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Class 6

Science: Curiosity

114 lessons in 12 chapters, explained in plain words.

The Wonderful World of Science

  1. What is science?
  2. The scientific method
  3. The pen that stopped writing
  4. Everyday scientists

Diversity in the Living World

  1. Biodiversity
  2. Grouping living things
  3. Herbs, shrubs and trees
  4. Leaf veins
  5. Taproots and fibrous roots
  6. Dicots and monocots
  7. How animals move
  8. Plant adaptations
  9. Animal adaptations
  10. Habitats
  11. Protecting biodiversity
  12. Janaki Ammal and Salim Ali

Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body

  1. Food and where it grows
  2. How cooking has changed
  3. Energy-giving foods
  4. Body-building foods
  5. Vitamins
  6. Minerals
  7. Nutrients, roughage and water
  8. Testing for nutrients
  9. Reading food labels
  10. Millets and fortified food
  11. Food miles
  12. Coluthur Gopalan

Exploring Magnets

  1. Kinds of magnets
  2. Magnetic or not?
  3. The poles of a magnet
  4. Finding north with a magnet
  5. The compass
  6. Attract or repel?
  7. Through non-magnetic things
  8. Marking and storing magnets

Measurement of Length and Motion

  1. Measuring with the body
  2. Standard units
  3. The right unit and tool
  4. Measuring correctly
  5. Writing lengths
  6. Measuring a curved line
  7. The reference point
  8. Motion and rest
  9. Kinds of motion

Materials Around Us

  1. Materials and objects
  2. Grouping objects
  3. Lustrous or not?
  4. Hard or soft?
  5. Transparent, translucent, opaque
  6. Soluble or insoluble?
  7. Mass
  8. Volume
  9. What is matter?

Temperature and its Measurement

  1. Touch and temperature
  2. Kinds of thermometer
  3. Using a clinical thermometer
  4. Normal body temperature
  5. Temperature scales
  6. The laboratory thermometer
  7. Reading a thermometer scale
  8. Measuring the temperature of water
  9. Boiling and melting
  10. Weather and Anna Mani

A Journey through States of Water

  1. Ice and water
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Three states of water
  5. Changing state
  6. Faster or slower evaporation
  7. Evaporation cools
  8. Clouds and rain
  9. The water cycle

Methods of Separation in Everyday Life

  1. Handpicking
  2. Threshing
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
  5. Evaporation
  6. Sedimentation and decantation
  7. Filtration
  8. Churning
  9. Magnetic separation
  10. Choosing a method

Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics

  1. Living or non-living?
  2. Plants move too
  3. Respiration
  4. Excretion
  5. Responding to stimuli
  6. What seeds need to sprout
  7. Which way roots and shoots grow
  8. A bean plant's life cycle
  9. A mosquito's life cycle
  10. A frog's life cycle

Nature’s Treasures

  1. Air
  2. Wind
  3. Water on Earth
  4. Saving water
  5. Energy from the Sun
  6. Forests
  7. Soil
  8. Rocks and minerals
  9. Fossil fuels
  10. Kinds of resources

Beyond Earth

  1. Stars and constellations
  2. Orion and Sirius
  3. The Pole Star
  4. Watching the night sky
  5. The Sun
  6. The planets
  7. What the planets are like
  8. Planet or star?
  9. Moons and the Moon
  10. Asteroids and comets
  11. The Milky Way