AC9SFU02 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.

describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement

Elaborations

• 1 observing how toys move, and grouping them based on their movement
• 2 observing and describing ways different and unusually shaped objects such as blocks, tubes or eggs move when rolled down a slope
• 3 comparing the way different-sized, similar-shaped objects such as tennis balls, golf balls, marbles or basketballs roll and bounce
• 4 exploring how the material a ball is made from affects the way it moves, such as plastic, foam, cloth or rubber balls on a surface
• 5 exploring how the size and shape of traditional instructive toys used by First Nations Australians influence their movement

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