Year 6 science

IXL offers dozens of year 6 science skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalised Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, territory curriculum or standardised test.

IXL offers dozens of year 6 science skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalised Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, territory curriculum or standardised test.

A. Science practices and tools

  1. 1
    The process of science inquiry
  2. 2
    Identify laboratory tools
  3. 3
    Laboratory safety equipment

E. Mixtures

  1. 1
    Identify mixtures

F. Force and motion

  1. 1
    Predict forces using Newton’s third law of motion
  2. 2
    Balanced and unbalanced forces

H. Electricity and magnetism

  1. 1
    Electric circuits
  2. 2
    Conductors and insulators
  3. 3
    Identify magnets that attract or repel
  4. 4
    Label magnets that attract or repel
  5. 5
    Compare magnitudes of magnetic forces

I. Light

  1. 1
    How does light travel and interact with matter?

L. Ecosystems

  1. 1
    Describe populations, communities and ecosystems
  2. 2
    Identify ecosystems
  3. 3
    Describe ecosystems

N. Earth's features

  1. 1
    Label Earth layers
  2. 2
    Identify Earth's land features using photographs
  3. 3
    Identify Earth's land features using satellite images

O. Earth events

  1. 1
    Changes to Earth's surface: earthquakes
  2. 2
    Changes to Earth's surface: volcanic eruptions
  3. 3
    Changes to Earth's surface: erosion

Q. Units and measurement

  1. 1
    Choose units of distance, mass and volume
  2. 2
    Abbreviate time, length and speed units
  3. 3
    Abbreviate mass and volume units
  4. 4
    Abbreviate force, energy and electricity units