AC9S6I06 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.

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 constructing a scientific report to share findings, such as how plants responded to changes in physical conditions such as temperature or salinity, and using appropriate vocabulary, data representations, units and sentence structures
• 2 creating an imaginative text about a future in which humans live on other planets with differing day lengths, and how they manage the social implications of this, such as keeping track of time or calculating human ages
• 3 acknowledging and exploring First Nations Australians’ ways of representing and communicating understandings of the night sky and its use for timekeeping purposes through rock paintings, paintings and stone arrangements
• 4 designing a product that uses electrical circuits and performing a sales pitch to have the product mass produced
• 5 constructing a poster or slideshow comparing everyday examples of reversible and irreversible change

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