Grade 6 Curriculum
Entering middle school: systems, ratio and responsibility
Middle School · Grade 6 – Grade 8
Grade 6 begins specialist study. Learners handle ratio and proportional reasoning, integrated science with formal lab reports, argument writing, and step into serious computational thinking, cybersecurity and career exploration.
Developmental learning priorities
- Ratio and proportional reasoning
- Argument writing with sources
- Laboratory discipline
- Computational thinking and first text code
- Study skills and organisation
Subjects taught in Grade 6
Argument, Analysis & Academic Writing(open for detail)
Learners analyse literature and non-fiction, distinguish claim from evidence, and write structured arguments with counter-arguments and correctly cited sources.
Annual learning objectives
- • Write a structured argument with evidence
- • Identify claim, evidence and reasoning in a text
- • Cite sources consistently
- • Analyse how word choice shapes meaning
Key units & topics
- • Argument writing
- • Literary analysis
- • Non-fiction analysis
- • Citation
- • Vocabulary and syntax
Skills developed
- • Argumentation
- • Source use
- • Analytical reading
Projects & performance tasks
- • Argument essay on a national issue with three cited sources
Technology & AI integration
Collaborative drafting with tracked revision; AI use permitted only for feedback and must be disclosed.
Assessment approach
Essay rubrics, tests and a source-verification check.
Ratio, Rate & Rational Numbers(open for detail)
Learners reason with ratios, rates and percentages, operate with negative numbers, work with expressions and one-step equations, and analyse data distributions.
Annual learning objectives
- • Solve ratio, rate and percentage problems
- • Operate with integers and rational numbers
- • Write and solve one-step equations
- • Describe a data distribution
Key units & topics
- • Ratio and proportion
- • Percent
- • Integers
- • Expressions and equations
- • Statistics
Skills developed
- • Proportional reasoning
- • Algebraic notation
- • Statistical description
Projects & performance tasks
- • Market price and currency conversion analysis project
Technology & AI integration
Spreadsheet models for proportional relationships and charts.
Assessment approach
Unit tests, problem sets and a data project.
Integrated Science I: Cells, Matter & Energy(open for detail)
Learners study cells and body systems, atoms and matter, and energy transfer, working with microscopes and laboratory equipment and writing formal lab reports.
Annual learning objectives
- • Describe cell structure and function
- • Explain states and properties of matter
- • Trace energy transfers in a system
- • Write a complete lab report
Key units & topics
- • Cells and body systems
- • Atoms and matter
- • Energy transfer
- • Laboratory method and safety
Skills developed
- • Laboratory technique
- • Report writing
- • Analysis
Projects & performance tasks
- • Microscope investigation of local water samples
Technology & AI integration
Digital data recording and simulations where equipment is limited.
Assessment approach
Lab reports, practical assessment and tests.
Computing Systems, Data & First Text Code(open for detail)
Learners study how computers represent data in binary, how networks and the internet work, and write their first structured text-based programs.
Annual learning objectives
- • Convert simple binary and decimal values
- • Explain how data travels on a network
- • Write a program using variables and conditionals
- • Trace and debug code
Key units & topics
- • Binary and data representation
- • Networks and the internet
- • Program structure
- • Debugging
Skills developed
- • Systems understanding
- • Programming
- • Debugging
Projects & performance tasks
- • Build a number-guessing or unit-converter program
Technology & AI integration
Foundation for Python work in Grade 7 and AI concepts in Grade 8.
Assessment approach
Code assignments, tracing tests and written examinations.
AI Concepts, Prompting & Ethics(open for detail)
Learners study how models are trained, practise structured prompting, examine hallucination and bias, and apply the school's academic-honesty policy for AI use.
Annual learning objectives
- • Explain training, prediction and hallucination
- • Write and refine effective prompts
- • Detect biased or fabricated output
- • Apply AI honesty rules in every subject
Key units & topics
- • How models learn
- • Prompting
- • Hallucination and bias
- • AI and academic honesty
Skills developed
- • Prompt design
- • Critical evaluation
- • Ethical use
Projects & performance tasks
- • Prompt-and-verify study guide with a documented error log
Technology & AI integration
Central FutureTech unit for the middle-school band.
Assessment approach
Verification logs, ethics writing and applied tasks.
Cybersecurity Foundations(open for detail)
Learners study authentication, phishing, scams, privacy settings and safe mobile-money habits, and learn defensive practice only.
Annual learning objectives
- • Explain how phishing works and spot it
- • Set up two-factor authentication
- • Audit privacy settings
- • Describe safe mobile-money behaviour
Key units & topics
- • Authentication
- • Phishing and scams
- • Privacy
- • Mobile-money safety
Skills developed
- • Threat recognition
- • Account security
- • Responsible advice
Projects & performance tasks
- • Phishing awareness campaign for the school community
Technology & AI integration
Includes AI-generated scam messages and how to spot them.
Assessment approach
Scenario tests, campaign quality and written work.
Career Exploration & Study Skills(open for detail)
Learners map their interests to career clusters, research pathways and requirements, and build the organisation, note-taking and time-management skills middle school demands.
Annual learning objectives
- • Match interests to career clusters
- • Research a career's requirements
- • Use a planner and manage deadlines
- • Take structured notes
Key units & topics
- • Career clusters
- • Pathway research
- • Study skills
- • Goal setting
Skills developed
- • Self-assessment
- • Research
- • Time management
Projects & performance tasks
- • Career research presentation with an interview of a working adult
Technology & AI integration
Learners study how technology is changing the careers they research.
Assessment approach
Research quality, presentation and organisation checks.
Adolescent Health, PE & Wellbeing(open for detail)
Learners study adolescent development, nutrition, disease prevention, mental health and peer pressure, and take part in organised sport and personal fitness tracking.
Annual learning objectives
- • Describe adolescent physical and emotional change
- • Apply disease-prevention practice
- • Use strategies for stress and emotional health
- • Set and pursue a fitness goal
Key units & topics
- • Adolescent development
- • Communicable disease
- • Mental health
- • Fitness and sport
Skills developed
- • Self-care
- • Help-seeking
- • Discipline
Projects & performance tasks
- • Personal fitness plan tracked over a term
Technology & AI integration
Fitness and wellbeing data recorded and charted.
Assessment approach
Tests, tracked progress and participation.
Arts & Performance(open for detail)
Learners deepen visual art skills or ensemble performance, study composition and stagecraft, and contribute to a public school production or exhibition.
Annual learning objectives
- • Apply advanced technique in a chosen art form
- • Collaborate in an ensemble or production team
- • Give and use critique
- • Perform or exhibit publicly
Key units & topics
- • Technique
- • Composition or stagecraft
- • Rehearsal discipline
- • Public showing
Skills developed
- • Craft
- • Collaboration
- • Confidence
Projects & performance tasks
- • School production or exhibition with learner production roles
Technology & AI integration
Digital recording, editing and design tools used in production.
Assessment approach
Performance, portfolio and rehearsal discipline.
History: Ancient World & Early Africa(open for detail)
Learners study early human societies, ancient Egypt, Nubia, Aksum and the classical civilisations, and how archaeology and written records let historians reconstruct life thousands of years ago.
Annual learning objectives
- • Place ancient civilisations on a world timeline and map
- • Explain how geography shaped early settlement
- • Interpret an artefact and an inscription as evidence
- • Write a paragraph explaining one cause and one consequence
Key units & topics
- • Early humans and agriculture
- • Egypt and Nubia
- • Aksum and the Horn
- • Classical Greece and Rome
- • Archaeology as evidence
Skills developed
- • World chronology
- • Geographic reasoning
- • Artefact interpretation
- • Causal paragraph writing
Projects & performance tasks
- • Museum exhibit panel on an ancient African civilisation
- • Illustrated world timeline for the classroom
Technology & AI integration
Learners use digital museum collections, cite the collection they used, and verify one AI-generated claim against the museum record.
Assessment approach
Document-based questions, exhibit panel rubric and a unit examination.
Civics: The Constitution & Branches of Government(open for detail)
Learners study the Constitution of Liberia, the executive, legislature and judiciary, what each branch does and how they check one another, and the principle that no one is above the law.
Annual learning objectives
- • Describe the three branches and their main functions
- • Explain two constitutional principles in their own words
- • Trace how a bill becomes law
- • Cite an article of the Constitution accurately
Key units & topics
- • The Constitution
- • Executive
- • Legislature
- • Judiciary
- • Separation of powers and rule of law
Skills developed
- • Reading a legal text
- • Structured explanation
- • Note-taking
- • Debate
Projects & performance tasks
- • Model legislature drafting and voting on a bill
- • Branch-of-government explainer posters for the school
Technology & AI integration
Learners read the Constitution from an official digital copy rather than a summary, and compare it with an AI-written summary to find errors.
Assessment approach
Constitution quiz, simulation rubric and a written explanation task.
End-of-year outcomes
By the end of Grade 6, a learner:
- Writes a cited argument essay with counter-argument.
- Reasons proportionally and works with rational numbers.
- Writes a complete laboratory report from own data.
- Writes and debugs a simple text-based program.
- Uses AI tools with verification, disclosure and ethical awareness.
World Geography & Early Civilisations(open for detail)
Learners study physical and human geography, population and settlement, and early African and world civilisations, using maps, data and primary sources.
Annual learning objectives
Key units & topics
Skills developed
Projects & performance tasks
Technology & AI integration
Digital atlases and development-indicator datasets.
Assessment approach
Document-based questions, projects and tests.