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AC9S4I01 Year 4 Science

AC9S4I01 | Year 4 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 4 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration posing questions about why some materials are used more often than others for particular products
  • • Elaboration predicting the effect on food chains when living things are removed from or die out in an area
  • • Elaboration consulting with First Nations Australians about how to predict the location of water sources from observation of landscape features
  • • Elaboration making predictions about the distances over which magnets will attract or repel each other

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