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AC9S1U01: Year 1 Science Content Descriptor – Biological sciences
AC9S1U01 Year 1 Science

AC9S1U01 – Year 1 Science: Biological sciences

Strand
Science understanding
Substrand
Biological sciences

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

identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs

Elaborations

  • • identifying the places where plants and animals live, including in our homes, local areas such as ponds, national parks, gardens or zoos
  • • identifying what they do to look after pets or plants at home and grouping these activities
  • • identifying and comparing the needs of a variety of plants and animals, including humans, based on their own experiences
  • • creating dioramas of a place a plant or animal lives, and identifying the features that enable it to meet its needs
  • • recognising how First Nations Australians care for living things
  • • exploring why caring for plants and animals is important including as sources of food and fibre

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.