AC9S6U02
Official content description
describe 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
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What Year 6 Science students should achieve
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- They describe risks associated with investigations and key intercultural considerations when planning field work.
- Students plan safe, repeatable investigations to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions.
- By the end of Year 6 students explain how changes in physical conditions affect living things.
- They identify variables to be changed, measured and controlled.
- They describe how individuals and communities use scientific knowledge.
- They select and use language features effectively for their purpose and audience when communicating their ideas and findings.
The Science understanding progression either side of AC9S6U02
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Taught before · Year 5
- AC9S5U01examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats
- 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
Builds towards · Year 7
- AC9S7U01investigate the role of classification in ordering and organising the diversity of life on Earth and use and develop classification tools including dichotomous keys
- AC9S7U02use models, including food webs, to represent matter and energy flow in ecosystems and predict the impact of changing abiotic and biotic factors on populations
- AC9S7U03model cyclic changes in the relative positions of the Earth, sun and moon and explain how these cycles cause eclipses and influence predictable phenomena on Earth, including seasons and tides
Other Year 6 Science understanding codes
- AC9S6U01investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions
- AC9S6U03investigate the transfer and transformation of energy in electrical circuits, including the role of circuit components, insulators and conductors
- AC9S6U04compare reversible changes, including dissolving and changes of state, and irreversible changes, including cooking and rusting that produce new substances
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