SCIENCE TOPICS
GRADE 6
September 2013- June 2014
SEMESTER ONE
What is Science? (Physical, Earth, Life Sciences)
Laboratory tools used in Science (Give names and explain use in laboratory)
Science Laboratory Safety
Science Experiments and their write up
Living things and their characteristics
a) getting food or eating
b) releasing energy or respiring
c) growing
d) reproducing
e) excreting
f) moving
g) irritability or reacting and adapting to environment
Living things and their composition: Animal and plant cell parts
Mitosis/cell division
Circulatory System (Its parts and how it works.)
Immune System (Its parts and how it works.)
Unit Review
The Five kingdoms of Living Things
- Animal
- Plant
- Protists
- Fungi
- Monerans
Viruses
Unit Review
Layers of the Earth
Weather & its Instruments e.g. thermometer, rain gauge, wind vane, barometer, anemometer, hygrometer
Matter: The parts of an atom (List and describe its parts)
States of matter
Properties of Matter
Elements and the Periodic Table of Elements
Unit Review
Natural resources
Pollution (Air, land and water)
Unit Review
SEMESTER TWO
Invertebrates (WEMACS) and Vertebrates (FMBRA)
Sponges
Echinoderms
Unit Review
Nervous System
Endocrine System
Skeletal System
Muscular System
Respiratory System
Digestive System
Unit Review
Chemical compounds
Physical changes
Chemical changes
Acids and Bases
Mixtures, solutions, suspensions and colloids
Unit Review
Kinetic & Potential energy
Waves & Electromagnetic Waves
Light: Reflection, Refraction, Transparent, Opaque and Translucent
Sound: Echo & Pitch
Motion (How and Why Objects move)
Friction
Gravity
Magnetic force
Unit Review
Heat and Electricity
Conductors and Insulators
Circuits
Magnetism
Electromagnet
Unit Review
Weather: Air masses and fronts
Storms: thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes
Weather symbols
Unit Review
Weathering
Erosion
Energy resources
*Fossil fuels - Coal, Oil, Natural gas
*Energy from atoms – Fissions, Fusions
*Solar Energy
*Hydroelectric Energy
*Tidal Energy
*Geothermal Energy
*Biomass
Unit Review
Conservation
The Impact of technology