AC9S4I03 Year 4 Science

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.

follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 identifying animals in field locations using procedures such as direct or virtual observation, call or scat identification or pitfall traps
• 2 using appropriate equipment to make and record observations, such as digital cameras, video, voice recorders and familiar scaled instruments with appropriate increments
• 3 describing how to use rounding up or down when reading scaled instruments, and the effect of the scale size on the accuracy of the measurement
• 4 constructing tables or graphic organisers to record observations

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