AC9SFH01 Foundation Science

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

explore the ways people make and use observations and questions to learn about the natural world

Elaborations

• 1 using their senses to make observations and exploring how scientists use their senses as well as equipment to make observations
• 2 viewing examples of observations such as rock paintings, bark drawings, age-appropriate written reports, labelled drawings or photographs to explore ways they can make and record observations
• 3 exploring how First Nations Australians gain knowledge about the land and its vital resources, such as water and food, through observation
• 4 interacting with stories or documentaries about scientists such as Dame Jane Goodall or Sir Joseph Banks and noticing the ways they make their observations such as through drawings, collections, sound recordings and photography and how they ask questions about what they think they will observe and find
• 5 watching an age-appropriate documentary; noticing how people including scientists, engineers, naturalists or citizen scientists ask questions; and posing their own questions

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