Year 3 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Science Year 3

By the end of Year 3, students use their understanding of the movement of Earth, materials and the behaviour of heat to suggest explanations for everyday observations. They group living things based on observable features and distinguish them from non-living …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

ACSSU044

Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACSSU044

exploring differences between living, once living and products of living things

Elaboration (3) | ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACSSU044

sorting living and non-living things based on characteristics

Elaboration (2) | ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACSSU044

recognising the range of different living things

Elaboration (1) | ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACSSU044

recognising characteristics of living things such as growing, moving, sensitivity and reproducing

Elaboration | ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (5) ACSSU044

recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ use of observable features to group living things (OI.2, OI.3, OI.5)

Elaboration (5) | ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACSIS060

consulting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ representations of living things as evidenced and communicated through formal and informal sharing of information

Elaboration (3) | ACSIS060 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (4) ACSSU044

investigating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ systems of classifying living things and how these systems differ from those used by contemporary science (OI.2, OI.3, OI.5)

Elaboration (4) | ACSSU044 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum