Beneath our feet

Beneath our feet addresses AC Science Understanding ACSSU075 Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity, through the context of exploring rocks, soil and landscapes.

Explore our new sequences for Year 4 aligned to AC V9

Beneath our feet provides students with hands-on opportunities to:

• explore, describe and represent the components of different soils
• examine the features of rocks and draw conclusions about what this might mean for their use
• investigate and model of how weather may change rocks over time
• investigate and model of how weather may change landscapes over time

Students apply their new learning by:

• planning and conducting an investigation into the factors that affect water erosion of soils

Linking science with literacy

In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Beneath our feet, students represent and explain their understanding about how Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity, by creating these representations:

• Annotated diagram
• Factual text
• Graph
• Labelled diagram
• Map
• Procedural text
• Data table
• TWLH chart
• Word wall

This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.

The Beneath our feet sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:

• The Beneath our feet 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

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