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K–6Science and Technology K–6 Syllabus (2024)

Implementation from 2027
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Stage 1

Investigations of changes provide knowledge and understanding
Living things change over time
  • Recognise that Loading  can be collected through Loading , testing and research, and that it can be represented as descriptions, diagrams, graphs, images and tables

  • Collect data about the variety of living things in a local Loading , group them and justify the groupings

  • Describe the changes in a plant as it grows using data and scientific models

  • Describe the changes in an animal as it goes through its life cycle using data and scientific models

  • Describe how Loading  use Knowledges of the life cycles of livings things

  • Examine the evidence for Loading  animals

Light and sound interact with materials in different ways
  • Recognise that light and sound can travel through air, water and some solids and are affected by those materials

  • Pose questions, test and describe how light can be reflected, refracted, dispersed or absorbed by materials

  • Describe how Loading , Loading , Loading  and reflective materials interact with light

  • Recognise that sound is created and carried by vibrations

  • Observe how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples use a range of materials and actions to create sound for specific purposes

  • Test how different materials and actions affect the volume and Loading  of sound

The human body’s sense organs detect its environment
  • Recognise that the human brain detects information about the surroundings using sense organs, and that it controls and coordinates body functions

  • Observe and describe the function and parts of the eye and the ear

  • Investigate how taste and smell provide information about the Loading 

  • Pose questions, test and describe textures to investigate the sense of touch

Forces can change the way objects move
  • Recognise that a force is a push or a pull that can make things either start moving, stop moving, change speed, direction or shape

  • Pose questions and test the effects of forces on an object's movement

  • Investigate how applied forces change the movement of traditional toys and tools used by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  • Test how frictional forces affect moving objects

  • Test how the force of magnetism affects objects

Planet Earth is our home
  • Observe and record daily Loading  to identify changes and patterns

  • Investigate how seasonal patterns influence the behaviour and appearance of living things

  • Describe the ways in which Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples use seasonal indicators

  • Observe and identify rocks in natural formations and those used in built structures

  • Manipulate different rocks and describe their texture, colour and grain or crystal size

The sky is our window to the Universe
  • Describe the visible features of the sky at night and in the day

  • Recognise that the Sun provides Earth with light energy and the Moon reflects light energy from the Sun

  • Recognise that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west

  • Model how the rotation of the Earth around its axis causes a repeating pattern of day and night

  • Record changes in shadow length at different times of the day to mark the passage of time

  • Observe the Moon over a Loading  and describe its change in appearance using Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary

  • Describe Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ connections to Sky Loading 

  • Examine cultural representations of the Sun, Moon and stars

Creating written texts supports understanding of Science and Technology
  • Use nouns, noun groups and verbs to create notes, annotations and labels to document observations

  • Use simple and compound sentences, flow charts and labelled diagrams to describe a process or function

  • Sequence simple and compound sentences, and use labelled diagrams and data to describe cause and effect

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