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AC9S1I05: Year 1 Science Content Descriptor – Evaluating
AC9S1I05 Year 1 Science

AC9S1I05 – Year 1 Science: Evaluating

Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Evaluating

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

compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance

Elaborations

  • • comparing observations with those of others, such as how many birds each group counted in the playground or how much each group’s seedling has grown in a week
  • • consulting with First Nations Australians to compare observations and evaluate identifications of animal tracks
  • • exploring if making weather observations at different times of day makes a difference and considering how they could compare weather across each day more fairly
  • • comparing observations of movement with predictions, such as how far an object travels
  • • exploring if all ‘big’ pushes are the same by comparing how far an object travels with different students doing the pushing, and discussing how they could have made the investigation fairer

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.