External evaluators ACIL Allen want to hear about your engagement with Primary Connections, Science Connections, Science by Doing and reSolve Maths.
This survey will ask you questions about:
The evaluation is examining the impact of all three programs, their effectiveness and the extent to which the resources contribute to improved science and/or maths teaching in Australia.
The survey has been extended to Friday 4 April 2025!
Take the surveyExplore new all-online primary science teaching sequences for the Australian Curriculum V9 as well as our classic AC V8.4 resources, plus embedded support for understanding key ideas and pedagogical practices.
Learn about what's new
Our new teaching sequences are designed from the ground up to be easily adapted for your students. You can use the step-by-step outlines as-is or adapt them using the built-in design advice, with confidence that your teaching is grounded in the latest research and fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9.
Students use their senses to explore the external features of plants and animals, and learn how to group plants and animals with similar characteristics. They apply this knowledge to design and make a digital or physical scientific model of a plant or animal.Â
Students identify daily and seasonal changes and describe ways these changes affect their everyday life. They explore this concept through the context of planning for a picnic or an open-air school-related event.Â
Students learn about the basic needs of plants and animals including humans. They apply this knowledge to design and build a physical or digital diorama of a plant or animal habitat.
Students learn about the properties of materials and how materials can be physically changed without changing their inherent properties. They apply this knowledge to design and make a 3D sculpture using repurposed everyday materials.
Students learn about sound energy and how different objects and actions can create different sounds. They apply this knowledge to design and create sound effects for a specific prompt.Â
Students learn about the transfer of heat, resultant changes in temperature and the conductivity of materials. They explore real-life applications by designing a playground or piece of playground equipment that limits the impacts of heat.
Students learn about the observable properties of soils, rocks and minerals, and their importance as resources. They explore a way to sustainably use or reuse a resource that exists because of soils, rocks or minerals, in a design challenge adapted to their local context.
Students learn about the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers with their local habitat and use food chains to represent the feeding relationships. They apply their knowledge to their school grounds and develop agency in their local environment.
Students learn about the properties of natural and man-made materials including fibres, metals, glass and plastics. They explore how to test materials for different properties, and examine real-life applications by designing packaging suitable to store and transport food, justifying why each material has been chosen.Â
Students learn about solids, liquids and gases, determine their properties and consider how their particulate arrangement relates to their properties and behaviour. They study science communication to communicate what they have learned.
Students learn about how light is transferred, how it helps them to see, and how reflections, shadows, and refraction occurs. They explore real-life applications by designing and/or making an artwork that utilises light in an artistic or celebratory capacity.
Students learn about the role of the components in an electrical circuit and how they affect the transfer and transformation of energy. Using the context of blackouts, students explore how switches work and design prototype backup electrical circuits.
Students use scientific models to explore phenomena on Earth involving the relative position of the Sun and Moon, such as day and night, variable day length and the phases of the Moon. They explore the wider solar system and consider the scientific and technological innovations that have enabled humans to study space.
