AC9S5I04
Official content description
construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships
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What Year 5 Science students should achieve
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- They use language features that reflect their purpose and audience when communicating their ideas and findings.
- They construct representations to organise data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships.
- They relate the particulate arrangement of solids, liquids and gases to their observable properties.
- They use equipment to generate data with appropriate precision.
- By the end of Year 5 students explain how the form and behaviour of living things enables survival.
- They identify risks associated with investigations and key intercultural considerations when planning field work.
The Science inquiry progression either side of AC9S5I04
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Taught before · 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
Builds towards · Year 6
- AC9S6I01pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions
- AC9S6I02plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place
- AC9S6I03use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate
Other Year 5 Science inquiry codes
- AC9S5I01pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions
- AC9S5I02plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions, including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place
- AC9S5I03use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate
- AC9S5I05compare methods and findings with those of others, recognise possible sources of error, pose questions for further investigation and select evidence to draw reasoned conclusions
- AC9S5I06write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate
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