AC9S6I01 Year 6 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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 investigable questions to identify patterns, such as: ‘What type of material is the best conductor and what is the best insulator?’
• 2 posing investigable questions to test relationships, such as: ‘Will more salt dissolve in warm water than in cold water?’
• 3 discussing and refining questions to enable scientific investigation
• 4 making reasoned predictions about the physical conditions that will result in the largest mould colonies growing on bread
• 5 making reasoned predictions about electrical circuit function based on a picture or diagram of a circuit

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