SCIENCE-+0+FOUNDATION

= FOUNDATION SCIENCE =
 * ** SCIENCE STRANDS ** || ** SCIENCE SUB-STRANDS **  || ** ELEMENT **  || ** ELABORATION **  || ** GENERAL CAPABILITIES **  || ** CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES **  ||
 * Science Understanding || Biological sciences || Living things have basic needs, including food and water (ACSSU002) || * identifying the needs of humans such as warmth, food and water, using students’ own experiences
 * recognising the needs of living things in a range of situations such as pets at home, plants in the garden or plants and animals in bushland
 * comparing the needs of plants and animals || Critical and creative thinking || Sustainability ||
 * ^  || Chemical sciences || Objects are made of materials that have observable properties (ACSSU003) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sorting and grouping materials on the basis of observable properties such as colour, texture and flexibility
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">thinking about how the materials used in buildings and shelters are suited to the local environment
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating different forms of clothing used for different activities
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">comparing the traditional materials used for clothing from around the world ||  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Earth and space sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Daily and seasonal changes in our environment, including the weather, affect everyday life (ACSSU004) || *
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">linking the changes in the daily weather to the way we modify our behaviour and dress for different conditions, including examples from different cultures
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how changes in the weather might affect animals such as pets, animals that hibernate, or migratory animals
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">learning how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander concepts of time and weather patterns explain how things happen in the world around them || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Intercultural understanding, Personal and social competence || <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;">Physical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The way objects move depends on a variety of factors, including their size and shape (ACSSU005) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">observing the way different shaped objects such as balls, blocks and tubes move
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">comparing the way different sized, but similar shaped, objects such as tennis balls, golf balls, marbles and basketballs roll and bounce
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">observing how the movement of different living things depends on their size and shape || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 exploring and observing the world using the senses (ACSHE013) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that observation is an important part of exploring and investigating the things and places around us
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sharing observations with others and communicating their experiences
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring and observing using hearing, smell, touch, seeing and taste || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, 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;">Questioning and predicting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Respond to questions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS014) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering questions relating to the home and school and objects used in everyday life || <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;">Planning and conducting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore and make observations by using the senses (ACSIS011) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell so that students can gather information about the world around them || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy ||   ||
 * ^  || <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;">Engage in discussions about observations and use methods such as drawing to represent ideas (ACSIS233) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">taking part in informal and guided discussions relating to students ‘observations
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using drawings to represent observations and ideas and discussing their representations with others || <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;">Share observations and ideas (ACSIS012) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">working in groups to describe what students have done and what they have found out
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">communicating ideas through role play and drawing || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy, Personal and social competence ||  ||