AC9S1U03
Official content description
describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects’ motion and shape
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What Year 1 Science students should achieve
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- They follow safe procedures to make and record observations.
- With guidance, they compare observations with predictions and identify further questions.
- They describe situations where they use science in their daily lives and identify examples of people making scientific predictions.
- They use provided tables and organisers to sort and order data and information and, with guidance, represent patterns.
- By the end of Year 1 students identify how living things meet their needs in the places they live.
- They describe how different pushes and pulls change the motion and shape of objects.
The Science understanding progression either side of AC9S1U03
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Taught before · Foundation
- AC9SFU01observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features
- AC9SFU02describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement
- AC9SFU03recognise that objects can be composed of different materials and describe the observable properties of those materials
Builds towards · Year 2
- AC9S2U01recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky
- AC9S2U02explore different actions to make sounds and how to make a variety of sounds, and recognise that sound energy causes objects to vibrate
- AC9S2U03recognise that materials can be changed physically without changing their material composition and explore the effect of different actions on materials including bending, twisting, stretching and breaking into smaller pieces
Other Year 1 Science understanding codes
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