Areas covered by the Australian Curriculum for science in year 6. Science / Year 6 / Science / Year 6 / Science / Year 6 / Science / Year 6 / Science / Year 6 / Science Science as a human Science as a Human Science Inquiry Skills Science Inquiry endeavour/ nature Endeavour / Use and / Questioning and Skills / Understanding / and development of influence of science. predicting. Communicating Earth and space science. Content description: Content description: Content sciences. Content description: Scientific With guidance, pose description: Content Science involves understandings, questions to clarify Communicate ideas, description: testing predictions by discoveries and practical problems or explanations and Sudden geological gathering data and inventions are used to inform a scientific processes in a variety changes or using evidence to solve problems that investigation, and of ways, including extreme weather develop explanations of directly affect peoples’ predict what the multi-modal texts. conditions can events and phenomena. lives. findings of an affect Earth’s investigation might be. surface. ACSHE098 ACSIS232 ACSHE100 ACSSU096 ACSIS110 - - Elaboration 1 Elaboration 1 Elaboration 1 Elaboration 1 - Elaboration 1- Describing how Researching the Refining questions to Discussing the best Investigating understanding of the scientific work involved enable scientific way to communicate geological events causes and effects of in global disaster alerts investigation science ideas and such as major natural events and communication, such what should be earthquakes, has changed as new as cyclone, earthquake considered when volcanic eruptions evidence has become and tsunami alerts. planning a text and tsunamis in available. Australia, the Asia region and throughout the world Elaboration 2 Elaboration 2 - Elaboration 2 - Elaborations 2- Considering how Asking questions to Using a variety of Recognising that gathering evidence understand the scope communication earthquakes can scientists to predict the or nature of a problem modes, such as cause tsunamis effect of major reports, explanations, geological or climatic arguments, debates events and procedural accounts, to communicate science ideas Elaboration 3 Elaboration 3 - Elaboration 3- Applying experience Using labelled Describing how from previous diagrams, including people measure investigations to cross-sectional significant predict the outcomes representations, to geological events of investigations in communicate ideas new contexts and processes within multi-modal texts Elaboration 4 Exploring ways that scientific understanding can assist in natural disaster management to minimise both long- and term effects
Areas covered by the Australian Curriculum for science in year 6. Science / Year 6 / Science Understanding / Earth and space sciences. Content description: Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface. ACSSU096 Science / Year 6 / Science as a human endeavour/ nature and development of science. Content description: Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena. ACSHE098 Science / Year 6 / Science as a Human Endeavour / Use and influence of science. Content description: Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives. ACSHE100 Science / Year 6 / Science Inquiry Skills / Questioning and predicting. Content description: With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be. ACSIS232 Science / Year 6 / Science Inquiry Skills / Communicating Content description: Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts. ACSIS110 Elaboration 1 Investigating geological events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Australia, the Asia region and throughout the world Elaboration 1 - Describing how understanding of the causes and effects of major natural events has changed as new evidence has become available. Elaboration 1 - Researching the scientific work involved in global disaster alerts and communication, such as cyclone, earthquake and tsunami alerts. Elaboration 1 - Refining questions to enable scientific investigation Elaboration 1- Discussing the best way to communicate science ideas and what should be considered when planning a text Elaboration 2 Recognising that earthquakes can cause tsunamis Elaboration 2 - Considering how gathering evidence scientists to predict the effect of major geological or climatic events Elaboration 2 - Asking questions to understand the scope or nature of a problem Elaborations 2- Using a variety of communication modes, such as reports, explanations, arguments, debates and procedural accounts, to communicate science ideas Elaboration 3 Describing how people measure significant geological events Elaboration 3 - Applying experience from previous investigations to predict the outcomes of investigations in new contexts Elaboration 3- Using labelled diagrams, including cross-sectional representations, to communicate ideas and processes within multi-modal texts Elaboration 4 Exploring ways that scientific understanding can assist in natural disaster management to minimise both long- and effects term