SCIENCE-+1

= YEAR 1 SCIENCE =


 * ** SCIENCE STRANDS ** || ** SCIENCE SUB-STRANDS **  || ** ELEMENT **  || * ** ELABORATION ** || ** GENERAL CAPABILITIES **  || ** CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES **  ||
 * Science Understanding || Biological sciences || Living things have a variety of external features (ACSSU017) || * recognising common features of animals such as head, legs and wings
 * describing the use of animal body parts for particular purposes such as moving and feeding
 * identifying common features of plants such as leaves and roots
 * describing the use of plant parts for particular purposes such as making food and obtaining water || Literacy, Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  || Biological sciences || Living things live in different places where their needs are met (ACSSU211) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring different habitats in the local environment such as the beach, bush and backyard
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that different living things live in different places such as land and water
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring what happens when habitats change and some living things can no longer have their needs met || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chemical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways (ACSSU018) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">predicting and comparing how the shapes of objects made from different materials can be physically changed through actions such as bending, stretching and twisting
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring how materials such as water, chocolate or play dough change when warmed or cooled || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Earth and space sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape (ACSSU019) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring the local environment to identify and describe natural, managed and constructed features
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recording short and longer term patterns of events that occur on Earth and in the sky, such as the appearance of the moon and stars at night, the weather and the seasons || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Numeracy || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Physical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed (ACSSU020) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising senses are used to learn about the world around us: our eyes to detect light, our ears to detect sound, and touch to feel vibrations
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">identifying the sun as a source of light
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that objects can be seen when light from sources is available to illuminate them
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring different ways to produce sound using familiar objects and actions such as striking, blowing, scraping and shaking
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">comparing sounds made by musical instruments using characteristics such as loudness, pitch and actions used to make the sound || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Science as a Human Endeavour || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nature and development of science || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science involves asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE021) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">posing questions about events and features of the local environment that are of interest and affect students’ lives
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that descriptions of what we observe are used by people to help identify change
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing why some plants only grow in certain areas || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use and influence of science || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE022) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how science is used in activities such as cooking, fishing, transport, sport, medicine and caring for plants and animals
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering that technologies used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people require an understanding of how materials can be used to make tools and weapons, musical instruments, clothing, cosmetics and artworks
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring how musical instruments can be used to produce different sounds
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">comparing how different light sources are used in daily life identifying ways that science knowledge is used in the care of the local environment such as animal habitats, and
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">suggesting changes to parks and gardens to better meet the needs of native animals || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aboriginal Torres Straight Is history and culture, Sustainability ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science Inquiry Skills || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Questioning and predicting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS024) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using the senses to explore the local environment to pose interesting questions, make inferences and predictions
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">thinking about “What will happen if...?” type questions about everyday objects and events || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Science Inquiry Skills || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Planning and conducting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participate in different types of guided investigations to explore and answer questions, such as manipulating materials, testing ideas, and accessing information sources (ACSIS025) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">manipulating objects and materials and making observations of the results
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">researching with the use of simple information sources sorting objects and events based on easily observable characteristics || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Planning and conducting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations, with the assistance of digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS026) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations, with the assistance of digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS026)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elaborations using units that are familiar to students from home and school, such as cups (cooking), hand spans (length) and walking paces (distance) || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Processing and analysing data and information || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables (ACSIS027) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using simple column graphs (bar graphs) with guidance from the teacher to record gathered information
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using matching activities, including identifying similar things, odd-one-out and opposites || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy, Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Processing and analysing data and information || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Through discussion, compare observations with predictions (ACSIS212) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">comparing and discussing, with guidance, whether observations were expected || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compare observations with those of others (ACSIS213) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing observations with other students to see similarities and differences in results || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways such as oral and written language, drawing and role play (ACSIS029) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing with others what was discovered from an investigation
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">presenting ideas to other students, both one-to-one and in small groups || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||