AC9SFI01 – Foundation Science: Questioning and predicting

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.

Elaborations

• 1 posing questions based on experiences, such as: ‘What part of a plant is broccoli?’ or ‘How high do balls bounce?’
• 2 posing questions about everyday objects and the materials that they may be made of
• 3 making predictions before field work, such as which plants and animals they may observe in the school grounds
• 4 making predictions about how an unusually shaped object such as an egg or a hexagonal block might move down a slope

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