AC9S5I03
Year 5
Science
AC9S5I03 | Year 5 Science: Planning and conducting
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate
Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Planning and conducting
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 5 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring which equipment gives the most reasonable precision for the measurements of data required in the investigation
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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-
- • Elaboration recording data in tables and diagrams or electronically as digital images and spreadsheets
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