AC9S3I06 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.

write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 discussing how to construct simple reports of their investigations to share their predictions, methods, results and conclusions with their peers
• 2 consulting First Nations Australians’ representations of living things as evidenced and communicated through formal and informal sharing of information
• 3 writing a life-cycle story from the perspective of a living thing, including appropriate scientific terms for life stages
• 4 creating posters to display around school on the importance of placing compostable lunchtime food scraps such as apple cores in compost bins for use in kitchen gardens
• 5 collaborating to create a pictorial map of the school grounds showing where different rocks or soils can be found as part of the built or natural environment and creating a class display of rocks and soils collected
• 6 creating an advertisement to promote a new insulated container design to parents of primary-school-aged children
• 7 representing heat transfer using diagrams, digital drawings, arrows or labels using scientific vocabulary

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