AC9S5I06 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.

write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 exploring how language features such as vocabulary and sentence structure help shape a text and give it meaning
• 2 acknowledging and exploring First Nations Australians’ ways of representing and communicating information about anatomical features
• 3 developing a digital presentation to share information about the structural features or behaviours of animals and plants in a particular habitat
• 4 constructing a persuasive text for local council to argue the use of an erosion mitigation strategy in a local area
• 5 co-authoring a scientific report on an investigation into the behaviours of light using appropriate vocabulary, data representations and sentence structures
• 6 exploring whether there is a ‘correct’ way of representing particles and creating an animation to teach other students about the particulate nature of matter

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