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AC9S1I03: Year 1 Science Content Descriptor – Planning and conducting
AC9S1I03 Year 1 Science

AC9S1I03 – Year 1 Science: Planning and conducting

Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Planning and conducting

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.

Content Descriptor

make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

  • • exploring what an observation is, and different ways to make observations through guided discussion
  • • counting and using informal measurements such as cups, handspans, walking paces, blocks, pencil lengths or lengths of string
  • • making suggestions about types of measurements that may be made during an investigation, including using blocks to measure plant growth or paces to measure how far an object has moved
  • • recording observations through text, drawing, counts, informal measurements, digital photography or video

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASSCIY1
Year 1 Science Achievement Standard
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.