AC9S6I01 Year 6 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration posing investigable questions to identify patterns, such as: ‘What type of material is the best conductor and what is the best insulator?’
• • Elaboration posing investigable questions to test relationships, such as: ‘Will more salt dissolve in warm water than in cold water?’
• • Elaboration discussing and refining questions to enable scientific investigation
• • Elaboration making reasoned predictions about the physical conditions that will result in the largest mould colonies growing on bread
• • Elaboration making reasoned predictions about electrical circuit function based on a picture or diagram of a circuit