Year 5 Science — AC v9
All 12 content descriptions for Year 5 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 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.
- •They describe key processes that change Earth’s surface.
- •They identify variables to be changed and measured.
- •They describe examples of collaboration leading to advances in science, and scientific knowledge that has changed over time.
- •They identify sources of light and model the transfer of light to explain observed phenomena.
- •They compare their methods and findings to those of others, identify possible sources of error in their investigation, pose questions for further investigation and draw reasoned conclusions.
- •They identify examples where scientific knowledge informs the actions of individuals and communities.
- •Students plan safe investigations to identify patterns and relationships and make reasoned predictions.
- 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
- AC9S5I04construct 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
- 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
- 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
- AC9S5U04explain observable properties of solids, liquids and gases by modelling the motion and arrangement of particles
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The Year 5 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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