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Grade 6 curriculum map

Every subject, unit, and learning outcome

A transparent look at exactly what your child works towards in Grade 6. Each unit lists the specific learning outcomes: what a child will be able to do by the end of it.

💪Durable Skills🔢Math🔬Science📖ELA💻Computational Thinking
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Durable Skills

We teach these durable skills explicitly, and children practise them inside every project too. See how durable skills are practised within projects →

💗Social Emotional Learning

  • Grow their curiosity by exploring ideas and tinkering, with a positive attitude towards surprises and mistakes.
  • Practise curiosity by asking questions with See, Think, Wonder.
  • Begin to build a growth mindset, believing success comes from iterating with feedback (“you can learn anything”).

🧠Critical Thinking

  • Identify logical fallacies such as appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, cherry-picking, and the bandwagon effect.
  • Evaluate how valid a claim is from its evidence and source (the C-S-E technique).
  • Judge whether an observation gives enough evidence to firmly support a conclusion.

🎓Learning How to Learn

  • Tell a SMART goal apart from a vague one.
  • Pick a single goal, set a Pomodoro, and block distractions for 20 minutes.
  • Try the Feynman technique: explain an idea simply (to a rubber duck) and find the gaps.
  • Use elaborative interrogation: ask questions and connect new ideas to what they already know.
  • Make a concept map to organise knowledge and spot gaps.
  • Use self-testing and active recall to check their own learning.

💰Financial Literacy

  • Tell a financial need apart from a want, and recognise when it depends.
  • Understand income, expenses, savings, and financial goals (short, medium, and long term).
  • Understand a financial plan, the 50/30/20 rule, emergency funds, and why high-interest debt is paid off first.
  • Understand that money is a shared story, and that spending and saving choices are shaped by upbringing and personality.
  • Create a financial plan for a client, covering income, expenses, needs versus wants, goals, and savings.
  • Calculate total savings over a number of months using a single-variable equation.
  • Suggest tweaks to expenses and goals, and answer common family questions about money.
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Math

🍕Fraction Fundamentals

  • Develop an intuition for what a fraction means in the real world.
  • Identify and compare fractions using visual models like circles, rectangles, and number lines.
  • Compare unlike fractions by making the numerators or denominators the same.
  • Find the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two or more numbers and use it to compare fractions.
  • Explain what it means to simplify a fraction and why simplifying does not change its value.
  • Find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of two numbers and use it to simplify fractions in one step.
  • Add and subtract like fractions and mixed fractions.
  • Multiply a fraction by a whole number and explain the process visually.

🔟Decimal Fundamentals

  • Explain decimals as fractions written in base-10 form.
  • Identify tenths and hundredths.
  • Locate decimals on a number line using place-value reasoning.
  • Compare and order decimals by analysing place values from left to right.
  • Add and subtract decimals by aligning place values.
  • Multiply decimals using place-value reasoning and divide decimals using long division.

🧩Algebra Foundations

  • Represent an unknown number using a letter or symbol (e.g., 19 + x = 40).
  • Tell variables and constants apart in an expression or equation.
  • Solve an equation to find an unknown, using substitution or doing the same operation on both sides.
  • Write expressions using letters for unknowns from simple word phrases.
  • Solve word problems and equations of the form x + p = q and px = q with non-negative rational numbers.

➕Arithmetic (MYP 1)

  • Do multi-digit multiplication using the algorithm (3-digit by 2-digit).
  • Do multi-digit division using the algorithm (4-digit by 2-digit).
  • Solve simple word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Solve multi-step word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Mentally estimate results of operations on multi-digit numbers using rounding.
  • Use rounding and inverse operations to check answers to word problems.
  • Compare and order positive and negative numbers.
  • Add and subtract simple negative numbers.

✖️Factors & Multiples

  • Find every factor pair for numbers 1 to 100.
  • Understand that every whole number is a multiple of its factors.
  • Use divisibility rules to tell whether a number is a multiple of a one-digit number.
  • Classify a whole number (1 to 100) as prime or composite.
  • Find the LCM of any two numbers.
  • Find the HCF of any two numbers.

🧮Fractions

  • Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.
  • Add and subtract mixed fractions.
  • Multiply a fraction by a whole number and by another fraction.
  • Divide a fraction by a whole number.
  • Divide a fraction by another fraction.
  • Solve word problems involving the four operations on fractions, using equations and visual models.

💯Decimals

  • Add and subtract decimals up to the thousandths place.
  • Multiply decimal numbers by whole numbers.
  • Multiply two decimal numbers.
  • Divide a decimal by a whole number.
  • Divide a decimal by another decimal.
  • Explain the patterns in zeros and decimal-point placement when multiplying or dividing by powers of 10 (using whole-number exponents).
  • Solve word problems involving the four operations on decimals, using equations and visual models.

📐Geometry

  • Plot points, lines, and shapes on the coordinate plane (Quadrant 1 through all four quadrants).
  • Understand the relationship between two-dimensional figures and three-dimensional objects.
  • Identify and classify different categories of triangles and their properties.
  • Classify quadrilaterals by properties such as angles, sides, and parallel or perpendicular lines.

📏Measurement & Areas

  • Apply area and perimeter formulas for rectangles and squares to real-world and mathematical problems (e.g., finding an unknown width from an area).
  • Solve real-world problems involving the area of other 2D figures such as triangles, parallelograms, and composite shapes (not circles).

🔣Algebra (MYP)

  • Read and write simple powers with small exponents, explaining them as repeated multiplication (e.g., 3² = 3 × 3).
  • Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.
  • Identify the rule behind a number or shape pattern and find the unknowns (e.g., 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, …).
  • Use the order of operations to evaluate expressions with parentheses, brackets, and braces.
  • Use properties of operations (distributive, commutative, associative) to rewrite expressions in equivalent forms.
  • Represent two changing quantities with variables, write an equation connecting them, and analyse the relationship with tables and graphs (e.g., taxi fare vs distance).

🚗Rates

  • Understand a unit rate a/b as the ratio a:b and use correct “per” language in context (e.g., miles per hour).
  • Solve word problems involving unit rates, such as unit pricing, constant speed, and work done per hour.

🏷️Percentage

  • Understand a percent as a rate per 100, and as a fraction and a decimal (e.g., 25% = 25/100 = 1/4 = 0.25).
  • Convert between fractions, percents, and decimals.
  • Find a given percent of a number using models or equations.
  • Given two quantities, find what percent one is of the other.
  • Solve real-world problems involving percent increase, decrease, discounts, tips, and taxes.

📈Data

  • Read and interpret a line graph.
  • Plot a line graph.

🧠Problem Solving

  • Build arithmetic fluency in the four operations through games and puzzles.
  • Develop multiplication and strategy through Math Pickle games (Zebra; 7, 11, 13; Math-Magic).
  • Tackle problem-solving challenges on AoPS Alcumus.
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Science

🏃Force & Motion

  • Understand that motion is relative, and an object’s state of motion is meaningless without a point of view.
  • Understand that force changes an object’s velocity, which is what Newton’s first law means.
  • Understand and apply Newton’s third law of motion.
  • Identify the forces acting on an object and explain whether it will move and why.

⚡Electricity

  • Determine the net charge of a particle or system by adding protons and electrons.
  • Explain at an atomic level what happens when current flows in a simple DC circuit (battery → conductor with free electrons → bulb or fan converting electrical energy to light, heat, or motion).

💡Light

  • Explain how we see things: a source sends rays that travel straight, reflect off an object, and enter the eye.
  • Use the first law of reflection.

🔊Sound

  • Describe how sound is produced by the vibration of materials.
  • Explain that sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel and cannot travel through a vacuum.
  • Explain how molecular vibrations relate to the frequency and amplitude of a sound.
  • Explain how we hear sound (vibrations disturb the medium, the eardrum vibrates, the brain interprets it).

🍎Nutrition

  • Describe the main function of each nutrient (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins).
  • Read and interpret a product’s nutrition label.

⚗️Chemistry

  • Distinguish between pure substances (elements, molecules, compounds) and mixtures.
  • Explain the states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) using particle motion.
  • Explain melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation using particle motion.
  • Distinguish physical from chemical changes.
  • Explain that in a chemical change old bonds break and new ones form, creating new substances and signs like a colour change, gas, or a precipitate.
  • Explain that atoms rearrange rather than disappear in a reaction, so total mass is conserved.
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ELA

📚Reading Literature

  • Quote from a text to explain what it says and to support inferences.
  • Find the theme of a story, drama, or poem, and summarise it.
  • Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events using details from the text.

📰Reading Informational Text

  • Quote from a text to explain what it says and to support inferences.
  • Find two or more main ideas and explain how key details support them; summarise the text.
  • Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support each point.

✍️Writing

  • Write opinion pieces with a clear opinion, ordered reasons, and a conclusion.
  • Write informative texts that introduce a topic, develop it with facts and details, and use precise vocabulary.
  • Produce clear, coherent writing suited to the task, purpose, and audience.
  • Plan, revise, and edit to strengthen their writing.

🗣️Speaking & Listening

  • Take part in group discussions: come prepared, build on others’ ideas, and ask and answer questions.
  • Summarise a speaker’s points and explain how evidence supports each claim.
  • Present ideas in a logical order with relevant facts and details, speaking clearly.
  • Adapt how they speak to the situation, using formal English when needed.

🔤Grammar

  • Use conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly.
  • Form and use the perfect verb tenses (e.g., I had walked, I have walked, I will have walked).
  • Use verb tenses correctly and fix incorrect shifts in tense.
  • Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).
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Computational Thinking

⚙️Fundamentals

  • Create programs using repeat loops.
  • Write programs using nested loops.
  • Create and use events in their programs.
  • Know when to use “if” and “if-else”, and use them correctly.
  • Create variables, store information in them, and use random numbers in their programs.

😀Animoji Project

  • Pass appropriate coordinates as parameters.
  • Draw shapes with the correct coordinates.
  • Use variables for numbers and strings.
  • Create random numbers.
  • Create an animation using a draw loop.

🎨Kaleidoscopic Paint App Project

  • Use conditionals (if / else) to create effective control flow.
  • Use mouse and keyboard inputs.

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