Science Year 6 Science as a human endeavour Science

Examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others

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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    v9 Changes

    This is a unit designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 6 Chemical Science. In it, students investigate how materials c...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    v9 Environmental Factors

    β€˜Environmental Factors’ is a Year 6 Biological Sciences unit aligned with the Australian National Curriculum. It is designed to cover ten le...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    v9 Electricity

    This is an eight lesson unit designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 6 Physical Science. Throughout this unit, student...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    Science Unit: Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth

    The Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth unit is a structured, inquiry-based learning program where students explore geological and wea...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Building Better Bridges

    This activity builds on the previous fun and learning of β€˜Building Bridges’ and challenges students to think about how engineers choose mate...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: What is a Hovercraft?

    This activity kit, designed to be used in conjunction with our β€˜What is a Hovercraft Presentation’ teaches your students the story of the ho...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: The Science of Flight

    This activity kit is designed to accompany the STEAM presentation on the Physics of Flight. In this pack, you will find all the necessary in...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Powerful Pollination

    This activity pack contains a fun pollination activity that turns your classroom into a field of flowers for the students to pollinate. It w...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Extinction Emergency

    This STEAM activity pack was designed to accompany our Extinction emergency presentation. It includes instructions for the STEAM activities,...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: The Big Bang

    This activity pack is designed to go along with our Big Bang presentation. This activity kit allows you to turn that interesting presentatio...

  • Presentation Year: 5 6

    Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth - Presentation

    The Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth presentation is a visually engaging PowerPoint that introduces students to geological and weat...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Building Better Bridges - Presentation

    This presentation is designed to introduce students to the concepts included in a STEM activity of the same title. It will help students und...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    The Science of Flight - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to the major forces involved in powered flight. It was designed as part of a STEAM activity pack that...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Powerful Pollination - Presentation

    This presentation teaches students the importance of pollination to the lifecycle of plants. It was created as part of a STEAM activity, and...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Extinction Emergency - Presentation

    In this STEAM presentation, your students will learn the various ways that animals have gone extinct over time and the current risk to endan...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Ask About it - The Big Bang Presentation

    In this presentation from our Ask About it STEM range, we respond to a student who asked a question about the Big Bang. After briefly discus...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    What is a Hovercraft? - Presentation

    The story of the hovercraft is a story of designing solutions to real-world problems and how the limits of technology can impact design.Β  I...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Extinction Bingo

    This game was created as an extension for a STEAM activity on extinction and endangered species. In this bingo game, a bingo caller works th...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plant Table

    This worksheet lets them compare their plant experiment’s measurements with the control group, as well as the other plants so that they can...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Mould Conclusions

    Students are able to complete their mould growth experiment, recording their final observations, and answering questions.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plant Observations

    This worksheet allows students to record their observations and measurements during their plant experiment.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plant Proposal

    In this worksheet, students create an experiment for how a plant grows. They’re asked to identify all the relevant variables, consider wethe...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Magic Mould Observation

    This worksheet enables students to record their observations during their mould growing experiment.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Ziploc Stencil

    This worksheet enables the students to trace a 1cm grid on a zipper top bag, which they’ll need to record their observations during the moul...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Dancing Daisies Debrief

    This 2 page worksheet is designed to work hand in hand with the first presentation in this unit, and help students better understand the sci...

  • Resource Year: 2 5 6

    Three Levels of Liquid

    The traditional demonstration of liquids and density. Use this colourful experiment to illustrate how liquids of different densities laye...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 6

    A Lemon Instead of Battery

    In this experiment, students create a chemical battery with a lemon that is able to power a small light. This could be an effective demon...

  • Resource Year: 2 5 6

    A Lamp with Bubbles

    An experiment that demonstrates the behaviour of liquids with different densities. Use this colourful experiment to illustrate how liquid...

  • Resource Year: 2 5 6

    A Growing Balloon

    A simple baking soda and vinegar chemical reaction inflates a balloon. Students learn that chemical reaction can produce a gas. Β 

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