YEAR 6 GOLDEN NUGGETS

~ Bake It ~
(7 science tasks)
National Curriculum coverage, by the end of the 7 sessions
- Scientific enquiry skills
- Properties and changes of materials
- Living things and their habitats
- States of matter (Y4)
NC: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to
common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences,
including micro-organisms, plants and animals.
IPC: How we know yeast is alive
 All living things have the following life processes: movement, respiration,
sense, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition (these can be
remembered with the acronym MRS GREN).
 Some living things are microscopic. We call these microorganisms.
 Yeast is a kind of microorganism (a fungus). We know it is alive because we
can feed it sugar and it will respire.

NC: Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible
changes.
Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that
this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with
burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.
IPC: Reversible or irreversible changes
 Changes to materials are either reversible (the material can change back to
its original state) or irreversible (the material cannot return to its original
state).
 Changes in state of matter are reversible, e.g. water can be frozen into ice,
and can then be melted to return it to water.
 Irreversible changes occur when the original materials create a new product.
This often happens in cooking, e.g. when flour, yeast and water combine
and are heated to make bread.

NC: Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe
how to recover a substance from a solution.
IPC: Testing solubility
Factors that influence solubility
 Some solids can dissolve into liquids (become part of a liquid, e.g. sugar
mixed with water). The resulting mixture is called a solution. Not every solid
can dissolve – substances that cannot dissolve are insoluble.
 When a substance dissolves, it does not disappear – solutions can be
separated back out. Therefore, dissolving is a reversible change.
 YEAR 6 GOLDEN NUGGETS
~ Bake It ~
(7 science tasks)

NC: Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be
separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating.
IPC: Solids, liquids and gases
Carbon dioxide
 Most materials exist in one of these three states:
Solids: Have a fixed shape and volume, particles do not move about.
Liquids: Have a fixed volume but can change shape, e.g. taking the shape of
the container it is poured into. The particles have strong bonds but can
move about.
Gas: Can change shape and volume, can be compressed or expand to fill
any space. Carbon dioxide is a gas which many living things exhale (breathe
out).
 Most materials can change state by heating or cooling, e.g. water (liquid)
can be frozen to make ice (solid) or evaporated to make vapour (gas). Solids
can be melted into liquids, and gases can be condensed to make liquids.
 Changes of state can be used to separate out the materials in solutions. For
example, a salt water solution can be separated back out by evaporating the
water to leave the salt behind.