AC9S1I01 Year 1 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences

Elaborations

• 1 posing questions about simple relationships between push and pull forces, such as: ‘Does a toy car go further if it is pushed harder?’
• 2 posing questions about how animals meet their needs in particular places, such as: ‘Where does it shelter? Where does it get water from?’
• 3 making predictions about plant needs, such as: ‘I think a plant will die if it doesn’t get enough water’
• 4 making predictions about types of animals and plants they might observe in a particular place, such as a garden or pond
• 5 making predictions about patterns of observable phenomena such as seasonal changes of plants or changes in temperatures across the seasons

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