AC9S4I05 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.

compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions

Elaborations

• 1 identifying instances during investigations where elements may have been changed in error, resulting in an unfair test
• 2 comparing findings of water use surveys and discussing differences between home and school, or between each other’s homes
• 3 comparing designed solutions, such as toys, lunchboxes or structures, to determine fitness for purpose of selected materials
• 4 comparing findings from investigations with peers and asking questions about factors that may have led to any differences in findings
• 5 identifying unexpected findings and posing questions for further investigation
• 6 drawing conclusions that reflect their data and information

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