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Year 6 science

Year 6 science runs to 84 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 10 to 11 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes organ, function, chambers, valves, model, blood, nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide, blood vessels, arteries, veins.

These lessons are written by Oak National Academy, the government-funded curriculum body, and are free to anyone. StudyDen sequences them, marks the answers and keeps the record.

Every Year 6 science lesson

In the order they are taught. 84 lessons.

The human circulatory system

  1. Function of the Heart
  2. Function of Blood
  3. Function of Blood Vessels
  4. How Nutrients and Water Are Transported Within Humans
  5. The Circulatory System in Humans: Plan
  6. Circulatory System: Do and Review
  7. The Use of Animal Hearts in Humans

Changing circuits

  1. Components and Simple Circuits
  2. Circuit Symbols and Diagrams
  3. Electrical Discoveries and Inventions
  4. Investigating Voltage: Plan
  5. Investigating Voltage: How Does It Affect Bulb Brightness?
  6. Variables in Electric Circuits: Plan
  7. Variables in Electric Circuits: Do and Review
  8. Changing the Volume of Buzzers
  9. The Position of Switches: Open and Closed
  10. Choosing and Using Conductors and Insulators
  11. How Electrical Insulators Keep Us Safe
  12. Electrical Careers
  13. Electrical Sensors: Design
  14. Electrical Sensors: Make and Review
  15. Debating the Use of Electric Cars
  16. Sustainable Sources of Electricity

Keeping healthy

  1. The Impact of a Balanced Diet
  2. Healthy and Sustainable Proteins
  3. Mushrooms and Mycoprotein: Sustainable Protein Sources
  4. Healthy Heart Rate
  5. Heart Recovery Time After Exercise
  6. Healthy Hearts
  7. Legal and Illegal Drugs
  8. The Impact of Smoking
  9. The Impact of Alcohol
  10. Monitoring and Improving Lifestyle Choices
  11. Evidence About Healthy Lifestyle: Evaluating Sources
  12. Evidence About Healthy Lifestyles: Communicating Your Findings

Why we group and classify living things

  1. Comparing Characteristics of Living Things
  2. How and Why We Group Animals
  3. How and Why We Group Plants
  4. Micro-organisms are living things
  5. Grouping Micro-organisms
  6. Micro-organisms Living on Food: Plan and Do
  7. The 5 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Refuse, Recycle and Rot
  8. Microorganisms That Help Us: The Discovery of Penicillin
  9. Growing Yeast: Plan Your Investigation
  10. Growing Yeast: Do and Review
  11. Micro-organisms Living on Food: Review
  12. Carl Linnaeus and Classification
  13. Discovering and Naming New Species

Evolution and inheritance

  1. Where Fossils Are Found
  2. What Fossils Can Tell Us About the Past
  3. How Living Things Have Changed Over Time
  4. Human Skulls: Using Evidence from the Past
  5. Offspring: Similar But Not Identical
  6. Family Trees: Spotting Similarities and Differences
  7. Inherited Characteristics
  8. Animal Adaptations
  9. Charles Darwin and the Finches of the Galápagos
  10. Plant Adaptations
  11. More About Plant Adaptations
  12. The Survival of the Fittest
  13. Evolution: Evidence
  14. Evolution: Presenting Your Science to the World

Light and how it travels

  1. How Light Travels
  2. Light Sources and Light Reflectors
  3. Light Enters Our Eyes
  4. Reflected Light: How We See the World
  5. Changing the Direction of Light
  6. Measuring Reflected Light: Planning the Investigation
  7. Measuring Reflected Light: Do and Review
  8. How Shadows Form
  9. Shadow Shapes Investigation
  10. The Position of Shadows
  11. Multiple Shadows

Materials (non-statutory)

  1. Comparing Rock Salt and Table Salt
  2. The Effect of Adding Salt to Ice: Plan
  3. The Effect of Adding Salt to Ice: Do and Review

Climate change and sustainability (non-statutory)

  1. Fossil Fuels: Ancient Energy Beneath Our Feet
  2. Reducing Air Pollution
  3. What Is Carbon?
  4. Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
  5. Carbon Capture: Trapping CO₂ Underground
  6. The Sun as an Energy Source
  7. The Wind as an Energy Source
  8. Water as an Energy Source

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Common questions

What does Year 6 science cover?
Year 6 science runs to 84 lessons across a 36 week year, covering organ, function, chambers, valves, model, blood and more.
How many science lessons are in Year 6?
84 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 6?
Children in Year 6 are 10 to 11 years old during the school year in England and Wales.