Working Scientifically challenges students to imagine and pose questions, develop processes that can be used to solve problems and, explain observations and phenomena. These scientific processes are informed by the unexpected. An unexpected result, or no observable change, does not necessarily indicate that an investigation was unsuccessful, but rather can be used to direct further questioning and scientific investigation. An investigation is a scientific process of answering a question, exploring an idea or solving a problem that includes practical activities, such as planning a course of action using fair testing and replication, collection and interpretation of data, reaching a conclusion and communicating findings. Working Scientifically Skills: questioning and predicting planning and conducting investigations processing and analysing data communicating © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2017 Stage Outcome 2012 Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus Outcome 2017 Science and Technology K-6 What is 2012 2017 Syllabus different? Early Ste-4WS explores their immediate surroundings by questioning, STe-1WS-S observes, questions and collects data to stage 1 observing using their sense and communicating to share their communicate ideas observations and ideas Stage 1 St1-4WS investigates questions and predictions by collecting and ST1-1WS-S observes, questions and collects data to recoding data, sharing and reflecting on their experiences and communicate ideas comparing what they and others know Stage 2 St2-4WS investigates their questions and predictions by analysing ST2-1WS-S questions, plans and conducts scientific collected data suggesting explanations for their finds and investigations, collects and summarises data and communicating and reflecting on the processes undertaken communicates using scientific representations Stage 3 St3-4WS investigates by posing questions, including testable questions, ST3-1WS-S plans and conducts scientific investigations to making predictions and gathering data to draw answer testable questions, and collects and conclusions and develop explanations summarises data to communicate conclusions
Working Scientifically challenges students to imagine and pose questions, develop processes that can be used to solve problems and, explain observations and phenomena. These scientific processes are informed by the unexpected. An unexpected result, or no observable change, does not necessarily indicate that an investigation was unsuccessful, but rather can be used to direct further questioning and scientific investigation. An investigation is a scientific process of answering a question, exploring an idea or solving a problem that includes practical activities, such as planning a course of action using fair testing and replication, collection and interpretation of data, reaching a conclusion and communicating findings. Working Scientifically Skills: questioning and predicting planning and conducting investigations processing and analysing data communicating © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2017 Stage Outcome 2012 2012 Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus Outcome 2017 2017 Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus What is different? Early stage 1 Ste-4WS explores their immediate surroundings by questioning, observing using their sense and communicating to share their observations and ideas STe-1WS-S observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas Stage 1 St1-4WS investigates questions and predictions by collecting and recoding data, sharing and reflecting on their experiences and comparing what they and others know ST1-1WS-S observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas Stage 2 St2-4WS investigates their questions and predictions by analysing collected data suggesting explanations for their finds and communicating and reflecting on the processes undertaken ST2-1WS-S questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations Stage 3 St3-4WS investigates by posing questions, including testable questions, making predictions and gathering data to draw conclusions and develop explanations ST3-1WS-S plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions
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