AC9S3I01
Year 3
Science
AC9S3I01 | Year 3 Science: Questioning and predicting
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Questioning and predicting
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 3 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration acknowledging and using information from First Nations Australians to guide the development of questions regarding life cycles
- • Elaboration posing questions about the relationship between soil characteristics and the growth of particular plants, such as: ‘Will beans grow best in sandy, loamy or clay soils?’
- • Elaboration comparing simple maps of Australian agriculture and soil types and posing questions about observed patterns, such as: ‘Does wheat grow in particular soils?’
- • Elaboration posing questions about substances that are difficult to classify as a solid or liquid, such as toothpaste, slime or hair gel
- • Elaboration predicting whether the mass of ice in a sealed container will change when the ice has melted
- • Elaboration predicting which material will be the most effective insulator of heat
- • Elaboration predicting how quickly ice will melt at different ambient temperatures based on previous observations
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