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SCIENCE Lesson Plans Overview

General Capabilities
Literacy Numeracy Information and Critical and Creative Thinking Personal and Social Capability Ethical Behaviour Intercultural
Literacy involves Numeracy involves Communication Technology Critical and creative thinking are This involves students in a range Ethical behaviour involves Understanding
students in listening to, students in (ICT) capability integral to activities that require of practices including recognising students in building a strong This involves students
reading, viewing, recognising and This involves students in students to think broadly and and regulating emotions, personal and socially oriented in learning about and
speaking, writing and understanding the role learning to make the most of the deeply using skills, behaviours developing empathy for and ethical outlook that helps them engaging with diverse
creating oral, print, of mathematics in the technologies available to them, and dispositions such as reason, understanding of others, to manage context, conflict cultures in ways that
visual and digital texts, world and having the adapting to new ways of doing logic, resourcefulness, establishing positive relationships, and uncertainty, and to recognise
and using and modifying dispositions and things as technologies evolve imagination and innovation in all making responsible decisions, develop an awareness of the commonalities and
language for different capacities to use and limiting the risks to learning areas at school and in working effectively in teams and influence that their values and differences, create
purposes in a range of mathematical themselves and others in a the lives beyond school. handling challenging situations behaviour have on others. connections with others
contexts. knowledge and skills digital environment. constructively. and cultivate mutual
purposefully. respect.

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
cultures. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
priority provides opportunities for all learners to
deepen their knowledge of Australia by engaging
with the worlds oldest continuous living cultures.
This knowledge and understanding will enrich
their ability to participate positively in the ongoing
development of Australia.
Asia and Australias engagement with Asia
This will ensure that students learn about and recognise the diversity
within and between the countries of the Asia region. They will develop
knowledge and understanding of Asian societies, cultures, beliefs and
environments, and the connections between the peoples of Asia,
Australia, and the rest of the world. Asia literacy provides students with
the skills to communicate and engage with the peoples of Asia so they
can effectively live, work and learn in the region.
Sustainability
This develops the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary for people to act
in ways that contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. It enables individuals and
communities to reflect on ways of interpreting and engaging with the world.
Sustainability education is futures-oriented, focusing on protecting environments and
creating a more ecologically and socially just world through informed action. Actions that
support more sustainable patterns of living require consideration of environmental,
social, cultural and economic systems and their interdependence.

Science Understanding
Biological Sciences: Chemical Sciences: Physical Sciences: Earth Sciences:
Year 3 Living things can be grouped on the basis of Year 3 A change of state between solid and liquid Year 3 Heat can be produced in many ways and can Year 3 Earths rotation on its axis causes
observable features and can be distinguished from non- can be caused by adding or removing heat move from one object to another (ACSSU049) regular changes, including night and day
living things (ACSSU044) (ACSSU046) Year 4 Forces can be exerted by one object on (ACSSU048)
Year 4 Living things have life cycles (ACSSU072) Living Year 4 Natural and processed materials have a another through direct contact or from a distance Year 4 Earths surface changes over time as a
things, including plants and animals, depend on each range of physical properties; These properties can (ACSSU076) result of natural processes and human activity
other and the environment to survive (ACSSU072) influence their use (ACSSU074) Year 5 Light from a source forms shadows and can be (ACSSU075)
Year 5 Living things have structural features and Year5 Solids, liquids and gases have different absorbed, reflected and refracted (ACSSU080) Year 5 The Earth is part of a system of planets
adaptations that help them to survive in their observable properties and behave in different ways Year 6 Electrical circuits provide a means of orbiting around a star (the sun) (ACSSU078)
environment (ACSSU043) (ACSSU077) transferring and transforming electricity (ACSSU097) Year 6 Sudden geological changes or extreme
Year 6 The growth and survival of living things are Year 6 Changes to materials can be reversible, such Energy from a variety of sources can be used to weather conditions can affect Earths surface
affected by the physical conditions of their environment as melting, freezing, evaporating; or irreversible, generate electricity (ACSSU219) (ACSSU096)
(ACSSU094) such as burning and rusting (ACSSU095)
Science as a human endeavour Science Inquiry skills (these are to be mastered over 2 years)
Nature and development of Use & influence Questioning Planning and conducting: Processing and analysing data and Evaluating: Communicating:
science: Year 3,4 Science and Yr 3,4 Suggest ways to plan and conduct information: Yr 3,4 Reflect on Y 3,4 Represent and
Year 3,4 Science involves knowledge helps people to predicting: investigations to find answers to questions Yr 3,4 Use a range of methods the investigation, communicate ideas
making predictions & describing understand the effect of With guidance, (ACSIS065)Safely use appropriate materials, tools including tables & simple column including and findings in a
patterns and relationships their actions (ACSHE062) pose or equipment to make and record observations, graphs to represent data, to identify whether a test variety of ways such
(ACSHE050) Yr 5,6 Scientific questions to using formal measurements and digital patterns and trends. Compare results was fair or not as diagrams, physical
Year 5,6 Science involves understandings, clarify practical technologies as appropriate (ACSIS066) with predictions, suggesting possible
( ACSIS058) representations and
discoveries & inventions Yr 5,6 With guidance, plan investigation methods reasons for findings (ACSIS068)
testing predictions by gathering problems or Yr 5,6 Suggest simple reports
data and using evidence to are used to solve to answer questions or solve problems Yr 5,6 Construct and use a range of
problems that directly inform a improvements to (ACSIS071)
develop explanations of events (ACSIS086) representations, including tables &
affect peoples lives scientific graphs, to represent & describe the methods Yr 5,6 Communicate
and phenomena. Important
(ACSHE083) investigation,& Decide variable to be changed and measured in observations, patterns or relationships used to ideas, explanations
contributions to the fair tests & accurately observe, measure and
advancement of science have Scientific knowledge is predict record data, using digital technologies (ACSIS087) in data using digital technologies investigate a and processes in a
been made by people from a used to inform personal & findings Use equipment and materials safely, identifying (ACSIS090) Compare data and use as question or variety of ways,
range of cultures (ACSHE081) community decisions (ACSIS231) evidence for explanations (ACSIS218) solve a problem including multi-modal
potential risks (ACSIS088)
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(ACSHE217) (ACSIS091) texts (ACSIS093)
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Year Topic (1 term)
Strand Sub strand
SU Chemical Sciences:
SHE Nature and development of science:
SIS Planning and conducting:
Evaluating:
Lesson Engage: Mentally engages
1 students, captures interest, Able to
express what they know
Lesson Explore: Hands on activity, explore
2 the concept or skill. Make sense of the
concept or skill (this may take more
than 1 lesson and be combined with
explore)
Lesson Explain: Explanations are made on
3 the concept or skill. Explanation
follows experience.
Lesson Elaborate: Provides opportunities
4 to apply the concept or skill. Develops
a deeper understanding of the concept
or skill (this may include an
investigation)
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Term: 1, 2. 3 & 4
Code Year Content Descriptors Lessons
(ACSSU046) Year 3 A change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing heat
1,2,4,5
(ACSHE050) Year 3,4 Science involves making predictions & describing patterns and relationships
2,4
(ACSIS066) Yr 3,4 Suggest ways to plan and conduct investigations to find answers to questions (ACSIS065)Safely use
appropriate materials, tools or equipment to make and record observations, using formal measurements and digital
3,4
technologies as appropriate
(ACSIS058) Yr 3,4 Reflect on the investigation, including whether a test was fair or not
4,5
Learning Experiences
Major Content Focus:
The main focus for this lesson is to obtain students prior knowledge about heating and cooling. The
lesson conducted will also thinking about characteristics of liquids and solids.
In this lesson students will be working in teams to conduct in an inquiry that involves using heat to
change the matter of different dairy products. Groups will be focusing on different products. They
will be creating a poster and presenting their findings to the class at the end.
Students will be revising the previous experiment then focusing on the term matter to create a
presentation. This will be to show their understandings of atoms and the different characteristics
between solids and liquids.
This is an inquiry created by the students to investigate a question that involves a change in matter
when the temperature is cooled. Students need to work cooperatively to create an inquiry, predict
what is going to happen and then record their results effectively.
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Lesson Evaluate: Continue the
5 development of the understanding of
the skill and evaluate their learning.
Students reflect on previous lessons focusing on topics such as matter, solids, liquids, melting and
cooling. Students will use their journals effectively to record their knowledge while also displaying
the rest of the work around the room.

KLA Science Maths English History Geography Languages The Arts Business Civics Health D&T ICT
Outcomes
Abbreviations

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