England Year 6 science curriculum
The Year 6 science outcomes we teach, in the curriculum's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
National curriculum in England: science programmes of study, Key Stages 1–3. Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Electricity
Outcome Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches. Taught in lesson 3, string lights.
Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up
Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook
Evolution and inheritance
Outcome Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. Taught in lesson 3, adaptation only.
Lessons: Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm
Practice: Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science
Light
Outcome Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them. Taught in lesson 1, at a K–2 level.
Lessons: Light and Shadows (Why does my shadow follow me?, Why is my shadow long in the morning?, What can light go through?)
Practice: Light and Shadows workbook · Earth and Sky at Home workbook · Bouncing Light: Mirrors, Water and Colour workbook · Grade 4 Light and Colour
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