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  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
    • Directory
    • Bell Schedule
    • Calendar
    • Student Support Services | Special Education
    • School Profile
    • Contact Us
  • Admissions
    • How to Apply
    • Important Dates
    • 2022 Campus Tour Dates
    • Assessment Test
    • Academic Prerequisites
    • FAQ
  • Academics
  • Student Life
    • Athletics
    • Bell Schedule
    • The Science Academy NewsFlash
  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
    • Directory
    • Bell Schedule
    • Calendar
    • Student Support Services | Special Education
    • School Profile
    • Contact Us
  • Admissions
    • How to Apply
    • Important Dates
    • 2022 Campus Tour Dates
    • Assessment Test
    • Academic Prerequisites
    • FAQ
  • Academics
  • Student Life
    • Athletics
    • Bell Schedule
    • The Science Academy NewsFlash

Academic Prerequisites

Below you will find a bulleted list of topics that students should be familiar with before starting 6th grade.

General Skills

  • Agenda Usage – Recording daily assignments and checking for completion
  • Organization and time management – teach and review basic academic support skills
  • Experience with group collaboration for projects, homework, and problem solving
  • Summarization Strategies (extracting relevant information)
  • Identifying the “BIG” idea of a Topic being taught
  • Recognizing the relevancy of what is being learned; purposeful learning
  • Abstract Thinking

Language Arts Skills

  • Understanding the parts and functions of a textbook (i.e. using glossary, index, table of contents, etc…)
  • Knowing how to peruse/skim a chapter
  • Outlining textbook reading selections
  • Identifying context clues in a reading
  • Analysis of text complexity
  • Lecture note taking skills/Creating Note Outlines
  • Experience with research (i.e. computer research, citations, cross referencing, etc…)
  • Latin/Greek prefixes, roots, and suffixes
  • Socratic Discussion/Debate

Social Studies Skills

  • Understanding of basic geography

NOTE – every student should know “why” historical knowledge is important

Mathematics

  • All Common Core grade level mathematic standards of grades K – 5 including but not limited to place values, reciprocals, mathematical operations involving fractions, decimals and percentages and positive/negative integers, greater than/less than, roots, powers, single variable operations, basic geometry (perimeter, area, shapes) and graph interpretation
  • Word problems
  • Using mathematical tools (calculators, protractors, etc.)

Science

  • Scientific Method
  • Introduction to the metric system (SI units)
  • Basic introduction to Periodic Table of Elements
  • Atomic structure
  • Basic introduction to the 11 Body Systems
  • Basic introduction to Technology
  • Introduction to the basic topics in the sciences of: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy and Geology

Participation

The students of the Science Academy STEM School must participate regularly (almost daily) in verbal and/or written exercises where they must analyze, synthesize, hypothesize, integrate and differentiate learned information in group/partnership discussion.

The Science Academy STEM Magnet

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5525 Vineland Ave.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
School Hours:
8:00am – 4:30pm
Telephone:
818-753-4470
Email:
scienceacademycontact@gmail.com

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