Grade 6 - Science

The curriculum is designed to provide comprehensive coverage for ICSE, CBSE, IB & IGCSE boards and various Olympiads.

ACADEMIC SECTION

Physics:

1. Physical Quantities and Measurement: Students learn about different physical quantities (like length, mass, and time) and how to measure them accurately using various tools.
2. Forces: This topic covers how forces act on objects and affect their motion, helping students understand the basics of force and its relationship with movement.
3. Friction: Students explore how friction impacts movement, both positively (like providing grip) and negatively (like causing wear).
4. Pressure: The focus is on how force is distributed over an area and how pressure influences different materials and devices.
5. Work and Energy: This section teaches how forces cause movement, the transformation of energy, and the application of work and energy in physical processes.
6. Simple Machines: Students learn how simple machines like levers, pulleys, and inclined planes make tasks easier by reducing the effort needed.
7. Electricity, Circuits, and Magnetism: This topic covers the basics of electric currents, circuits, and how electricity and magnetism interact with materials.
8. Light, Shadows, and Reflection: Students investigate the behavior of light, including how it travels, forms shadows, and reflects to create images.

Chemistry:

1. Water: Students learn about the water cycle, including processes like evaporation and precipitation, and how water moves between the Earth and the atmosphere.
2. Common Laboratory Apparatus and Equipment: This section gives students hands-on experience with lab tools, teaching them how to handle and use equipment safely in experiments.
3. Matter: Students explore the properties of matter, the different states (solid, liquid, gas), and how matter changes from one state to another.
4. Elements, Compounds, Symbols, and Formulae: This topic covers the basics of chemistry, including how elements and compounds are represented using symbols and formulae.
5. Air and Atmosphere: Students study the composition of air, its properties, and its role in the environment.
6. Garbage in, Garbage Out: Focuses on waste management, including how waste affects the environment and the importance of reducing and recycling.
7. Changes Around Us: Students observe physical and chemical changes in their surroundings, understanding the processes involved.

Biology:

1. Living and Nonliving: Students distinguish between living and non-living things, understanding the characteristics that define life.
2. Body Movements: This topic covers how muscles and bones work together to enable different types of movement.
3. Food and Components of Food: Students learn about different food types, their nutritional components, and their importance for health.
4. Plants: Focuses on plant biology, including structure, functions, and processes like photosynthesis and reproduction.
5. Animals: Students study various animals, their characteristics, and their roles in ecosystems.
6. Health and Hygiene: Emphasizes the importance of maintaining good health and hygiene to prevent diseases.
7. Rock and Soil: Students learn about different types of rocks and soil, their properties, and their environmental roles.
8. Our Environment: Covers environmental science topics like ecosystems, biodiversity, and human impact on the environment.
9. Pollution and Pollutants: Students study different types of pollution and the effects of pollutants on living organisms and the environment.

Olympiad Section

Verbal Reasoning:

1. Logical Order of Words: Students arrange words in a logical sequence based on a specific criterion, such as alphabetical order or size.
2. Syllogism: This involves reasoning where students draw conclusions from two or more premises that are assumed to be true.
3. Analogy: Students identify relationships between pairs of words and apply the same relationship to another pair.
4. Blood Relation Test: Questions involve determining relationships between family members based on given information.
5. Series Completion: Students complete a sequence of numbers, letters, or objects based on a specific pattern.
6. Data Sufficiency: Students decide if the provided information is enough to answer a given question.
7. Arithmetic Reasoning: This involves solving problems using basic arithmetic operations and logical thinking.
8. Verification of Truth: Students determine the truthfulness of a given statement based on logical reasoning.
9. Classification: Students group items based on common characteristics, identifying the one that doesn’t belong.
10. Character Puzzles: These involve solving puzzles that focus on the arrangement and manipulation of characters or symbols.
11. Seating Arrangement: Students figure out the arrangement of people or objects based on specific conditions or clues.
12. Cube and Cuboid: Questions involve understanding the properties and relationships of cubes and cuboids, including visualization from different angles.
13. Logical Venn Diagrams: Students use Venn diagrams to solve problems involving sets, intersections, and unions.
14. Dice: These problems involve understanding and analyzing the different faces of a dice when rolled.
15. Direction Sense Test: Students solve problems that involve understanding and following directions.
16. Coding-Decoding: This involves deciphering codes where letters or numbers are replaced by other letters or numbers according to a specific rule.
17. Word Formation: Students form meaningful words from a given set of letters or rearrange words to form new ones.
18. Eligibility Test: Students assess whether a given set of conditions or qualifications is met for a specific situation.
19. Number, Ranking, and Time Sequence Test: These involve determining positions or sequences based on given criteria, like ranking or time.
20. Matrix Coding: Students analyse a matrix to identify patterns or solve problems related to coding.

Non-verbal Reasoning:

1. Completion of Series: Students identify the next figure or pattern in a series based on a specific sequence.
2. Analogy - Non-Verbal: Involves recognizing relationships between figures or shapes and applying the same logic to another pair.
3. Counting of Figures: Students count the number of specific shapes or figures within a complex diagram.
4. Mirror Images: This involves identifying the mirror image of a given figure.
5. Water Images: Students determine the water reflection (vertical inversion) of a given figure.
6. Embedded Figures: Students find a hidden figure within a complex pattern.
7. Completion of Figures: Involves completing a figure by identifying the missing part or pattern.
8. Figure Matrix: Students solve problems that involve identifying patterns or relationships in a matrix of figures.
9. Paper Folding: This involves predicting the appearance of a paper after it has been folded and then unfolded.
10. Classification: Students group figures based on common characteristics and identify the one that doesn’t belong.
11. Grouping of Figures: Involves categorizing figures into groups based on shared features.
12. Paper Cutting: Students predict the pattern that will emerge after a paper has been folded and cut.
13. Dot Situation: Students identify which figure among a set would fit a given dot situation when folded or manipulated.
14. Formation of Figures: Involves forming a complete figure from smaller pieces or shapes.
15. Square Completion: Students complete a square pattern by identifying the missing section.
16. Cubes and Dice: This topic involves visualizing the folding and unfolding of cubes and analyzing the patterns on dice.