AC9S2I01 Year 2 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 2 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.

pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences

Elaborations

• 1 posing questions about how to make sounds with different instruments, such as: ‘If I do this, will it always produce a higher pitched sound?’
• 2 posing questions about the appearance or position of celestial objects in space across time, such as: ‘I wonder if the moon will look the same tomorrow or next week, as it does today?’
• 3 making predictions about what might occur when materials such as playdough or tissue paper are pulled with different strengths
• 4 making predictions about the relationship between vibration and sound, such as: ‘I think that if a ruler is twanged harder, it will make a louder sound’
• 5 making predictions about future appearances of phenomena in the sky at certain times of the week, month or year, such as the moon or satellites

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