Class 6 Science Notes

What science is, curiosity, and the scientific method: observe, question, guess, test and analyse.

Biodiversity, grouping plants (herbs, shrubs, trees, venation, roots, seeds) and animals, habitats and adaptations.

Components of food, tests for starch, fat and protein, balanced diet, deficiency diseases, millets and food miles.

Magnetic and non-magnetic materials, poles, finding directions with a compass, attraction and repulsion.

Standard units, SI unit of length, correct measuring, reference point, and linear, circular and oscillatory motion.

Grouping materials by appearance, hardness, transparency, solubility and mass; matter, mass and volume.

Hot and cold, temperature scales, clinical and laboratory thermometers and how to use them correctly.

Solid, liquid and gas states of water, evaporation, condensation, melting, freezing, cooling effect and the water cycle.

Handpicking, threshing, winnowing, sieving, evaporation, sedimentation, decantation, filtration, churning and magnetic separation.

Characteristics of living things, seed germination, growth and movement in plants, and life cycles of plants, mosquito and frog.

Air, water, sunlight, forests, soil, rocks, minerals and fossil fuels; renewable and non-renewable resources.

Stars and constellations, night-sky watching, the Solar System, the Moon, asteroids, comets, the Milky Way and the Universe.