SCIENCE-+6

= YEAR 6 SCIENCE = = ﻿ = = = measuring the effect of this change using familiar tools such as rulers, weighing scales and watches to measure objects and events in investigations developing the use of standard multipliers such as kilometres and millimetres || Critical and creative thinking ||  || = ﻿ =
 * ** SCIENCE STRANDS ** || ** SCIENCE SUB-STRANDS **  || ** ELEMENT **  || * ** ELABORATION ** || ** GENERAL CAPABILITIES **  || ** CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES **  ||
 * Science Understanding || Biological sciences || The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094) || * investigating how changing the physical conditions for plants impacts on their growth and survival such as salt water, use of fertilizers and soil types
 * observing the growth of fungi such as yeast and bread mould in different conditions
 * researching organisms that live in extreme environments such as Antarctica or a desert
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering the effects of physical conditions causing migration and hibernation || <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;">Chemical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Changes to materials can be reversible, such as melting, freezing, evaporating; or irreversible, such as burning and rusting (ACSSU095) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describing what happens when materials are mixed
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating the solubility of common materials in water
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating the change in state caused by heating and cooling of a familiar substance
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating irreversible changes such as rusting, burning and cooking
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring how reversible changes can be used to recycle 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;">Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface (ACSSU096) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating major geological events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Australia, the Asia region and throughout the world
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that earthquakes can cause tsunamis describing how people measure significant geological events
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring ways that scientific understanding can assist in natural disaster management to minimise both long- and short-term effects
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering the effect of drought on living and non-living aspects of the environment || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia, Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Physical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring and transforming electricity (ACSSU097) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising the need for a complete circuit to allow the flow of electricity
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating different electrical conductors and insulators
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring the features of electrical devices such as switches and light globes ||  ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Physical sciences || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Energy from a variety of sources can be used to generate electricity (ACSSU219) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how moving air and water can turn turbines to generate electricity
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating the use of solar panels considering whether an energy source is sustainable || <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; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Science as a Human Endeavour || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Nature and development of science  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena (ACSHE098) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how knowledge about the effects of using the Earth’s resources has changed over time
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describing how understanding of the causes and effects of major natural events has changed as new evidence has become available
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating the use of electricity, including predicting the effects of changes to electric circuits
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how gathering evidence helps scientists to predict the effect of major geological or climatic events || <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;">Important contributions to the advancement of science have been made by people from a range of cultures (ACSHE099) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how people from different cultures have used sustainable sources of energy, for example water and solar power
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exploring institutions and locations where contemporary Australian scientists conduct research on catastrophic natural events
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">learning how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, such as the medicinal and nutritional properties of Australian plants, is being used as part of the evidence base for scientific advances
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating the development of earthquake measurements from the Chinese invention of the seismograph in the second century || <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, Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia, Sustainability ||
 * ^  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Use and influence of science  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives (ACSHE100) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">researching the scientific work involved in global disaster alerts and communication, such as cyclone, earthquake and tsunami alerts
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how electrical energy is generated in Australia and around the world researching the use of methane generators in Indonesia
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how electricity and electrical appliances have changed the way some people live || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ethical behaviour, Intercultural understanding, Personal and social competence || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia , Sustainability ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions (ACSHE220) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how personal and community choices influence our use of sustainable sources of energy
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">investigating how understanding of catastrophic natural events helps in planning for their early detection and minimising their impact
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">recognising that science can inform choices about where people live and how they manage natural disasters
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering how guidelines help to ensure the safe use of electrical devices
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing the use of electricity and the conservation of sources of energy || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour , Personal and social competence || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be (ACSIS232) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing in groups possible situations to investigate or identify problems that relate to students’ lives
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">applying experience from similar situations in the past to predict what may happen in a new situation
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sharing ideas about what may happen in an investigation and why || <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;">With guidance, select appropriate investigation methods to answer questions or solve problems (ACSIS103) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">experiencing a range of ways of finding information and ideas, including internet research
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">considering different investigation methods, including experimental testing, field work and conducting surveys || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy , Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  || <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;">Decide which variable should be changed and measured in fair tests and accurately observe, measure and record data, using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS104) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing in groups how investigations can be made as fair as possible
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using the idea of an independent variable (note: this terminology does not need to be used at this stage) as something that is being investigated by changing it and
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using familiar units such as grams, seconds and metres and
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use equipment and materials safely, identifying potential risks (ACSIS105) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">discussing possible hazards involved in conducting investigations, and how these risks can be reduced || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, 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;">Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS107) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">identifying similarities and differences in qualitative data in order to group items or materials
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">describing simple cause-and-effect relationships as shown by trends in quantitative data || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT, Numeracy ||  ||
 * ^  ||^   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations (ACSIS221) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sharing ideas as to whether observations match predictions, and discussing possible reasons for predictions being incorrect || <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;">Evaluating || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Suggest improvements to the methods used to investigate a question or solve a problem (ACSIS108) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">working collaboratively to suggest improvements to the methods used || <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;">Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts (ACSIS110) || * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using labelled diagrams, including cross-sectional representations, to communicate ideas
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">using a variety of communication modes, such as reports, explanations, arguments, debates and procedural accounts, to communicate science ideas
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">understanding how models can be used to represent scientific ideas and constructing physical models to demonstrate an aspect of scientific understanding || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT, Literacy, Numeracy ||  ||