AC9S2I03 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.

make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 recording observations through text, drawing, counts, digital photography or video
• 2 engaging in a guided discussion about how to measure something in a fair way
• 3 using familiar units of measurement such as cups, handspans, walking paces, blocks or pencil lengths
• 4 representing informal measurements with concrete objects, such as drawing chalk lines and using lengths of string to measure shadows
• 5 exploring how digital tools can be used to make observations, such as simple clap-o-meter apps that measure sound volume, time lapse digital photography for observing apparent movement of celestial objects or slow-motion videos for observing a vibrating ruler

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