Science · Year 6
32 interactive lessons to explore
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Electricity & Simple Circuits
Build an understanding of electric circuits, conductors, insulators and how energy changes form.
⏱ 22 min · 12 questions
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Body Systems Working Together
Discover how body systems like the circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems keep us alive.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Reversible and Irreversible Changes
Investigate physical and chemical changes and decide which ones can be reversed.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Natural Disasters and Earth's Surface
Explore how events like earthquakes, volcanoes and floods change the Earth's surface.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Energy and How It Changes Form
Explore different forms of energy and how energy can change from one form to another.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Planning a Fair Test
Learn how scientists plan fair tests, control variables and measure results accurately.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Circuit Components and Switches
Explore the parts of a circuit and how series and parallel arrangements affect what happens.
⏱ 21 min · 9 questions
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The Digestive System
Follow the journey of food through the body and learn how the digestive system works.
⏱ 21 min · 8 questions
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How Environments Change
Investigate how natural events and human actions can change environments over time.
⏱ 20 min · 8 questions
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The Heart & Circulation
Discover how your heart pumps blood around your body without stopping.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Conductors & Insulators
Find out which materials let electricity flow and which block it.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Predict, Observe, Explain
Learn how scientists make predictions, take careful observations and explain results.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Energy Transformations
Discover how energy changes from one form to another but is never lost.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Classifying with Keys
Learn how scientists group living things and use a dichotomous key to identify them.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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How We See: Light and the Eye
Explore how light reflects off objects and enters our eyes so we can see.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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The Carbon Cycle and Climate
Explore how carbon moves through living things, air and oceans, and why it matters.
⏱ 18 min · 6 questions
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The Respiratory System
Trace the path of air through your lungs and learn how your body takes in oxygen.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Renewable Energy
Compare renewable energy like solar and wind with non-renewable fossil fuels.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Inherited Traits
Discover how living things inherit features from their parents, and which features are learned instead.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Sound Energy & Vibrations
Explore how sound is made by vibrations, travels as waves, and changes in pitch and volume.
⏱ 17 min · 7 questions
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Cells: Life's Building Blocks
Discover that all living things are made of cells and that some living things are a single cell.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Signs of a Chemical Reaction
Learn the clues that a new substance has formed in a chemical change, like gas, heat or colour change.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Why We Have Seasons
Discover how the tilt of the Earth, not its distance from the Sun, causes the seasons.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Light, Shadows & Eclipses
Explore how light travels in straight lines and how this explains shadows and eclipses.
⏱ 18 min · 7 questions
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Photosynthesis
Food from light! Discover how plants make their own food using sunlight.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Acids, Bases & Indicators
Colour change! Use indicators to test whether liquids are acids or bases.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Earth's Tectonic Plates
Moving ground! Learn how Earth's giant plates cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Electromagnets
Magnet from electricity! Discover how an electric current can make a magnet.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Energy moves from the Sun through producers and consumers. Trace it through food webs.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Neutralising Acids
Mixing an acid with a base can cancel them out. Explore neutralisation reactions.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Forces & Motion
Bigger forces cause bigger changes in motion. Explore how forces change movement.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions
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Groundwater
Water soaks underground and is stored in rock. Explore where hidden water goes.
⏱ 16 min · 6 questions