AC9S1U02 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.

describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life

Elaborations

• 1 making and recording observations of phenomena such as changes to weather, seasonal changes to plants such as colour or dropping of leaves, and growth of flowers or fruit
• 2 noticing how daily weather indicators and seasonal patterns help us to make plans for activities in our daily lives
• 3 investigating how seasonal changes affect plants and animals, including animals that hibernate and migrate
• 4 investigating how changes in the weather affect plants and animals, including humans
• 5 exploring how people make clothing choices using predictions of weather or knowledge of seasonal changes
• 6 recognising the extensive knowledges of daily and seasonal changes in weather patterns and landscape held by First Nations Australians
• 7 exploring how First Nations Australians’ concepts of time and weather patterns explain how things happen in the world around them

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