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
- LBJ Presidential Library
- Library of Congress
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Archives
- National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
- National Women's History Museum
- Nelson Mandela Foundation
- New York Times
- Nobel Peace Prize
- PBS
- Peace Corps
- Pen America: Liu Xiaobo
- Sojourner Truth Memorial
- Stanford University: Nkrumah, Kwame
- Time Magazine
- United Nations
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- The White House
Judaism Project
Works Consulted
- You must use a minimum of TWO sources
- Sources may only be from online or print encyclopedias and books (no websites)
Images
- Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
- If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Encyclopedias
Books
- On loan from MS Library in the Religion room; you can also use the library catalog to find books on your topic
Images
- Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
- If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Online Encyclopedias
Websites
- Actors:
- General:
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Library of Congress (make sure to change drop-down menu to "photos, prints, drawings")
- Fabric:
- Food:
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Laurie Halse Anderson official website: Colonial Tea
- Maps:
- Brooklyn Historical Society: The Ratzer Map
- Laurie Halse Anderson official website: Timeline/map
- Library of Congress: New York maps from 1700-1799
- Make-up during the Georgian era (1714-1830):
Elements Project
Project Guidelines
- For this project, you will research an element on the periodic table
- Your assigned element will be between atomic numbers 1 to 20. For your element, you will create:
- A research summary with a works consulted page
- A creative poster to present to your classmates
Works Consulted
- Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
- Minimum of three total informational sources for this project
Online Encyclopedias (on NoodleTools: website → web page [can fill out all information needed; use citation box])
Websites (on NoodleTools: website → web page [need to hunt around on the page for information])
Solar System Project
Project Guidelines
- You will conduct weekly research and produce a Works Consulted of all your sources
- You will produce two major pieces of work and participate in a final all-class exercise
- Presentation: four-minute talk accompanied with a detailed visual in the form of a poster or slides
- Physical model: detailed hand-crafted representation of the Sun or assigned planet
- Simulated Solar System: scaled down representation of the solar system in which all project participants will assemble outdoors with their final models to recreate the orbits of the planets around the Sun
Works Consulted
- Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
- Minimum of three total sources for this project
Databases
Encyclopedias
Holocaust Project
Works Consulted
- Must have at least THREE informational sources
- One must be from a database
Images
- Get all images from the Photos for Class website
Websites
- Academy of Achievement (Elie Wisel)
- Anne Frank House Museum
- The Anti-Defamation League
- Auschwitz Memorial and Museum
- British Library: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Center for Humanity
- The Holocaust Explained
- IWitness
- Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
- The National Archives
- The Nazi Concentration Camps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Oskar Schindler
- USC Shoah Foundation
- Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
- Yale: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Hindu Gods & Goddesses Project
Works Consulted
- You must use a minimum of TWO sources
- If using a website not listed here, you MUST fill out a website evaluation form. Share it with Ms. Molina to get it approved BEFORE you begin using the website for research.
Images
- All image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- Choose Google Images → Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Books
- Available on the book cart; you can also use the library catalog to find books on your topic
Websites: