Year 3 Science — AC v9
All 12 content descriptions for Year 3 Science in the Australian Curriculum Version 9, grouped by strand — each one links to its own page, and TeachKoala can turn any of them into a complete lesson (your first is free).
Achievement standard (what coverage means)
- •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.
- •They use familiar classroom instruments to make measurements.
- •They compare their findings with those of others, explain how they kept their investigation fair, identify further questions and draw conclusions.
- •They communicate ideas and findings for an identified purpose, including using scientific vocabulary when appropriate.
- •They classify solids and liquids based on observable properties and describe how to cause a change of state.
- •They describe the observable properties of soils, rocks and minerals and describe their importance as resources.
- •They use scaffolds to plan safe investigations and fair tests.
- AC9S3I01pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
- AC9S3I02use 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
- 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
- AC9S3U01compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
- 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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The Year 3 Science planning scaffold
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