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Year 6 Science Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Changing circuits
- Changing the volume of buzzers Study Guide
- Choosing and using conductors and insulators (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Circuit symbols and diagrams Study Guide
- Components and simple circuits Study Guide
- Debating the use of electric cars (non-stat Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Electrical careers Study Guide
- Electrical discoveries and inventions (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Electrical sensors: design (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Electrical sensors: make and review (non-statutory) Study Guide
- How electrical insulators keep us safe (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Investigating voltage: do and review Study Guide
- Investigating voltage: plan Study Guide
- Sustainable sources of electricity (non-stat Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- The position of switches: open and closed Study Guide
- Variables in electric circuits: do and review Study Guide
- Variables in electric circuits: plan Study Guide
Climate change and sustainability (non-statutory)
- Carbon capture (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Fossil fuels (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Reducing air pollution (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Reducing our carbon footprint (non-statutory) Study Guide
- The Sun as an energy source (non-statutory) Study Guide
- The wind as an energy source (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Water as an energy source (non-statutory) Study Guide
- What carbon is (non-statutory) Study Guide
Evolution and inheritance
- Animal adaptations Study Guide
- Charles Darwin and finches Study Guide
- Evolution: evidence Study Guide
- Evolution: presentation Study Guide
- Family trees (non-statutory) Study Guide
- How living things have changed over time Study Guide
- Human skulls: using evidence from the past (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Inherited characteristics Study Guide
- More about plant adaptations Study Guide
- Offspring: similar but not identical Study Guide
- Plant adaptations Study Guide
- The survival of the fittest Study Guide
- What fossils can tell us about the past Study Guide
- Where fossils are found (non-statutory) Study Guide
Keeping healthy
- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: do and review (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Healthy and sustainable proteins (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Healthy heart rate Study Guide
- Healthy hearts Study Guide
- Heart recovery time after exercise Study Guide
- Legal and illegal drugs Study Guide
- Monitoring and improving lifestyle choices (Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Mushrooms and mycoprotein (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- The impact of a balanced diet Study Guide
- The impact of alcohol Study Guide
- The impact of smoking Study Guide
Light and how it travels
- Changing the direction of light Study Guide
- How light travels Study Guide
- How shadows form Study Guide
- Light enters our eyes Study Guide
- Light sources and light reflectors (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Measuring reflected light: do and review Study Guide
- Measuring reflected light: plan Study Guide
- Multiple shadows Study Guide
- Reflected light Study Guide
- Shadow shapes investigation Study Guide
- The position of shadows (non-statutory) Study Guide
Materials (non-statutory)
The human circulatory system
- Circulatory system: do and review Study Guide
- Function of blood Study Guide
- Function of blood vessels Study Guide
- Function of the heart Study Guide
- How nutrients and water are transported within humans Study Guide
- The circulatory system in humans: plan Study Guide
- The use of animal hearts in humans (non-statutory) Study Guide
Why we group and classify living things
- Carl Linnaeus and classification Study Guide
- Comparing characteristics of living things Study Guide
- Discovering and naming new species Study Guide
- Grouping micro-organisms Study Guide
- Growing yeast: do and review (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Growing yeast: plan (non-statutory) Study Guide
- How and why we group animals Study Guide
- How and why we group plants Study Guide
- Micro-organisms are living things Study Guide
- Micro-organisms living on food: plan and do (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Micro-organisms living on food: review (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Microorganisms that help us (non-statutory) Study Guide
- The 5 Rs (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide