AC9SFI03 Foundation Science

Content descriptor represent observations in provided templates and identify patterns with guidance

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using provided tables or graphic organisers to sort images or models of plants and animals into groups based on external features
• • Elaboration collaborating to create a floor or wall display to link images or samples of materials to images of observed objects
• • Elaboration identifying common features of familiar groups of animals, such as fish, birds or reptiles
• • Elaboration identifying patterns of movement of objects, with guidance, such as that balls roll easily in a straight line when pushed, or toy cars move in certain ways because of their wheels
• • Elaboration identifying patterns in uses of everyday objects made of similar materials, such as wood, plastic, metal or glass