Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Inquiry Skills / Planning and conducting

Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (VCSIS051)

The Bridge and Beyond Discovery Preview Unit

The Concept of Discovery · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider the concept of Discovery.
Building with Aluminium Foil · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of aluminium foil as they build a boat for their billy goats.
Experimenting with Rolling · Learning Opportunities
Your students will experiment with rolling as they test which material makes the best ball.
Paper Corrugations · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of paper as they build a paper and cardboard bridge.
Decorating Bags · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of fabric as they decorate a bag.
Immersion · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will make predictions about the size and shape of materials and then test their predictions.
Making Play Dough · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about mixing ingredients as they make play dough.
Modelling a Goat · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of modelling clay or similar as they create a model of a billy goat.

Our Sustainable World Sustainability Preview Unit

Observing And Measuring Changes: Week 1 · Learning Opportunities
Your students will act and think like scientists as they observe and measure changes in the vegetables growing in their classroom.
Good Rubbish Or Bad Rubbish · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about good and bad rubbish as they analyse the rubbish from their lunch.
Observing And Measuring Changes: Week 6 · Demonstration of Understanding
Your students will act and think like scientists as they observe and measure changes in the vegetables growing in their classroom.
Sensing Our Environment · Learning Opportunities
Your students will practise using all of their senses to learn about their environment.

The Changing World Change Preview Unit

Writing About Senses · Learning Opportunities
Your students will practise their writing skills as they use words that they used in a previous task.
Introducing The Unit · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.