Year One

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

Unit One Title: The Senses

Through Line: Science

Learning Area/s: Physical & Chemical Sciences

Capability:

Content:

Science Content Descriptors – Chemical Sciences

Science as a human endeavour

• People use science in their daily lives

Physical sciences

• Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed

Chemical sciences

• Objects are made of materials that have observable properties
• Everyday materials can be physically changed or combined with other materials in a variety of ways for particular purposes

Science Content Descriptors – Science Inquiry Skills

Questioning and predicting

• Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events

Planning and conducting

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

Recording and processing

• Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations
• Use a range of methods, including drawings and provided tables, to sort information

Analysing and evaluating

• Compare observations and predictions with those of others

Communicating

• Represent and communicate observations and ideas about changes in objects and events in a variety of ways

Achievement Standards:

By the end of Level 2:

Science - Science Understanding

• Describes examples of how people use science in their daily lives.
• Describes the properties, behaviour, uses and the effects of interacting with familiar materials and objects.
• Identifies and describes the changes to objects, materials, resources in their local environment.
• Discusses how light and sound can be produced and sensed.

Science – Science Inquiry Skills

• Poses and responds to questions about familiar objects and events and predicts outcomes of investigations.
• Uses their senses to explore the world around them.
• Records informal measurements to make and compare observations.
• Records, sorts and represents their observations.
• Communicates their ideas to others.

Unit One Title: The Senses

Through Line: Science

All Mixed Up

Themes: Students develop their understanding of different objects, and how they are made of materials that have observable properties. They learn to consider theses objects and materials related to sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. Through scientific inquiry, students investigate how different materials can be changed or combined with other materials in a variety of ways, including by mixing, and learn to use their senses to investigate these changes.

Questions:

What are the human senses?

Where does light come from? How can light be produced?

Where does sound come from? How can it sound be produced?

What happens to some materials when you mix, or combine them?

How do they change?

Why do we mix different materials?

How can we record and present our observations?

Key Understandings:

How people use science in their daily lives.

Observable properties of objects and materials related to sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.

How materials can be physically changed or combined (mixing) with other materials in a variety of ways for particular purposes.

How light and sound are produced by a range of sources.

Posing scientific questions.

The recording, sorting and representation of their observations.

Time Allocation:

7 – 8 Weeks (Approximately 165 minutes per week)