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Year 6 Checkpoint Syllabus

The document outlines the Stage 6 Science curriculum, focusing on key areas such as scientific enquiry, biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science. It details specific learning objectives related to models, planning investigations, analyzing results, and understanding life processes and ecosystems. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of scientific knowledge in context and its application in local environments.

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Year 6 Checkpoint Syllabus

The document outlines the Stage 6 Science curriculum, focusing on key areas such as scientific enquiry, biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science. It details specific learning objectives related to models, planning investigations, analyzing results, and understanding life processes and ecosystems. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of scientific knowledge in context and its application in local environments.

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Science

Stage 6
Thinking and Working Scientifically
Models and representations

6TWSm.01 Describe how a model can help us understand and describe scientific phenomena and ideas.

6TWSm.02 Use models, including diagrams, to represent and describe scientific phenomena and ideas.

Scientific enquiry: purpose and planning


6TWSp.01 Ask scientific questions and select appropriate scientific enquiries to use.
6TWSp.02 Know the features of the five main types of scientific enquiry.
6TWSp.03 Make predictions, referring to relevant scientific knowledge and understanding within familiar
and unfamiliar contexts.

6TWSp.04 Plan fair test investigations, identifying the independent, dependent and control variables.

6TWSp.05 Describe risks when planning practical work and consider how to minimise them.

Carrying out scientific enquiry


6TWSc.01 Sort, group and classify objects, materials and living things through testing, observation and
using secondary information.
6TWSc.02 Complete a key based on easily observed differences.
6TWSc.03 Choose equipment to carry out an investigation and use it appropriately.

6TWSc.04 Decide when observations and measurements need to be repeated to give more reliable data.

6TWSc.05 Take appropriately accurate measurements.


6TWSc.06 Carry out practical work safely.
6TWSc.07 Use a range of secondary information sources to research and select relevant evidence to
answer questions.
6TWSc.08 Collect and record observations and/or measurements in tables and diagrams appropriate to
the type of scientific enquiry.
Scientific enquiry: analysis, evaluation and conclusions
6TWSa.01 Describe the accuracy of predictions, based on results.
6TWSa.02 Describe patterns in results, including identifying any anomalous results.
6TWSa.03 Make a conclusion from results informed by scientific understanding.

6TWSa.04 Suggest how an investigation could be improved and explain any proposed changes.

6TWSa.05 Present and interpret results using tables, bar charts, dot plots, line graphs and scatter graphs.

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Biology
Structure and function

6Bs.01 Describe the human circulatory system in terms of the heart pumping blood through arteries,
capillaries and veins, describe its function (limited to transporting oxygen, nutrients and waste) and know
that many vertebrates have a similar circulatory system.

6Bs.02 Describe the human respiratory system in terms of oxygen from the air moving into the blood in the
lungs and know that many vertebrates have a similar respiratory system.

6Bs.03 Name the parts of the human reproductive system.


Life processes
6Bp.01 Describe the physical changes that take place during puberty in humans.
6Bp.02 Know that some diseases can be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, parasites or fungi that
can be passed from one host to another.
6Bp.03 Describe how good hygiene can control the spread of diseases transmitted in water, food and body
fluids, and describe ways to avoid being bitten by insect vectors.
6Bp.04 Know that humans have defence mechanisms against infectious diseases, including skin, stomach
acid and mucus.
Ecosystems
6Be.01 Interpret food webs and identify food chains within them.
6Be.02 Know that some substances can be toxic and damage living things, and that these substances can
move through a food chain/web.
6Be.03 Identify the energy source of a food chain/web and describe how energy is transferred through a
food chain/web.
Chemistry
Properties of materials

6Cp.01 Know that the temperature at which a substance changes state is a property of the substance.

6Cp.02 Know that gases have properties, including mass.

6Cp.03 Understand that electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity are properties of a substance.

Changes to materials
6Cc.01 Identify and describe physical changes that are reversible.

6Cc.02 Describe how temperature affects solids dissolving in liquids and relate it to the particle model.

6Cc.03 Describe the difference between boiling and evaporation.


6Cc.04 Understand that chemical reactions involve substances, called reactants, interacting to form new
substances, called products.
6Cc.05 Observe and describe the evidence that a chemical reaction has taken place (limited to a gas being
produced, colour change and change in temperature).

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Physics
Forces and energy
6Pf.01 Describe the difference between mass, measured in kilograms (kg), and weight, measured in
newtons (N)
6Pf.02 Describe the effect of gravity and know that when gravity changes, the weight of an object changes
but the mass does not.

6Pf.03 Use force diagrams to show the name, size and direction of forces acting on an object.

6Pf.04 Describe the effect of different forces on an object at rest and in motion.
6Pf.05 Recognise that the mass and shape of an object can affect if it floats or sinks.
Light and sound

6Ps.01 Describe how a ray of light changes direction when it is reflected from a plane mirror.

6Ps.02 Describe how a ray of light changes direction when it travels through different mediums and know
that this is called refraction.
Electricity and magnetism
6Pe.01 Use diagrams and conventional symbols to represent, make and compare circuits that include
cells, switches, lamps and buzzers.

6Pe.02 Make simple circuits and compare the brightness of lamps in series and parallel circuits.

Earth and Space


Planet Earth
6ESp.01 Know that rocks can be classified as metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary, and describe the
identifying features of each type of rock.
6ESp.02 Describe the way fossils can form in sedimentary rocks.
6ESp.03 Know that there are different types of soils and they can be classified based on their clay, sand
and organic content.

6ESp.04 Know that soil composition can change, which can support, or hinder, plant growth.

Cycles on Earth

6ESc.01 Describe the rock cycle and the formation of metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks in
terms of solidification, erosion, sedimentation, burial, metamorphism and melting.

Earth in space
6ESs.01 Describe the relative position and movement of the planets, the Moon and the Sun in the Solar
System.

6ESs.02 Observe and describe the changes in the appearance of the Moon over its monthly cycle.

Science in Context
6SIC.01 Describe how scientific knowledge and understanding changes over time through the use of
evidence gained by enquiry.

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6SIC.02 Describe how science is used in their local area.
6SIC.03 Use science to support points when discussing issues, situations or actions.
6SIC.04 Identify people who use science, including professionally, in their area and describe how they use
science.
6SIC.05 Discuss how the use of science and technology can have positive and negative environmental
effects on their local area.

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