Year 6 Science
In the Australian Year 6 Science curriculum, students explore physical and chemical science, grasp Earth's dynamic nature, and see the vital links between Earth's systems changes and living organisms' well-being. This curriculum encourages critical thinking and an understanding of the interconnectedness of the natural world.
What you'll get from this course
11
Chapters
108
Study materials
159
Practice testsWhat you'll learn
- 1
Living things and their environment
- 2
The growth and survival of living things
- 3
Changes in matter
- 4
Natural hazards
- 5
Space science
- 6
Resources
- 7
Energy
- 8
Electricity and circuits
- 9
Motion, forces, and interaction
Skills you'll learn
Description and prediction - Effect of environmental changes on living things
Analytical thinking - Conditions necessary for the growth of plant, observing growth of fungi
Real-life applications - Understanding various types of changes, observing the effect of heating and cooling on various states of matter
Analysing and critical thinking - Causes of natural hazards, effects of natural hazards
Observation and critical thinking - Identifying planets of the solar system, arrangement of planets in the solar system, characteristics of each planet
Application and decision making - Types of resources, management of sustainable resources
Real-life applications - Identifying sources of energy, types of energy, and uses of energy
Critical analysis - Electricity, circuits, switches, conductors, measuring electricity
Critical analysis and problem solving - Acceleration, momentum, types of motion, speed, and velocity, types of forces, Newton's laws of motion
