Our Year 6 science scheme of work and resources support pupils to develop increasingly secure scientific knowledge and enquiry skills as they progress through Upper KS2. Linked to the Year 6 Science National Curriculum, lessons combine clear teaching, practical investigation, scientific vocabulary and opportunities for pupils to analyse evidence and explain their ideas.
Current Year 6 units cover Light and Evolution and Inheritance, with sequenced lesson plans, teaching slides, worksheets, practical investigations, knowledge organisers and assessment materials ready to use in the classroom.
The Year 6 programme of study includes the following areas of science:
Across Upper KS2, pupils should develop their ability to:
Explore science planning and resources across Key Stage 2, with sequenced units designed to build scientific knowledge, vocabulary and working scientifically skills from Year 3 to Year 6.
Explore the KS2 science schemeIn Year 6 science, pupils build on their scientific knowledge and become increasingly independent in planning enquiries, analysing results and using evidence to explain their conclusions. The National Curriculum develops both pupils’ understanding of key scientific concepts and the working scientifically skills they need as they prepare for secondary science.
The Year 6 Science National Curriculum covers living things and their habitats, animals including humans, evolution and inheritance, light and electricity. Our current Year 6 Scintillating Science resources provide detailed units for Light and Evolution and Inheritance.
The Year 6 light unit develops pupils’ understanding that light travels in straight lines and helps them explain how light enables us to see objects. Pupils explore reflection and investigate how shadows are formed, including the relationship between the position of a light source, an object and its shadow.
In Year 6 evolution and inheritance, pupils learn that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide evidence about life on Earth in the past. They explore inherited characteristics, variation within species and how adaptation can help plants and animals survive in particular environments.
Working scientifically is developed through the science topics pupils study. In Year 6, pupils should become increasingly confident in planning enquiries, recognising and controlling variables, selecting appropriate ways to record data, interpreting results and deciding whether evidence supports or refutes scientific ideas.
Our Year 6 science resources provide teachers with clear, sequenced materials for teaching the available units, including:
By the end of Year 6, pupils should be able to use scientific vocabulary and evidence with increasing precision, explain relationships and patterns in their results and communicate scientific ideas clearly. Developing these skills alongside secure subject knowledge helps prepare pupils for the transition from primary to secondary science.
Explore more KS2 science planning and resources, or see our primary science scheme of work for Reception to Year 6.
