SCIENCE-+4

= YEAR 4 SCIENCE =


 * ** SCIENCE STRANDS ** || ** SCIENCE SUB-STRANDS **  || ** ELEMENT **  || * ** ELABORATION ** || ** GENERAL CAPABILITIES **  || ** CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES **  ||
 * Science Understanding || Biological sciences  || Living things have life cycles (ACSSU072) || * making and recording observations of living things as they develop through their life cycles
 * describing the stages of life cycles of different living things such as insects, birds, frogs and flowering plants
 * comparing life cycles of animals and plants
 * recognising that environmental factors can affect life cycles such as fire and seed germination || Critical and creative thinking || Sustainability ||
 * ^  ||^   || Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating how plants provide shelter for animals
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating the roles of living things in a habitat, for instance producers, consumers or decomposers
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">observing and describing predator-prey relationships
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">predicting the effects when living things in feeding relationships are removed or die out in an area
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">recognising that interactions between living things may be competitive or mutually beneficial || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Chemical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties; These properties can influence their use (ACSSU074) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">describing a range of common materials, such as metals or plastics, and their uses
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating a particular property across a range of materials
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">selecting materials for uses based on their properties
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering how the properties of materials affect the management of waste or can lead to pollution ||  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Earth and space sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity (ACSSU075) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">collecting evidence of change from local landforms, rocks or fossils
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">exploring a local area that has changed as a result of natural processes, such as an eroded gully, sand dunes or river banks
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating the characteristics of soils
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering how different human activities cause erosion of the Earth’s surface
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering the effect of events such as floods and extreme weather on the landscape, both in Australia and in the Asia region || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Physical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from a distance (ACSSU076) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating the effect of forces on the behaviour of an object through actions such as throwing, dropping, bouncing and rolling
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">comparing the effect of friction between different surfaces, such as tyres and shoes on a range of surfaces
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">observing qualitatively how speed is affected by the size of a force ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px; text-align: center;">Science as a Human Endeavour || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Nature and development of science || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE061) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">exploring ways in which scientists gather evidence for their ideas and develop explanations
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering how scientific practices such as sorting, classification and estimation are used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in everyday life || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Aboriginal Torres Straight Is history and culture ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Use and influence of science || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE062) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">investigating how a range of people, such as clothing designers, builders or engineers use science to select appropriate materials for their work
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering methods of waste management and how they can affect the environment
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">exploring how science has contributed to a discussion about an issue such as loss of habitat for living things or how human activity has changed the local environment
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering how to minimise the effects of erosion caused by human activity || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Ethical behaviour || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px; text-align: center;">Science Inquiry Skills || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Questioning and predicting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge (ACSIS064) || *
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">choosing questions to investigate from a list of possibilities provided by the teacher
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering familiar situations in order to think of possible areas for investigation
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">working in groups to discuss things that might happen during an investigation || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px; text-align: center;">Planning and conducting  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Suggest ways to plan and conduct investigations to find answers to questions (ACSIS065) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">working in groups, with teacher guidance, to test simple cause-and-effect relationships
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">carrying out class surveys to identify trends and patterns in data || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Ethical behaviour, Literacy , Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Safely use appropriate materials, tools or equipment to make and record observations, using formal measurements and digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS066) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">considering safety rules for equipment used recording measurements using familiar formal units and
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">appropriate abbreviations, such as seconds (s), grams (g), centimetres (cm)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">using a digital camera to record observations || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Ethical behaviour, ICT, Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px; text-align: center;">Processing and analysing data and information  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends (ACSIS068) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">using tables to organise materials and objects based on observable properties
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">identifying and discussing numerical and visual patterns in data collected from students' own investigations and from other sources || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings (ACSIS216) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">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; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Numeracy ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Evaluating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Reflect on the investigation; including whether a test was fair or not (ACSIS069) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">describing experiences of carrying out investigations to the teacher, small group or whole class || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.33px;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Communicating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways such as diagrams, physical representations and simple reports (ACSIS071) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.66px;">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; font-size: 10.66px;">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; font-size: 9.33px;">Literacy, Numeracy ||  ||

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