AC9S5I03 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.

use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 exploring which equipment gives the most reasonable precision for the measurements of data required in the investigation
• 2 exploring the precision of measurements of different equipment such as a cup compared with a measuring jug and discussing why precision is important in measurement
• 3 recording data using standard units, such as grams, second and metre, and developing the use of standard prefixes for metric units such as kilo- and milli-
• 4 recording data in tables and diagrams or electronically as digital images and spreadsheets

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