🌱 Science · Grade 6

Science 6

Measurement and motion, living things and cells, food, magnets, materials, heat and the states of water, separating substances, natural resources, and the solar system.

Units

1. Unit 1 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Measurement and motion

   Measure lengths and times with SI units, say how sure you are, and describe motion that goes straight, round or to and fro.

2. Unit 2 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Diversity of living things

   Sort plants and animals by their features and habitats, and see why the sorting shows who is related to whom.

3. Unit 3 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Cells

   Use a microscope to meet the tiny building blocks of every living thing, and compare plant cells with animal cells.

4. Unit 4 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   What living things do

   Test whether something is alive by asking whether it grows, respires, reproduces, responds and gets nutrition.

5. Unit 5 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Food components

   Test foods for starch, protein and fat, and see why a plate with only one kind of food leaves the body short.

6. Unit 6 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Magnetic fields

   See the invisible region around a magnet by mapping it with a compass, then make a magnet of your own.

7. Unit 7 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Materials and their properties

   Test materials for hardness, solubility, transparency and conductivity, then choose the right one for each job.

8. Unit 8 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Temperature and its measurement

   Read a thermometer properly, and find out why a hot cup of tea and a warm bucket of water are very different things.

9. Unit 9 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

   Water's changes of state

   Find out why wet clothes dry, why a cold glass "sweats" and why melting ice stays at 0 °C, and test what makes water evaporate faster.

10. Unit 10 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

    Separating substances

    Learn five ways to pull a mixture apart (filtering, settling, decanting, evaporating and chromatography) and how to pick the right one.

11. Unit 11 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

    Nature's treasures

    Sort resources into renewable and non-renewable, and find out why even renewable ones run out when we use them faster than they come back.

12. Unit 12 · reading, lab, quick check, quick check, task

    Beyond Earth

    Tour the Sun, planets and stars, learn what a light-year really measures, and build a scale model that shows how empty space is.