AC9SFI05 – Foundation Science: Communicating

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 sharing questions, making predictions and describing observations to others through discussions and circle groups
• 2 recounting stories and posing questions about their own experiences learning about the natural world, such as when gardening or observing plants and animals at home or visits to conservation areas or centres
• 3 acknowledging and exploring First Nations Australians’ ways of communicating information about anatomical features of plants and animals
• 4 showing or describing how objects can be moved in different ways and responding to questions
• 5 role-playing or showing how people use different equipment to make scientific observations
• 6 representing external features of animals and plants using a range of materials such as blocks, modelling clay, craft materials or paper
• 7 communicating questions, predictions and observations using posters, collages, digital displays, drawings or storyboards

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