AC9S3I02
Official content description
use provided scaffolds to plan and conduct investigations to answer questions or test predictions, including identifying the elements of fair tests, and considering the safe use of materials and equipment
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What Year 3 Science students should achieve
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- By the end of Year 3 students classify and compare living and non-living things and different life cycles.
- Students pose questions to explore patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations.
- They identify sources of heat energy and examples of heat transfer and explain changes in the temperature of objects.
- They describe how people use data to develop explanations.
- They identify solutions that use scientific explanations.
- They organise data and information using provided scaffolds and identify patterns and relationships.
The Science inquiry progression either side of AC9S3I02
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Taught before · Year 2
- AC9S2I01pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences
- AC9S2I02suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions
- AC9S2I03make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate
Builds towards · Year 4
- AC9S4I01pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
- AC9S4I02use provided scaffolds to plan and conduct investigations to answer questions or test predictions, including identifying the elements of fair tests, and considering the safe use of materials and equipment
- AC9S4I03follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate
Other Year 3 Science inquiry codes
- AC9S3I01pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
- AC9S3I03follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate
- AC9S3I04construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organise data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns
- AC9S3I05compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions
- AC9S3I06write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate
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