Watch it grow! addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU030 Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves, in the context of caring for, and observing the life stages of, mealworms.
Explore our new sequences for Year 2 aligned to AC V9
Watch it grow! provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- explore the growth of a range of living things
- inquire about the processes of growth and change, of reproduction and death that apply to all animals
- compare the growth of living things under different conditions.
Students apply their new learning by:
- planning and conducting an investigation of the growth of a mealworm under different temperature conditions
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Watch it grow!, students represent and explain their understanding about how living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves, by creating these representations:
- Annotated drawing
- Line drawing
- Labelled diagram
- Data table
- Timeline
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU030
- ACSHE034
- ACSHE035
- ACSIS037
- ACSIS038
- ACSIS039
- ACSIS040
- ACSIS214
- ACSIS041
- ACSIS042
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Watch it grow! sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Watch it grow! unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU030
- ACSHE034
- ACSHE035
- ACSIS037
- ACSIS038
- ACSIS039
- ACSIS040
- ACSIS214
- ACSIS041
- ACSIS042
Our new all-online sequence Survive and thrive shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Survive and thrive is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Survive and thrive
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU030
- ACSHE034
- ACSHE035
- ACSIS037
- ACSIS038
- ACSIS039
- ACSIS040
- ACSIS214
- ACSIS041
- ACSIS042
Up, down and all around
Look out your window - do you notice a constantly changing world? The Sun rises and sets and the sky reflects many different hues over a day. Students sharpen their observation skills by conducting investigations in the school yard.
Up, down and all around addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU019 Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, in the context of changes that occur in the school grounds over time, and observing seasonal changes.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Up, down and all around provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- explore natural, made and managed features that undergo change
- investigate the daily, weekly and seasonal changes in their local environment through outdoor observations and photographic records
- observe sky and landscape over several timescales
Students apply their new learning by:
- investigating how human activities affect features of the landscape
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Up, down and all around, students represent and explain their understanding about how observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, by creating these representations:
- Data table
- Word wall
- Venn diagram
- Poster
- Flow chart
- Interview
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU019
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Up, down and all around sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Up, down and all around unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU019
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Our new all-online sequence Any day outdoors shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Any day outdoors is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Any day outdoors
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU019
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Changes all around
Changes to the land and sky occur all the time - what do you see from day to day? Observe and investigate the effects of human interaction on the school environment.
Changes all around addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU019 Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, in the context of exploring changes that come about because of construction, weather, and human interaction.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Changes all around provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- explore the natural, constructed and managed changes that they see in the sky and landscape around them
- use observations to make claims about what changes can tell us
- use scientific vocabulary to discuss how changes are managed
Students apply their new learning by:
- planning and conducting an investigation of a change to the landscape that is caused, and then managed, by humans
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Changes all around, students represent and explain their understanding about how observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, by creating these representations:
- Factual text
- Drawing
- Data table
- Annotated drawing
- Science chat board
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU019
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Changes all around sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Changes all around unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU019
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Our new all-online sequence Any day outdoors shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Any day outdoors is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Any day outdoors
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU019
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Look! Listen!
Light and sound are all around us. What produces light and sound? Can you feel sound? Does sound travel through things? Do we need light to see? Are two eyes better than one? Let’s use our senses to explore light and sound.
Look! Listen! addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU020 Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed, in the context of inquiring about familiar objects found in the school and at home.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Look! Listen! provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- investigate sources of light and sound
- explore how light and sound are produced and how light and sound travel
- increase understanding of the role of light and sound in our lives and our community
- explore why we have two eyes instead of one
Students apply their new learning by:
- conducting an investigation to collect data that will support their explanations of how having two eyes helps us see
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Look! Listen!, students represent and explain their understanding about how light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed, by creating these representations:
- Data table
- Annotated drawing
- Role-play
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU020
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Look! Listen! sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Look! Listen! unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU020
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Our new all-online sequence Sound studio shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Sound studio is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Sound studio
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU020
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Spot the difference
Everyday materials can be changed in a variety of ways, and what’s more ‘everyday’ than food? Explore how heating and cooling creates physical changes to the observable properties of food.
Spot the difference addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU018 Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways, through the context of food including spaghetti, chocolate and popcorn.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Spot the difference provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- compare the properties of cooked and uncooked food
- predict how heating and cooling can change foods
- learn about how changes to food can be reversed or not
Students apply their new learning by:
- planning and conducting an investigation of which type of chocolate bud melts the fastest
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Spot the difference, students represent and explain their understanding about how everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways, by creating these representations:
- Annotated drawing
- Word chain
- Data table
- Drawing
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU018
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Spot the difference sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Spot the difference unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU018
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Bend it! Stretch it!
Some things can be bent, some things can be stretched, some things can be folded, some things can be cut... How a material can be changed depends on what it’s made of. Explore how everyday materials can be physically changed.
Bend it! Stretch it! addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU018 Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways, in the context of manipulating familiar materials like paper, plastic, metal, and playdough.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Bend it! Stretch it! provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- explore how to use twisting, stretching, scrunching and bending to physically change the shape of everyday materials
- observe how the properties of familiar materials might change under different conditions
- consider why some physical changes do not last
Students apply their new learning by:
- planning and conducting an investigation about the effect of heat on the ability to shape playdough
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Bend it! Stretch it!, students represent and explain their understanding about how everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways, by creating these representations:
- Data table
- Annotated
- Drawing
- Flow chart
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU018
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Bend it! Stretch it! sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Bend it! Stretch it! unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU018
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Our new all-online sequence Take, shape and create shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Take, shape and create is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Take, shape and create
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU018
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Schoolyard safari
Earthworms, snails, ants. How are they similar and different? Examine the habitats and external features of small animals to see how their basic needs are met.
Schoolyard safari addresses the AC Science Understandings ACSSU017 Living things have a variety of external features, and ACSSU211 Living things live in different places where their needs are met, in the context of exploring and investigating habitats found in the schoolyard.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Schoolyard safari provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- observing the features and behaviour of small animals such as earthworms, snails and ants
- develop a better understanding of how adaptations help animals survive in their habitats
- identify similarities and differences between small animals
Students apply their new learning by:
- planning and conducting an investigation to collect data that will encourage students to make links between the types of habitats and the features of the animals that are found there, and how that contributes to meeting animals’ needs.
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Schoolyard safari, students represent and explain their understanding about how living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their needs are met, by creating these representations:
- Factual text
- Data table
- Graph
- Ideas map
- Labelled diagram
- Map
- Role-play
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU017
- ACSSU211
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Schoolyard safari sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Schoolyard safari unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU017
- ACSSU211
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Our new all-online sequences Finding features and Survive and thrive share curriculum content descriptors with this sequence. Finding features and Survive and thrive are aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contain embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Finding features
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.
Survive and thrive
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU017
- ACSSU211
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS212
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Dinosaurs and more
My, what big teeth you have… Find out how the physical features of dinosaurs and other animals help them meet their basic survival needs. Use this new understanding to design a defence against a dinosaur attack!
Dinosaurs and more addresses the AC Science Understandings ACSSU017 Living things have a variety of external features, and ACSSU211 Living things live in different places where their needs are met, in the context of comparing modern animals with dinosaurs.
Explore our new sequences for Year 1 aligned to AC V9
Dinosaurs and more provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- explore the external features of modern animals
- compare skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals with modern animals
- learn about the protective features of dinosaurs
- observe and discuss teeth types in humans and other animals
- label external features of fossilised prehistoric food sources
Students apply their new learning by:
- designing, making and evaluating a shield inspired by the features that helps dinosaurs defend themselves
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Dinosaurs and more, students represent and explain their understanding about how living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their needs are met, by creating these representations:
- Annotated drawing
- Labelled diagram
- Data table
- T-chart
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU017
- ACSSU211
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Dinosaurs and more sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Dinosaurs and more unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU017
- ACSSU211
- ACSHE021
- ACSHE022
- ACSIS024
- ACSIS025
- ACSIS026
- ACSIS027
- ACSIS213
- ACSIS029
Weather in my world
Clouds, temperature changes, wind and rain; explore how the weather and temperature influences our daily decisions, culminating in a weather report at the end of the unit.
Weather in my world addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU004 Daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life, in the context of observing, recording, investigating, and reporting on the local weather.
Explore our new sequences for Foundation aligned to AC V9
Weather in my world provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- identify distinctive characteristics of the weather
- develop understanding about the air, sun and wind
- increase knowledge of how the characteristics of weather affect their daily lives
Students apply their new learning by:
- recording and reporting on a weather investigation
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Weather in my world, students represent and explain their understanding about how daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life, by creating these representations:
- Drawing
- Data table
- Factual recount
- Factual text
- Word wall
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU004
- ACSHE013
- ACSIS014
- ACSIS011
- ACSIS233
- ACSIS012
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The Weather in my world sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The Weather in my world unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU004
- ACSHE013
- ACSIS014
- ACSIS011
- ACSIS233
- ACSIS012
Our new all-online sequence Any day outdoors shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Any day outdoors is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.
Any day outdoors
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.
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU004
- ACSHE013
- ACSIS014
- ACSIS011
- ACSIS233
- ACSIS012
On the move
People like to move it, move it. Toys like to move it, move it. How do they move? Which forces make objects move? Explore the factors, including size and shape, that affect how an object moves and look closely at how far objects can roll depending on their shape.
On the move addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU005 The way objects move depends on a variety of factors, including their size and shape, in the context of inquiring about familiar objects like toys, playground equipment, and their own body.
Explore our new sequences for Foundation aligned to AC V9
On the move provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- develop an understanding of how things move
- explore the push and pull forces they can use to move objects in ways such as sliding, bouncing and spinning
- observe and gather evidence about objects and explore the idea of fair testing
Students apply their new learning by:
- planning and conducting an investigation of the effects of shape, size and surface on how far things can roll
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In On the move, students represent and explain their understanding about how objects move depending on a variety of factors, including their size and shape, by creating these representations:
- Data table
- Word wall
- Labelled diagram
- Venn diagram
- Graph
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU005
- ACSHE013
- ACSIS014
- ACSIS011
- ACSIS233
- ACSIS012
This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.
The On the move sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:
- The On the move unit PDF
- Equipment list
- Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
- Student eResource sheets
- Assessment resources:
- Assessment rubrics
- Work samples
- Student self-assessment
- Achievement standard class checklist
Teacher tools
This sequence addresses the following Australian Curriculum V8.4 content descriptions
- ACSSU005
- ACSHE013
- ACSIS014
- ACSIS011
- ACSIS233
- ACSIS012