Grade 6Integrated Science
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 6 Integrated Science curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1Living Things and their EnvironmentLife, from what cannot be seen without looking hard to the blood moving round your child's own body.
Living Things
4 skillsA mixed set across the strand: vertebrates, flowering plants and the processes common to everything alive.
Human Body and Health
2 skillsA mixed set on the body: digestion, and keeping the circulation healthy.
Environment
3 skillsA mixed set on the world around us: air quality, waste, and wildlife conservation.
Fungi
5 skillsWhere they grow, what they are for, and the precautions worth taking around them.
Invertebrates
5 skillsThe animals without a backbone, which is most animals. Grouping them, and why they matter economically.
Human Circulatory System
6 skillsThe heart, the blood and the vessels, and what goes wrong when they are neglected. The widest topic in the strand.
2MatterWhat everything is made of, and what happens when it changes.
Matter and Materials
3 skillsA mixed set across the strand: change of state, the properties of materials and of gases.
Change of State
4 skillsMelting, boiling, freezing and condensing, and the safety that goes with heating things.
Composition of Air
4 skillsWhat air is actually made of, what each part is used for, and what pollution does to it.
3Force and EnergyThe largest strand: light, and the simple machines that make work easier.
Forces and Machines
4 skillsA mixed set ranging across the strand: simple machines, heat, light and why things float.
Light
3 skillsHow it travels, the shadows it makes, and what a mirror does with it.
Levers as Simple Machines
2 skillsWhy a longer handle makes a job easier, and the three classes of lever.
Slopes as Simple Machines
2 skillsWhy pushing a load up a ramp beats lifting it.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 6 Integrated Science curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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