Manitoba · 2026/27 school year

Manitoba teachers: renewed science, report cards and planning in one place.

Manitoba's renewed Kindergarten to Grade 10 Science curriculum is in full implementation in the 2026/27 school year. Everything we make for Manitoba classrooms is gathered here: science units and plans, free classroom labs, and report card help built on the provincial report card.

Free Manitoba Science Crosswalk, Grades 4-8

Old clusters → new strands, Grades 4-8. Free, no sign-up.

GRADE 6 SCIENCE · PLAN YOUR NEXT INVESTIGATION

Start with a question. Find the lesson behind it.

Explore the teaching sequence across three units. Find a topic or curriculum code, inspect the lesson, then try a companion investigation.

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Try the free year plan and Lesson 6: What Causes the Seasons? Testing an Idea. Allow about 70 minutes, or split it over two shorter periods.

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Forces & Energy

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  1. Gravity: Pulled Toward the Centre

    60 minutes

    Earth's gravity, weight and newtons

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.1

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.B.1

  2. Forces That Hold Things Up

    60 minutes

    Normal force, tension and balanced forces

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.2

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.E.1 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.2

  3. Air Pushes Back: Air Resistance and Lift

    60 minutes

    Air resistance, drag and lift; a fair test with parachutes

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.2

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.E.1 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.D.3 · SCI.6.D.4 · SCI.6.C.2

  4. Buoyancy: Why Things Float

    60 minutes

    Buoyant force, Archimedes' principle, volume and density

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.3 · SCI.6.E.2

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.D.4

  5. Boats That Carry More: A Design Challenge

    60 minutes, plus a second period to improve and retest designs

    Buoyancy by design; canoes, York boats and Red River carts

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.3 · SCI.6.A.1 · SCI.6.D.5 · SCI.6.D.6

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.B.1

  6. Stored Energy

    60 minutes

    Gravitational, elastic and chemical energy stores

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.4

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.3 · SCI.6.D.4 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.3

  7. Energy Transfer Makes Things Happen

    60 minutes, plus a second period to build and test the machine

    Energy transfers cause events; a chain-reaction machine

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.5

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.E.4 · SCI.6.D.5 · SCI.6.D.6 · SCI.6.D.7 · SCI.6.C.3

  8. Battery Circuits: Complete the Loop

    60 minutes

    Complete circuits, switches, conductors and insulators

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.6

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.E.7 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.D.2

  9. Where Does the Energy Go?

    60 minutes

    Energy transfers in circuits: light, heat, sound and motion

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.6 · SCI.6.E.5

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.7 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.4

  10. Electrical Safety and Taking Action

    60 minutes, plus time for the action project

    Electrical safety at home and outdoors; a classroom energy audit

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.7 · SCI.6.C.1

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.5 · SCI.6.B.1 · SCI.6.D.7 · SCI.6.C.3

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Companions support selected ideas; they do not replace the complete teaching sequence.

Earth, Moon & Sun

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  1. Day and Night: Earth Spins

    60 minutes

    Rotation, day and night

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.8

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.B.1

  2. Shadows and the Sun's Path

    60 minutes, plus short outdoor checks during the day

    Shadows, solar noon, the Sun's path

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.8 · SCI.6.C.3

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.2

  3. A Day and a Year: Rotation and Revolution

    60 minutes, plus a second period for the design challenge

    Day, year, leap day, solstices, equinoxes; a shadow-clock design

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.8 · SCI.6.E.9

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.5 · SCI.6.D.6 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.3

  4. The Changing Moon

    60 minutes, plus a two-week Moon journal

    Moonlight, the eight phases, the month

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.11 · SCI.6.E.9

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.2

  5. Thirteen Moons: Ininew Knowledge of Time

    60 minutes (plus a Knowledge Keeper visit, if one can be arranged)

    Indigenous knowledge of the Moon and the seasons

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.A.1 · SCI.6.E.9

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.B.1 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.C.5

  6. What Causes the Seasons? Testing an Idea

    About 70 minutes, or two shorter periods

    Hypothesis testing: is it Earth's distance from the Sun?

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.10 · SCI.6.D.3 · SCI.6.D.4

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.E.9

  7. Tilt, Sunlight and Daylight

    Two periods of 60 minutes

    How tilt and revolution change daylight and the seasons

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.10 · SCI.6.E.9

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.D.4

  8. The Sun, Our Star

    60 minutes, plus time for the action project

    The Sun as a star; energy, light and gravity; taking action

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.11

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.1 · SCI.6.C.5 · SCI.6.B.1 · SCI.6.C.4

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Companions support selected ideas; they do not replace the complete teaching sequence.

Heredity, Diversity & Fossils

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  1. Like Parent, Like Offspring

    60 minutes

    Inherited traits in plants and animals

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.12

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.B.1

  2. Genes and Environment

    60 minutes, plus 5 minutes on days 2, 4, 7 and 10 to measure seedlings

    Traits shaped by genes and surroundings

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.13

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.3 · SCI.6.D.4 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.3

  3. Inherited and Learned Behaviours

    60 minutes

    Bird songs, migrations, webs and nests

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.13

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.B.1

  4. So Many Living Things: Classification

    60 minutes

    Taxonomy, ranks and scientific names

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.14

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.C.3

  5. Keys to Manitoba's Emblems

    60 minutes

    Physical traits and dichotomous keys

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.14

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.6

  6. Two-Eyed Seeing: Knowing the Land

    60 minutes, plus a few minutes a week for the seasonal journal (and a Knowledge Keeper visit, if one can be arranged)

    Indigenous and Western knowledge of living things

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.A.1 · SCI.6.E.13

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.B.1 · SCI.6.C.3 · SCI.6.E.14

  7. What Is a Species? Hybrids

    60 minutes

    Species, fertile offspring and hybrids

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.16

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.D.4 · SCI.6.D.1 · SCI.6.C.5

  8. Similar, Not Identical: Reproduction

    60 minutes

    Sexual reproduction and variation

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.17 · SCI.6.E.12

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.D.4

  9. Fossils: Evidence in Stone

    60 minutes (the cast needs to harden overnight)

    How fossils form, and what they record

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.15

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.4 · SCI.6.D.2 · SCI.6.D.1

  10. Bruce and the Ancient Sea

    60 minutes, plus the action project

    Fossils as evidence of change over time

    Focus outcomes: SCI.6.E.15

    Supporting outcomes: SCI.6.C.1 · SCI.6.C.2 · SCI.6.C.5 · SCI.6.B.1 · SCI.6.D.4

Explore a companion

Companions support selected ideas; they do not replace the complete teaching sequence.

Focus outcomes guide each lesson; supporting outcomes show connections. Lesson titles and sequences are Milestone Teachers’ own. Read Manitoba’s official Grade 6 Science curriculum (PDF).

Renewed science, Grades 4 to 8

Resources written for the renewed Manitoba Science documents, by grade. Each product page shows the current price, the files you get and sample pages.

Free Grades 4-8 science checklist and year at a glance: Eight pages: one outcome checklist per grade, a suggested sequence, and a blank planner. The one-line summaries are ours, not Manitoba's official wording.

School licence for Grades 4 to 8: One school, unlimited teachers in the grades you license. Prices are in Canadian dollars.

Grade 4

Two science units. The download files are not in the store yet, so they cannot be purchased here.

  • Files not in the store yet. Light and Sound: SCI.4.E.1 to E.5. Ten lessons. The files are not in the store yet.
  • Files not in the store yet. Energy in Action and Energy Sources: A Grade 4 science unit on energy in action and energy sources. The files are not in the store yet.

Grade 5

Four units that cover all 17 Scientific Knowledge outcomes (SCI.5.E.1 to E.17), a full-year bundle, a year plan and a free sample lesson.

  • Grade 5 Science Full Year Bundle: The four units below in one bundle: 40 lessons across Forces & Simple Machines; Matter & Its Changes; Weather & Climate; and Cells & Body Systems.
  • Forces & Simple Machines: SCI.5.E.5 to E.8. 10 lessons: pushes, pulls and twists, friction, levers, ramps and pulleys, and a machine design challenge.
  • Matter & Its Changes: SCI.5.E.1 to E.4. 10 lessons: mass and volume, states of matter, mixtures, physical and chemical change, and conservation of mass.
  • Weather & Climate: SCI.5.E.9 to E.12. 10 lessons: air pressure, wind, clouds, the water cycle, forecasting and climate change.
  • Cells & Body Systems: SCI.5.E.13 to E.17. 10 lessons: cells and microscopes, tissues and organs, digestion, circulation and removing wastes.
  • Manitoba Grade 5 Science Long Range Plan: A 20-page print-and-write plan: a suggested September-to-June sequence for all 31 coded learning outcomes, with 36 checklist rows for the compulsory content. A plan, not a lesson unit.
  • Free Year Plan + Air Pressure Lesson (free): A year at a glance for the four Grade 5 units and one complete lesson from the Weather & Climate unit, with slides and both reading levels.

Grade 6

Three units that cover all 17 Scientific Knowledge outcomes (SCI.6.E.1 to E.17), a free guide and four free classroom labs.

  • Grade 6 Science Full Year Bundle: The three units below in one bundle: 28 lessons across Earth, Moon & Sun; Forces & Energy; and Heredity, Diversity & Fossils, each with its own offline browser folder.
  • Earth, Moon & Sun: SCI.6.E.8 to E.11. 8 lessons: day and night, Moon phases, the Sun as a star and the cause of the seasons.
  • Forces & Energy: SCI.6.E.1 to E.7. 10 lessons: gravity, buoyancy and density, energy transfer, battery circuits and electrical safety.
  • Heredity, Diversity & Fossils: SCI.6.E.12 to E.17. 10 lessons: traits, classification and dichotomous keys, fossils and species.
  • Files not in the store yet. An Emerging Nation, 1914 to 1945: Social studies Cluster 2. Ten lessons. The files are not in the store yet.
  • Files not in the store yet. Canada Today: Democracy: Social studies Cluster 4. Ten lessons. The files are not in the store yet.
  • Free Year Plan + Seasons Lesson (free): A year-at-a-glance plan for all 17 Scientific Knowledge outcomes and one complete lesson from the Earth, Moon & Sun unit.

Free for Grade 6

Grade 7

Three units that cover all 23 Scientific Knowledge outcomes (SCI.7.E.1 to E.23), a full-year bundle and a free sample lesson.

  • Grade 7 Science Full Year Bundle: The three units below in one bundle: 30 lessons across Particles & Heat; Gravity & Space; and Ecosystems.
  • Particles & Heat: SCI.7.E.1 to E.3 and E.8 to E.11. 10 lessons: the particle theory, changes of state, heat transfer, insulators and energy efficiency.
  • Gravity & Space: SCI.7.E.4 to E.7 and E.12 to E.16. 10 lessons: gravity, orbits, Hudson Bay tides, Moon phases and eclipses, and Canada in space.
  • Ecosystems: SCI.7.E.17 to E.23. 10 lessons: food webs in Lake Winnipeg, the energy pyramid, decomposers, nutrient cycles and habitat change.
  • Free Year Plan + Tides Lesson (free): A year at a glance for the three Grade 7 units and one complete lesson from the Gravity & Space unit: Tides on Hudson Bay, with slides and both reading levels.

Grade 8

Two units that cover 13 of the 23 Scientific Knowledge outcomes: SCI.8.E.1 to E.9, E.13 and E.15 to E.17.

Purchases for these two Grade 8 units are paused while we correct their download files. You can still inspect the details and sample pages.

  • Purchase paused. Density, Fluids & Water: SCI.8.E.1 to E.6. 10 lessons: density, floating and sinking, viscosity, gas pressure, changes of state, the properties of water and a spill response plan.
  • Purchase paused. Energy from the Sun: SCI.8.E.7 to E.9, E.13 and E.15 to E.17. 10 lessons: radiation, the spectrum, UV safety, albedo, photosynthesis, Earth's energy budget and the greenhouse effect.
  • Files not in the store yet. Cells and Body Systems: SCI.8.E.18 to E.23. Ten lessons, from cell theory to the circulatory system. The files are not in the store yet.

Further Grade 8 units are coming for the remaining outcomes (SCI.8.E.10 to E.12 and E.14). Cells and Body Systems is listed above, and its files are not in the store yet. No release dates yet.

Report cards

Free Manitoba Report Card Studio

Built on the Manitoba Provincial Report Card, Grades 1 to 8. Rate each subject category and learning skill yourself, then write each subject's comment from a checked bank. Free, no login, and names stay on your computer.

Open the free studio

Browse sample comments by grade and subject

Free report-card week planner (Ontario and Manitoba): Seven pages: a timeline and an evidence checklist for Grades 1-8. No ready-made comments.

  • Manitoba Report Season Kit, Grades 1 to 8: An 18-page Evidence Organizer by report card category, a 14-page Learning Skills Tracker for C, U, S and R, 588 subject comments and 110 Learning Skills comments in PDF, Word and Excel. No Kindergarten.

What changed in 2026/27

The renewed K to 10 Science curriculum has been finalized and posted for full implementation in the 2026/27 school year.

Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning, Framework for Learning

  • From voluntary to full implementation. The renewed documents were posted for voluntary use in 2025-26. In 2026/27 they are the science program.
  • Strands instead of clusters. The old grade clusters are gone. Five strands, A to E, run through the whole year; Strand E, Scientific Knowledge, holds the content.
  • Outcomes grouped by big ideas. Scientific Knowledge outcomes are grouped by big ideas of science, not into units, and teachers may reorder them. In Grade 6 there are 17.

Read the full Grade 6 guide · Grade 6 Science curriculum document (PDF)

Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB). OpenMB licence.

Independent teacher-created resources. Milestone Teachers is not Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning and does not speak for the Government of Manitoba. Check the official documents before you plan assessments.

Map outline: Natural Earth (public domain).