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AC9S1U02: Year 1 Science Content Descriptor – Earth and space sciences
AC9S1U02 Year 1 Science

AC9S1U02 – Year 1 Science: Earth and space sciences

Strand
Science understanding
Substrand
Earth and space 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

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

Elaborations

  • • 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
  • • noticing how daily weather indicators and seasonal patterns help us to make plans for activities in our daily lives
  • • investigating how seasonal changes affect plants and animals, including animals that hibernate and migrate
  • • investigating how changes in the weather affect plants and animals, including humans
  • • exploring how people make clothing choices using predictions of weather or knowledge of seasonal changes
  • • recognising the extensive knowledges of daily and seasonal changes in weather patterns and landscape held by First Nations Australians
  • • exploring how First Nations Australians’ concepts of time and weather patterns explain how things happen in the world around them

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.