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 |
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The Concept of Discovery
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider the concept of Discovery. |
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Building with Aluminium Foil
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of aluminium foil as they build a boat for their billy goats. |
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Experimenting with Rolling
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will experiment with rolling as they test which material makes the best ball. |
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Paper Corrugations
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of paper as they build a paper and cardboard bridge. |
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Decorating Bags
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of fabric as they decorate a bag. |
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Immersion
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will make predictions about the size and shape of materials and then test their predictions. |
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Making Play Dough
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about mixing ingredients as they make play dough. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Good Rubbish Or Bad Rubbish
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about good and bad rubbish as they analyse the rubbish from their lunch. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Writing About Senses
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will practise their writing skills as they use words that they used in a previous task. |
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Introducing The Unit
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence. |