This unit of work introduces the science of sound to early years students.
It outlines explicit practices and approaches that support inquiry-based learning for early year students within the context of exploring sound and hearing.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S2U02 (Year 2)
This online teaching resource helps teach young students about forces.
The resource discusses students' understandings of forces and motion (i.e., pushes and pulls) and also details learning tasks that will engage students when investigating these concepts.
There are also direct references to academic research on science education for younger primary students.
New Australian Curriculum Code: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)
This online resource is a game that simulates an Australian garden.
The resource is an interactive game that allows users to investigate the ecology of an average Australian garden.
Students can explore, find, collect, read about and classify a range of creatures commonly found in an Australian garden, including: crickets, wasps, slaters, ants, and dragonflies. In all there are 24 creatures to find.
This video by the ABC discusses the germination of seeds.
It that describes and explains the ways in which some seeds develop and grow into plants.
The associated web page includes the transcript of the audio and provides helpful guidance for teachers with a set of sound discussion questions to pose to students at each of the following times:
This video would support student learning for Year 4 students being taught these concepts.
This video by the ABC investigates the echidna.
It that can be used to support younger students' understandings of the life cycle and the development of an echidna from birth to adulthood.
This unit of work introduces students to the different states of matter.
The resource details ways of supporting and engaging Year 5 students when learning about the states of matter and the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
This inquiry-based teaching unit provides advice and outlines tasks and activities that are intended to engage students when investigating the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
It includes 7 lesson plans, teacher background information and student worksheets that support its implementation.
This unit of work introduces students to the properties of different materials.
The resource details ways of supporting and engaging Foundation Year students when learning about the properties of different materials.
This inquiry-based unit outlines tasks and activities that promote the use of the students' senses when exploring, describing, comparing, naming and classifying a range of materials.
It includes 6 lesson plans, teacher background information and student worksheets that support its implementation.
This online resource supports Year 1 students learning about schoolyard creatures.
The resource details ways of engaging and supporting Year 1 students in their learning about the features, behaviours and habitats of some schoolyard creatures.
The animals covered in this resource are mainly earthworms, snails and ants.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9SFU01 (Foundation), AC9S1U01 (Year 1)
This downloadable document deals with composting in schools.
The document ties in the subject of composting in schools with different aspects of the Australian Curriculum: Science
The resource also gives teacher background information and outlines structured activities/lessons as well as listing many related websites, including video links, that would support such activities.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9SFU03 (Foundation), AC9S2U03 (Year 2)
This online resource looks at plastics and their future use in Australia.
The resource provides information on the current status and future use of plastics and examines the need for a new source of plastics that reduces the pressure on demand for fossil fuels in their production and the impact of this use of fossil fuels on the environment.
A new range of plastics known as bioplastics are introduced and detailed information about their origins and their differing abilities to decompose safely in the environment is provided.
