Science inquiry
- Plus Plan
Give Me Some Shade
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how much shade they provide.
- Plus Plan
What Works Best?
A 60 minute lesson in which students develop an understanding of the suitability of certain materials for different purposes.
- Plus Plan
Diving Into Description
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore the properties of materials and develop vocabulary to describe them.
- Plus Plan
Changes I Can See - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives
- Plus Plan
The Nighttime Sky
- Plus Plan
Do You See What I See?
- Plus Plan
Slime - Solid, Liquid or Gas?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognise that not all substances can be easily classified on the basis of their observable properties.
- Plus Plan
Going, Going, Gone!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognise that substances exist in different states depending on the temperature.
- Plus Plan
Line Up the Light
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate if light travels in a straight line.
- Plus Plan
Shine Bright, Electric Light!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how changes to electrical circuits affect their components.
- Plus Plan
Feeling the Flow - Electrical Conductors and Insulators
A 60 minute lesson in which students will classify objects as conductors or insulators of electricity.
- Plus Plan
Brilliant Bending
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials can bend.
- Plus Plan
Terrific Twisting
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials can be twisted.
- Plus Plan
Handy Heating
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials change when they are heated.
- Plus Plan
Thermal Insulators - Keeping Out the Heat
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate which materials are the best thermal insulators.
- Plus Plan
The Daytime Sky
- Plus Plan
What Will Change?
- Plus Plan
Changes, Changes Everywhere!
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how living things grow and change.
- Plus Plan
Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
- Plus Plan
Let's Think Like a Scientist
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of the procedures scientists use and design one segment of an experiment.
- Plus Plan
Living Things Need Food
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how plants and animals get energy to survive.
- Plus Plan
Shelter Building Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how a shelter can protect a living thing.
- Plus Plan
Habitat Diorama - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of the four basic needs for living things.
- Plus Plan
Making a Mini Water Cycle Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how the water cycle works.
- Plus Plan
Creating Oxygen Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how plants make oxygen.
- Plus Plan
Making Monsters
A 60 minute lesson in which students design and create a 3D monster using objects made from materials with different properties.
- Plus Plan
Chemical Sciences: Clever Changes – Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the physical changes of materials and how properties change when materials stretch, bend, twist, heat or cool. Students predict how materials will vary and whether they can be returned to their original state.
- Plus Plan
Changes I Can See!
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores how and why changes occur in the sky and landscape, and develops students' ability to describe these changes in their local environment.
- Plus Plan
Facts of the Matter
This Chemical Sciences unit explores the concept that solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways.
- Plus Plan
Material World Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates natural and processed materials. Demonstrations and experimental procedures are explored with particular attention given to the scientific method.
- Plus Plan
Properties of Materials Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the observable properties of materials. Descriptive vocabulary is explored as well as the suitability of materials for different purposes.
- Plus Plan
Our Place in Space - Unit Plan
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores the concept that Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun).