GRADE 6 SCIENCE SYLLABUS ACADEMIC YEAR 2021 – 2022

TERM 1

Month – Wise Content Coverage References

Books: Complete Cambridge Secondary 1 Course book (Biology,
Physics, Chemistry) along with the workbook, Cambridge
Checkpoint Science challenge 7, Primary Checkpoint Book

MYP UNIT– HUMANS AND SYSTEMS(BIOLOGY)

JULY Teacher will provide the

Introduction to MYP Science Criteria/Command Terms handout

Plants
Biology pages 8-13
• Leaves, stems and roots
• Enquiry
• Review

JULY
Living things in their environment

• Habitats
• Parts of a food chain
Food chains to show feeding relationships Biology Pages 52-67
• How plants and animals inhabit an environment
• Changing planet
• Preventing extinction
• Obtaining energy
• Extension: growing fuels
• Review
• Similarities and differences between local environments, and
they affect plants and animals that live there (Checkpoint)
• How humans care for the environment (recycling, reducing
waste) (Checkpoint)
• Positive and negative effects of humans on the environment
(Checkpoint)
• Relationship between animals and habitats (Checkpoint)

AUGUST
Cells and organisms

• The Characteristics of living organisms

• Microbes Biology Pages 28-51
• Louis Pasteur
 • Enquiry
• Useful microorganisms
• Enquiry
• Harmful microorganisms
• Plant and animal cells
• Tissues and organs
• Review

AUGUST
Material properties

• Safety rules of the laboratory

• Basic laboratory equipment Worksheet will be given
by the teacher
• Drawing up a basic laboratory report
• Introducing elements
• Metal and non-metal element
• Enquiry
• Extension
• Review

SEPTEMBER
MATTER AND MATERIALS(CHEMISTRY)
• The Particle Theory of Matter
• Boiling, Evaporation, Condensation, Melting, Freezing, Chemistry Pages 8-24
Subliming
• Using Particle Theory to explain dissolving
• Solutions and suspensions
• Mixtures
• Enquiry
• Review (Checkpoint questions)

Material properties Chemistry Pages 26-40

• Introducing elements
• Metal elements
• Non-metal elements
• Enquiry
• Extension: Metal alloys
• Material properties
• Extension
• Review
Material changes
• Acid and Alkali
• The pH scale and Indicator
• Neutralization Enquiry Chemistry Pages 42-50
• Reversible and irreversible changes
• Separation techniques
• Review

OCTOBER(PHYSICS)

Forces
• Introduction to forces
• Balanced forces
• Units of forces, mass, weight Physics Pages 8-28
• Forces (Balanced, unbalanced, friction, gravity, Enquiry, Air
resistance, Tension and upthrust
• Extension
• Review

Energy
Physics Pages 30-50
• Energy from the sun
• Energy types
• Energy transfer
• Conservation of energy
• Potential and kinetic energy
• Enquiry extension

REVISION Physics page110

Light

• What is light
• How do we see things?
• Extension
• Reflection
Magnetism Page 136

• The properties of Magnet

• Magnetic fields
• Electromagnets
• Enquiry and Extension