Online Science Olympiad Classes for Grade 6

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Syllabus

Food and its Components

• Food and nutrients
• Ingredients of food
• Sources of food
• Food habits of animals
• Food chain
• Components of food: Carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, vitamins, water, roughage
• Testing of nutrients
• Nutrients in some common food items
• Different types of food
  • Energy-giving foods
  • Body-building foods
  • Protective foods
• Balanced diet
• Deficiency diseases
  • Deficiency of carbohydrate
  • Deficiency of proteins and fats: Kwashiorkor, Marasmus
  • Deficiency of vitamins and minerals: Scurvy, rickets, anaemia, goitre

Fibre to Fabric

• Clothing material-history
• Kinds of fibre
  • Natural fibre: Cotton (Ginning, spinning, weaving), Wool, Silk, Jute
  • Synthetic fibre
• Properties, manufacture and uses of natural and synthetic fibres

Sorting and Separation of Materials

• Matter - it's meaning and composition
• States of Matter: Solids, Liquids and Gases
• Characteristics of Solids, Liquids and Gases (Shape, texture and Volume)
• Distinguishing properties of Solids, liquids and Gases
• Classification of matter
• Properties of materials: Appearance, lustre, texture, state, solubility in water, Density-floating and sinking, transparency
• Mixture and pure substances
• Mixture (components of more than one substance combine in any proportion, original properties of the components are retained)
• Types of mixture: Homogeneous and heterogeneous mixture
• Properties of mixtures
• Necessity of separation
• Methods of separation
  • Separating solids from other solids
    • Threshing and winnowing
    • Hand-picking
    • Sieving
  • Separating insoluble solids from liquids
    • Sedimentation and decantation
    • Filtration
    • Loading
  • Application of methods of separation-obtaining drinking water
  • Separating soluble solids from liquids
    • Evaporation
    • Distillation
  • Separating liquids: miscible and immiscible liquids
  • Separation using more than one method
• Solubility
  • Solvent, solute and solution
  • Universal solvent
• Importance of water as a solvent
• Effect of temperature on solubility

Changes Around Us

• Cause that can bring about changes in Shape, size, position, colour, state, internal structure
• Reversible and irreversible changes
• Physical and chemical changes
• Changes when different substances are mixed: Example, Reaction between washing soda and lemon juice
• Exothermic and endothermic reaction
• Other types of changes: Fast, slow, periodic and non-periodic changes

Living Organisms and their Surroundings

• Biotic components and their interactions
  • Producers
  • Consumers
  • Decomposers
  • Interactions among biotic components
• Abiotic components and their interactions with biotic components
• Habitat and types of habitat
  • Aquatic or water habitats: Marine, freshwater, and coastal habitats
  • Terrestrial or land habitats: Desert, grassland, rainforest, tundra or polar habitats
• Adaptations
  • Adaptations for desert habitats, water habitats, polar and mountain habitats, grassland habitats, tropical rainforests habitats, aquatic habitats
    • Plant life
    • Animal life
• Characteristics of the living beings
  • Food, growth, respiration, responding to stimuli, reproduction, living organisms and excretion, movement

Motion and Measurement of Distances

• Physical quantities
• Standard units
  • Multiples and submultiples of units
• Measurement of Length
  • Concept of length as distance between two points
  • Measurement of length (ruler, measuring tape)
  • Units (with symbol and full name)
  • Measuring the length of a curved line: Using thread and using a divider
• Measurement of Mass
  • Concept of Mass as matter contained in an object
  • Measurement of Mass (Beam Balance, Electronic Balance)
  • Units (with symbol and full name)
• Measurement of Time
  • Concept of time and explanation in terms of hours, minutes and seconds
  • Measurement of Time (clock, watch, stop watch)
  • Units (with symbol and full name)
• Measurement of Temperature
  • Temperature as a measure of degree of hotness or coldness of body
  • Measurement of temperature (clinical thermometer, laboratory thermometer)
  • Normal temperature of a human body
  • Units (with symbol and full name)
• Measurement of Area
  • Concept of area
• Definition of motion
  • Story of transport
• Types of motion
  • Translatory motion
  • Rotational motion
  • Periodic motion
• Different motions at the same time

Light, Shadow and Reflections

• Sources of light
  • Luminous objects
  • Non-luminous objects
• Rays and beam
• Transparent, opaque and translucent object
• Rectilinear Propagation of Light
• Applications of rectilinear propagation of light
• Pinhole camera
  • Principle and Working
  • Factors on which the size of the image produced depends on
• Shadows
  • Umbra
  • Penumbra
  • Natural Shadows – Eclipse
    • Solar eclipse
    • Lunar eclipse
• Difference between shadows and images
• Reflection of light by a plane mirror

Electricity and Circuits

• Electric current
• Electric circuits
• Electric components
• Conductors and insulators
  • Testing which substance is a conductor and which is an insulator
• Electric cells: Dry cell, car battery, solar cell, button cell (no technical knowledge to be given)

Fun with Magnets

• Magnetic and non-magnetic substances
• Characteristics of a magnet
• Properties of magnets
• Poles of magnet
• Magnetic field around a magnet
• Earth’s magnetic field
  • The magnetic compass
• Making of Magnets
• Permanent & temporary magnets and their uses
• Electromagnets and choice of material for the core of the electromagnet
• Care & storage of magnets
• Demagnetization by heating, hammering and electricity

Our Environment

• Importance of water in everyday life (household purposes, industry, watering plants, etc.)
• Water resources (well, river, hand pump, lakes, pond, etc.)
• Water cycle
• Change of state of water
• Capacity to dissolve many salts in it
• Definition of Solute, Solvent and Solution
• Importance of water for sustenance of life on earth
• Reasons for water pollution; its prevention; conservation of water
• Air is present everywhere around us
• Air - a mixture of gases namely, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapour; dust and smoke as pollutants
• Percentage composition of air
• Uses of the components present (importance of nitrogen to plants to be mentioned)
• Definition of atmosphere as layer of air around the earth
• Oxygen cycle
• Type of waste
  • Biodegradable waste
  • Non-biodegradable waste
• Reusing and recycling waste
  • Segregation of waste
  • Recycling biodegradable waste
  • Reusing and recycling paper
  • Reusing and recycling non-biodegradable waste
  • Disposal of plastics
• Advantages of recycling
• Ways to reduce waste
• Four R’s of managing waste

Getting to Know Plants

• Types of plants: Herbs, shrubs, trees, climbers, creepers
• Parts of plant: Roots, stem, leaf, flower

Body Movements

• Human skeletal system
• Parts of human skeletal system
• Types of joints
• Movement of bones
• Movement in other animals