AC9S1U03 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 pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects’ motion and shape

Elaborations

• 1 observing and manipulating everyday objects such as playground equipment, toys, windows or doors and identifying the forces used to move these objects
• 2 investigating how the design of age-appropriate sporting equipment such as paddles, plastic bats and racquets help to produce stronger pushes and pulls
• 3 recognising that pushing or pulling on an object can start or stop its motion or change its direction of travel
• 4 exploring ways the shape of playdough can be changed when pushed or pulled
• 5 designing playground equipment, toys or games and representing push and pull forces involved using models, digital drawings or role-play
• 6 investigating the push and pull movements of traditional First Nations Australians children’s instructive toys
• 7 exploring how traditional Asian toys and games such as a kendama, Daruma Otoshi or shuttlecock are played using a push or pull

Related Achievement Standards