AC9S5U01
Official content description
examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats
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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 understanding progression either side of AC9S5U01
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Taught before · 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
Builds towards · Year 6
- AC9S6U01investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions
- AC9S6U02describe the movement of Earth and other planets relative to the sun and model how Earth’s tilt, rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun relate to cyclic observable phenomena, including variable day and night length
- AC9S6U03investigate the transfer and transformation of energy in electrical circuits, including the role of circuit components, insulators and conductors
Other Year 5 Science understanding codes
- AC9S5U02describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface
- AC9S5U03identify sources of light, recognise that light travels in a straight path and describe how shadows are formed and light can be reflected and refracted
- AC9S5U04explain observable properties of solids, liquids and gases by modelling the motion and arrangement of particles
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