AC9S3H02 Year 3 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

consider how people use scientific explanations to meet a need or solve a problem

Elaborations

• 1 recognising how First Nations Australians observe and describe developmental changes in plants and animals to make decisions about when to harvest certain resources
• 2 exploring the history of manure and compost use in agriculture and how composting can help improve soil condition and plant growth
• 3 investigating how understanding of life cycles of insect pests such as fruit flies led to effective control strategies
• 4 investigating why salt, was so important to people’s diets, food preservation and medicine in ancient times that it was known as ‘white gold’
• 5 exploring how science knowledge of heat transfer has helped people develop different ways to cook food, such as by boiling, frying or roasting
• 6 investigating how engineers test the insulation properties of materials, and how this information is used to design food and beverage packaging, building insulation or clothing

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