SCIENCE-+3

= YEAR 3 SCIENCE =


 * ** SCIENCE STRANDS ** || ** SCIENCE SUB-STRANDS **  || ** ELEMENT **  || * ** ELABORATION ** || ** GENERAL CAPABILITIES **  || ** CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES **  ||
 * Science Understanding || Biological sciences || Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things (ACSSU044) || * recognising characteristics of living things such as growing, moving, sensitivity and reproducing
 * recognising the range of different living things sorting living and non-living things based on characteristics
 * exploring differences between living, once living and products of living things || Critical and creative thinking ||  ||
 * ^  || Chemical sciences || A change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing heat (ACSSU046) || * investigating how liquids and solids respond to changes in temperature, for example water changing to ice, or melting chocolate
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring how changes from solid to liquid and liquid to solid can help us recycle materials
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">predicting the effect of heat on different materials || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking || <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;">Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day (ACSSU048) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising the sun as a source of light constructing sundials and investigating how they work
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describing timescales for the rotation of the Earth
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">modelling the relative sizes and movement of the sun, Earth and moon ||  ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Physical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another (ACSSU049) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describing how heat can be produced such as through friction or motion, electricity or chemically (burning)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">identifying changes that occur in everyday situations due to heating and cooling
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring how heat can be transferred through conduction
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that we can feel heat and measure its effects using a thermometer || <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 making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE050) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">making predictions about change and events in our environment
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">researching how knowledge of astronomy has been used by some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how posing questions helps us plan for the future || <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;">Aboriginal Torres Straight Is history and culture, 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;">Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE051) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how heating affects materials used in everyday life
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how science helps people such as nurses, doctors, dentists, mechanics and gardeners
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how materials including solids and liquids affect the environment in different ways deciding what characteristics make a material a pollutant
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s knowledge of the local natural environment, such as the characteristics of plants and animals || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ethical behaviour, 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; 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;">With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge (ACSIS053) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">choosing questions to investigate from a list of possibilities provided by the teacher
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering familiar situations in order to think of possible areas for investigation
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">working in groups to discuss things that might happen during an investigation || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Planning and conducting  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Suggest ways to plan and conduct investigations to find answers to questions (ACSIS054) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">working in groups, with teacher guidance, to test simple cause-and-effect relationships
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">carrying out class surveys to identify trends and patterns in data || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Safely use appropriate materials, tools or equipment to make and record observations, using formal measurements and digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS055) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering safety rules for equipment used
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recording measurements using familiar formal units and appropriate abbreviations, such as seconds (s), grams (g), centimetres (cm)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using a digital camera to record observations || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ethical behaviour, Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Processing and analysing data and information  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends (ACSIS057) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using tables to organise materials and objects based on observable properties
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">identifying and discussing numerical and visual patterns in data collected from students' own investigations and from secondary sources || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings (ACSIS215) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing how well predictions matched results from an investigation and sharing ideas about what was learnt || <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;">Evaluating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflect on the investigation, including whether a test was fair or not (ACSIS058) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describing experiences of carrying out investigations to the teacher, small group or whole class || <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;">Communicating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways such as diagrams, physical representations and simple reports (ACSIS060) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicating with other students carrying out similar investigations to share experiences and improve investigation skills
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using simple explanations and arguments, reports or graphical representations to communicate ideas to other students || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy ||  ||