Conservation, Efficiency, and Technology

Conservation, Efficiency, and Technology Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.11B)

Wrap up TEKS 6.11B with a problem and solution table covering water, forests, fish, soil, air, and metals. Students review conservation, efficiency, and technology, then apply the resource, activity, impact, solution chain on their own to a new case, mining copper.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box: "What can people do to manage Earth’s resources?"
• A problem and solution table with doodles
• Activity 1: Students complete the four-question chain for copper, with two extra words in the bank
• Activity 2: Three circle-the-word sentences
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it to wrap up TEKS 6.11B or as a review before a test. The sheet takes about 10 to 15 minutes and prints clearly in black and white.

This worksheet is part of the Reading in Science series for grade 6. It supports TEKS 6.11B: explain how conservation, increased efficiency, and technology can help manage air, water, soil, and energy resources. It is one of eight connected TEKS 6.11B sheets that build on the 6.11A resource sheets. Every case study uses the same four questions: resource, human activity, impact, and solution. The unit big idea is that human activities can change how quickly resources are used, replaced, or depleted, and conservation, efficiency, and technology can help manage them.

Why It Works

Each sheet opens with a Big Question, teaches the key terms in plain words with simple black-and-white doodles, and then asks students to use only what the page taught. The same four-question chain repeats across the unit, so students build one way of thinking about any resource problem, and the visual answer key lets teachers check work fast.