AC9S3U01
Official content description
compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
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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 understanding progression either side of AC9S3U01
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Taught before · 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
Builds towards · Year 4
- AC9S4U01explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships
- AC9S4U02identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation
- AC9S4U03identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects
Other Year 3 Science understanding codes
- AC9S3U02compare the observable properties of soils, rocks and minerals and investigate why they are important Earth resources
- AC9S3U03identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another
- AC9S3U04investigate the observable properties of solids and liquids and how adding or removing heat energy leads to a change of state
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