Homeschool → Australia → Year 6
Year 6 homeschool curriculum
In Year 6, learners work with negative numbers, connect fractions, decimals and percentages, and use the order of operations. They convert between metric units, investigate angle relationships, compare data displays and express probabilities as numbers. Real-world contexts such as weather, shopping discounts and sport help bring these ideas to life.
In Year 6, students make deliberate grammatical choices, such as using active or passive voice to shape how information is presented. They analyse how persuasive texts are built to influence an audience and use Greek and Latin roots to understand and spell more sophisticated vocabulary. Students also explore a range of poetic forms, link ideas cohesively across paragraphs and edit their own writing with increasing independence, preparing them for the demands of secondary school.
In Year 6, students investigate how environmental conditions such as light, water and temperature affect the growth of living things. They classify changes to materials as reversible or irreversible, learn how earthquakes, volcanoes, bushfires and floods change Earth's surface, and build simple electric circuits. They design fair tests with controlled variables and repeated trials.
In Year 6, learners study how Australia became a nation and how its democracy has developed since Federation in 1901. They explore the struggle for rights, including voting rights for women and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the contributions of migrants to Australian society. In the Australian Curriculum v9.0 this learning sits within the HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) learning area.
In Year 6, learners investigate Australia's connections with the world, particularly the Asia region. They locate the countries and major features of Asia, explore how Australia is connected to other countries through trade, migration, travel, aid and culture, and compare indicators of wellbeing across countries. In the Australian Curriculum v9.0 this learning sits within the HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) learning area.