Aims Science
The Australian Curriculum: Science aims to ensure that students develop: an interest in science as a means of expanding their curiosity and willingness to explore, ask questions about and speculate on the changing world in which they live an understanding …
Aims | Science | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Science Year 6
By the end of Year 6, students compare and classify different types of observable changes to materials. They analyse requirements for the transfer of electricity and describe how energy can be transformed from one form to another when generating electricity. …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | Science | F-10 curriculum
ACSHE081
Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and reflects historical and cultural contributions
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACSHE081 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | Science | F-10 curriculum
ACSHE098
Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and reflects historical and cultural contributions
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACSHE098 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACSSU048
exploring how cultural stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples explain the cyclic phenomena involving sun, moon and stars and how those explanations differ from contemporary science understanding (OI.3, OI.5)
Elaboration (4) | ACSSU048 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACSSU078
researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ understanding of the night sky and its use for timekeeping purposes as evidenced in oral cultural records, petroglyphs, paintings and stone arrangements (OI.3, OI.5)
Elaboration (3) | ACSSU078 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACSSU096
researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ cultural stories that provide evidence of geological events (OI.3)
Elaboration (5) | ACSSU096 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACSSU115
researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' oral traditions and cultural recordings of solar and lunar eclipses and investigating similarities and differences with contemporary understandings of such phenomena (OI.3, OI.9)
Elaboration (5) | ACSSU115 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACSIS124
recognising that the solution of some questions and problems requires consideration of social, cultural, economic or moral aspects rather than or as well as scientific investigation
Elaboration (1) | ACSIS124 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACSIS125
collaborating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in planning scientific investigations, and seeking guidance regarding culturally sensitive locations during fieldwork
Elaboration (4) | ACSIS125 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACSIS139
recognising that the solution of some questions and problems requires consideration of social, cultural, economic or moral aspects rather than or as well as scientific investigation
Elaboration (1) | ACSIS139 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (6) ACSIS165
acknowledging cultural heritage protection Acts as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in planning field investigations
Elaboration (6) | ACSIS165 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACSIS206
acknowledging the need to critically analyse scientific literature for potential cultural bias towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Elaboration (3) | ACSIS206 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Science | F-10 curriculum