Year 6 Science worksheets

A life cycle is the different stages of life for a living thing. Fill in a circular life cycle diagram to show you understand how a plant's life cycle works.

With Christmas lists to write, present-delivery schedules to work out, Grotto problems to solve and light and dark experiments to try this bumper pack of festive learning activities will keep your child engaged over the Christmas break.

Can you sort these statements about the effects of exercise into the ‘True’ and ‘False’ columns below?

When we have children, we pass on our genes to them. This is why you may look like your mum or dad, or you may be good at something (or not good at something!), just like them. Draw portraits of yourself, your mum and your dad. Do you share any physical characteristics? Can you give examples of how you are similar to your parents in behaviour or ability?

Mary Anning was born in 1799. She is famous because of her fossil discoveries and the important contribution they made to the scientific study of prehistoric life. See if you can find the answers to these questions by researching her life on the internet or in your library.

We see an object because light shines onto it and is reflected back into our eye. When it gets dark this evening, try this activity to prove the theory.

Have you heard about Darwin's theories on evolution? Have a look on the internet or in your local library. Can you find any examples of species evolving over time? Record your research.

Do you know the difference between animals, plants, micro-organisms? See if you can you put all these in the correct group.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.