Grade 6 (MYP 1)

Diving into Science

-Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships.
-Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and
phenomena.
-Science may be discovered by chance/ accidentally.
-Working Safely in a Science Lab.

Living Things
-Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things.
-Living things have life cycles.
-Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive.
-There are differences within and between groups of organisms; classification helps organise this diversity
-Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.
-Interactions between organisms can be described in terms of food chains and food webs; human activity can affect
these interactions.

Whats the Matter?

-Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties; These properties can influence their use.
-Solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways.
-Changes to materials can be reversible, such as melting, freezing, evaporating; or irreversible, such as burning and
rusting.
-The properties of the different states of matter can be explained in terms of the motion and arrangement of particles.

Forces and Energy

-Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from a distance.
-Change to an objects motion is caused by unbalanced forces acting on the object.
-Energy appears in different forms including movement (kinetic energy), heat and potential energy, and causes change
within systems.

Growing up and exploring Human limitations

- The male sex cell is the sperm (made in the testis) and the female sex cell (made in the ovary) is the
egg.
- The sperm tube carries sperm to the penis; glands add fluid to the sperms to make semen; the egg
tube carries an egg to the uterus every month.
- In a pregnant woman the baby grows in the uterus.
- During sexual intercorse, the sperm meets the egg (if the egg is available) and fertilisation happens.
- At fertilisation the sperm penetrates the egg and its nucleus joins with the egg nucleus.
- If the egg is fertilised it passes down the egg tube and settles into the uterus; the fertilised egg grows
into a fetus.
- If an egg is not fertilised, then the uterus lining breaks down and leaves through the vagina. This is a
period.
- The placenta acts as a barrier to infections and harmful substances; the cord carries blood with
oxygen and food to the fetus from the placenta; later the cord and placenta are passed out as the after-birth.
- The fluid sac acts as a shock absorber to protect the fetus.
- Contractions of the uterus muscles are the start of labour; babies are usually born head first through
the vagina.
- At adolescence our bodies and our emotions change. Hormones are chemicals that bring about
these changes.
- Life stages (about physical and emotion): infancy, early childhood, adolescence, early adulthood,
middle adulthood, later adulthood.
Light and Sound
-Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed.

- Light and Sound travel as waves.

-Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted
- Sound waves can also be reflected and absorbed.