Year 4 Science — AC v9
All 12 content descriptions for Year 4 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)
- •They identify forces acting on objects and describe their effect.
- •They relate the uses of materials to their properties.
- •They identify solutions based on scientific explanations and describe the needs these meet.
- •They explain the role of data in science inquiry.
- •They identify key processes in the water cycle and describe how water cycles through the environment.
- •By the end of Year 4 students identify the roles of organisms in a habitat and construct food chains.
- •They plan investigations using planning scaffolds, identify key elements of fair tests and describe how they conduct investigations safely.
- •They use simple procedures to make accurate formal measurements.
- •They communicate ideas and findings for an identified audience and purpose, including using scientific vocabulary when appropriate.
- •They compare their findings with those of others, assess the fairness of their investigation, identify further questions for investigation and draw conclusions.
- •They construct representations to organise data and information and identify patterns and relationships.
- •Students pose questions to identify patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations.
- 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
- AC9S4I04construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organise data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns
- AC9S4I05compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions
- AC9S4I06write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate
- 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
- AC9S4U04examine the properties of natural and made materials including fibres, metals, glass and plastics and consider how these properties influence their use
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The Year 4 Science planning scaffold
A one-page planning sheet with the official achievement standard, every content description grouped by strand, and space for your assessment and week-by-week sequence. Print it and plan on paper, or use it as the skeleton for a unit.
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