AC9S4I01
Year 4
Science
AC9S4I01 – Year 4 Science: Questioning and predicting
Substrand
Questioning and predicting
This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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.
Content Description
pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
Elaborations
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1
posing questions about why some materials are used more often than others for particular products
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2
predicting the effect on food chains when living things are removed from or die out in an area
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3
consulting with First Nations Australians about how to predict the location of water sources from observation of landscape features
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4
making predictions about the distances over which magnets will attract or repel each other
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