Year 1 Science Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 1 Science by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 1 students identify how living things meet their needs in the places they live. They identify daily and seasonal changes and describe ways these changes affect their everyday life. They describe how different pushes and pulls change the motion and shape of objects. They describe situations where they use science in their daily lives and identify examples of people making scientific predictions.
Students pose questions to explore observations and make predictions based on experiences. They follow safe procedures to make and record observations. They use provided tables and organisers to sort and order data and information and, with guidance, represent patterns. With guidance, they compare observations with predictions and identify further questions. They use everyday vocabulary to communicate observations, findings and ideas.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:
Science as a human endeavour
Use and influence of science
AC9S1H01 describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictionsScience inquiry
Questioning and predicting
AC9S1I01 pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiencesPlanning and conducting
AC9S1I02 suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions AC9S1I03 make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriateProcessing, modelling and analysing
AC9S1I04 sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical modelsEvaluating
AC9S1I05 compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidanceCommunicating
AC9S1I06 write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabularyScience understanding
Biological sciences
AC9S1U01 identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needsEarth and space sciences
AC9S1U02 describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday lifePhysical sciences
AC9S1U03 describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects’ motion and shapeAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science as a human endeavour | Use and influence of science | 1 | 8 |
| Science inquiry | Questioning and predicting | 1 | 5 |
| Science inquiry | Planning and conducting | 2 | 8 |
| Science inquiry | Processing, modelling and analysing | 1 | 0 |
| Science inquiry | Evaluating | 1 | 5 |
| Science inquiry | Communicating | 1 | 6 |
| Science understanding | Biological sciences | 1 | 6 |
| Science understanding | Earth and space sciences | 1 | 7 |
| Science understanding | Physical sciences | 1 | 7 |
| Total | 10 | 52 | |