AC9S3I01 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 acknowledging and using information from First Nations Australians to guide the development of questions regarding life cycles
• 2 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?’
• 3 comparing simple maps of Australian agriculture and soil types and posing questions about observed patterns, such as: ‘Does wheat grow in particular soils?’
• 4 posing questions about substances that are difficult to classify as a solid or liquid, such as toothpaste, slime or hair gel
• 5 predicting whether the mass of ice in a sealed container will change when the ice has melted
• 6 predicting which material will be the most effective insulator of heat
• 7 predicting how quickly ice will melt at different ambient temperatures based on previous observations

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