Primary 6 / Year 6 Science Curriculum
Alpha Brain teaches Primary 6 (Year 6) science through 9 dojos and 23 short narrated levels, for children aged 10–11.
Coverage spans Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space, Living Things and Our Environment.
Every level is matched to both the Nigerian NERDC primary curriculum and the British Key Stage 2, and plays in a browser or the installed app.
- Class (Nigeria)
- Primary 6
- Year group (UK)
- Year 6
- Stage (UK)
- Key Stage 2
- Age
- 10–11
- Dojos
- 9
- Levels
- 23
Primary 6 Science topics
Materials & Their Properties
Solid, Liquid, Gas
States of matter
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Ada scoops water from a muddy stream. How can she remove the sand from the water?”
- “Chidi puts a bottle of water in the freezer and it turns to ice. Can he change it back into water?”
Forces & Energy
Light Dojo
Light & shadows
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Put these in order: where light starts, what it hits, and where it ends up.”
- “Ngozi says a periscope uses two mirrors to see over a high wall. Is she right?”
Spark Dojo
Circuits & conductors
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Three of these are conductors. Which one is the insulator?”
- “Sort these into conductors and insulators.”
Machine Dojo
Levers, ramps & pulleys
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Why do we oil a bicycle chain?”
- “Emeka's scissors have two sharp blades that squeeze through paper, turning on a fixed joint in the middle. Which two simple machines do scissors combine?”
- “Emeka turns a small gear wheel on a hand drill, which is connected to a much bigger gear wheel. Compared to the gear he turns, does the other gear turn faster or slower?”
Earth & Space
Water Cycle Dojo
Evaporation to rain
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Three of these are stages of the water cycle. Which one is not?”
- “Put the stages of the water cycle in the right order.”
- “Sort these everyday scenes into the water cycle stage they show.”
Space Dojo
Sun, moon & planets
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Ada lets go of a mango high up in a tree. What pulls it down to the ground?”
- “It is midday and the sun is high overhead where Emeka lives. Is Emeka's shadow long or short?”
- “Tunde says a planet makes its own light like the sun. Is he right?”
Living Things
Inside My Body Dojo
Teeth, bones, heart & lungs
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Tunde notices his breathing gets faster and deeper after running. Why does this happen?”
- “Ngozi asks why doctors say children should exercise. What is the reason?”
- “True or false: nutrients from food pass into the blood inside the intestines.”
Food Chain Dojo
Who eats what
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “Emeka observes a goat. It has fur and feeds its babies milk. Which group does it belong to — mammal, bird, fish, or insect?”
- “If all the maize plants disappeared, what would most likely happen to the grasshoppers that eat them?”
Our Environment
Our Earth Dojo
Keeping our environment healthy
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 6
Questions at this level look like:
- “If people keep burning rubbish in the same spot every week, what happens to the air nearby?”
- “Is this a safe or healthy thing to do?”
What a level is like
Every level is 10 questions long and takes a few minutes. Questions are read aloud in recorded narration rather than robotic text-to-speech, and answers are tapped, dragged or typed on a number pad rather than written, so a child who is still learning to read can play unaided.
Most dojos open with a short lesson before the questions start. Get one wrong and the level teaches the step you missed before showing the answer, and you can play the level again — the questions vary on each replay, so it is practice rather than memorising a fixed sheet. Levels are scored out of three stars.
Primary 6 Science questions parents ask
- What does Alpha Brain cover in Primary 6 Science?
- Alpha Brain teaches Primary 6 (Year 6) science through 9 dojos and 23 short narrated levels, for children aged 10–11. The topics are Solid, Liquid, Gas, Light, Spark, Water Cycle and 5 more, grouped under Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space, Living Things and Our Environment.
- What is Primary 6 in the British system?
- Primary 6 in Nigeria matches Year 6 in the UK, which sits in Key Stage 2, for children aged 10–11. Alpha Brain teaches both from the same science levels, so a family moving between the two systems keeps its progress.
- Is the Primary 6 Science content aligned to the NERDC curriculum?
- Yes. Every science dojo is tagged to a NERDC strand — at Primary 6 that is Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space, Living Things and Our Environment — and the same levels are matched to the British Key Stage 2 programme of study.
- How many Science levels are there for Primary 6?
- 23 levels across 9 dojos at Primary 6 / Year 6, at 10 questions a level — about 230 questions. A level takes a few minutes, so it fits a school night.
- Does Alpha Brain cover the National Common Entrance syllabus?
- Alpha Brain is not an exam-prep course and does not publish past papers. It does teach the science groundwork the National Common Entrance Examination draws on: at Primary 6 that is Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space, Living Things and Our Environment, practised across 23 levels.
- How much does Alpha Brain cost?
- Alpha Brain is free to play online — every dojo, every level, with narration. Ninja Pass is ₦1,500 a month, or ₦15,000 a year (two months free), and adds offline play, the parent progress report and up to three children. That covers all three subjects — Maths, English and Science — from Nursery 1 to Primary 6, not just Science.
Play Primary 6 Science tonight
Create an account, pick Primary 6 in Settings, and your child starts on the first level of whichever dojo you choose.
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