The Lyrebird Word

Year Five/ Six

Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2020, and welcome your input:

Llewela Humphries (Class 56A) Llewela.Humphries@education.vic.gov.au 

Gary Monopoli (Class 56B) Gary.Monopoli@education.vic.gov.au

Hayley Oliver (Class 56C) Hayley.Oliver@education.vic.gov.au

Jessica Cameron (Class 56C) Jessica.Cameron@education.vic.gov.au 

Gary Monopoli
Jessica Cameron
Llewela Humphries
Gary Monopoli
Jessica Cameron
Llewela Humphries

An Overview of our Learning

 

Please see below an overview of the Inquiry Focus for Term Two, during Remote Learning. 

Unit One Title: The Solar System

Through Line: Our World & Beyond

Learning Area/s: Earth & Space Sciences/Geography

Capability: Ethical Capability

The Solar System – Unit One Content:

Science Content Descriptors

Earth and space sciences

  • Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun)

Science as a human endeavour

  • Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives

Science Content Descriptors – Earth and Space Sciences

Earth and space sciences

  • Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface

Ethical Capability Content Descriptors

Understanding of concepts

  • Discuss how ethical principles can be used as the basis for action, considering the influence of world views and philosophical thought on these principles
  • Examine how problems may contain more than one ethical issue

Decision making and actions

  • Discuss the role and significance of conscience and reasoning in ethical decision-making

Achievement Standards:

By the end of Level 6:

Science – Science Understanding

  • Uses models to describe the key features of our Solar System.

Science – Earth and Space Sciences

  • Explains how natural events cause rapid change to Earth’s surface.
  • Explains how scientific knowledge is used in decision-making and develops from many people’s contributions.

Ethical Capability

  • Explains different ways to respond to ethical problems and identifies issues related to these.
  • Identifies different ethical issues associated with a particular problem.
  • Identifies the basis of a range of ethical principles.
  • Explains the role and significance of conscience and reasoning in ethical decision-making. 

 

Unit One Title: The Solar System

Through Line: Our World & Beyond

The Solar System - Themes: Students investigate how Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun).

 

Questions:

What is Earth’s place in the system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun)?

How can people respond?

How can science inform personal and community decisions?

 

Time Allocation:

7 – 8 Weeks (Approximately 390 minutes per week)