AC9SFH01 Foundation Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using their senses to make observations and exploring how scientists use their senses as well as equipment to make observations
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration exploring how First Nations Australians gain knowledge about the land and its vital resources, such as water and food, through observation
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration watching an age-appropriate documentary; noticing how people including scientists, engineers, naturalists or citizen scientists ask questions; and posing their own questions