Grade 6 is the bridge year — ratios, bigger ideas in science, and the expectations that set up intermediate school. Here is the year as Alberta schools teach it under the new curriculum — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
Alberta math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Investigating magnitude with positive and negative numbers — integers on the number line, comparing and ordering in real contexts like temperature.
Analyzing numbers using prime factorization and exponentiation; solving problems using standard algorithms for addition and subtraction.
Applying standard algorithms to multiplication and division of decimal and natural numbers, with estimation and multi-step problems.
Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.
Relating fractions to quotients; adding and subtracting fractions with denominators within 100; multiplying natural numbers by fractions; applying equivalence to ratios and rates.
Worth watching: ratios are the first math where reading the problem matters more than the arithmetic — slow, careful setups now pay off for years.
Analyzing expressions and solving one-variable algebraic equations; investigating functions and patterns of change.
Explaining location and movement in the Cartesian plane; analyzing shapes through symmetry and congruence.
Analyzing areas of parallelograms and triangles; interpreting and expressing volume; investigating relative frequency using experimental data.
In a class of 24 students, the ratio of girls to boys is 1:2. How many girls are in the class?
Investigating how particles of matter behave when heated or cooled and analyzing effects on solids, liquids and gases, including changes of state.
Analyzing forces — gravity, friction, applied forces — and relating them to interactions between objects.
Investigating energy resources and explaining the factors that influence their use — availability, cost, environmental impact.
Investigating climate, changes in climate, and the impact of climate change on Earth's systems and communities.
Investigating the characteristics and components of ecosystems and the interactions within them — food webs, producers, consumers and decomposers.
Analyzing and representing celestial bodies of the solar system; examining abstraction in design and coding; the role of explanation in science.
The Sun looks much bigger than every other star. Why?
Relating the foundational principles of democracy — participation, equality, rule of law — to government systems throughout time and place, including ancient Athens.
Analyzing democracy in Canada — how representatives are elected, how laws are made, and the roles of the three levels of government.
Examining the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the rights and freedoms it protects and why they matter.
Examining civic participation in Canada — voting, volunteering, advocacy and how citizens influence decisions.
Comparing democratic systems across time and place and reflecting on how democratic principles show up in school and community life.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (the new Alberta curriculum (program of studies) and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.