AC9S5I01 Year 5 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions

Elaborations

• 1 posing questions that can be investigated scientifically, such as: ‘Do all animals which live in desert habitats have ways to survive without water?’
• 2 acknowledging and using information from First Nations Australians to guide the formulation of investigable questions about structural features and behaviours of living things
• 3 posing investigable questions about landscape features and how they were changed by weathering, erosion, transportation or deposition
• 4 asking questions and making predictions to test relationships, such as: ‘Will there be more erosion of steeper slopes? Will this organisation of mirrors enable me to see around corners? Are animals that camouflage well more likely to survive predation?’
• 5 making reasoned predictions about the habitat a plant or animal lives in or the observable effect of light interacting with an object

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