Science / Year 5 / Science Inquiry Skills / Questioning and predicting

• TLF-IDS5683

This is an extensive teaching unit focused on learning, through a collaborative, inquiry-based approach, how celestial motion affects days, months and years, and how our solar system works. It includes comprehensive lesson plans, as well as student handouts and other teaching resources, for seven structured lessons that ...

• TLF-IDS7084

This comprehensive teacher resource explores the properties of light through a series of collaborative inquiry-based learning activities. Reflection, absorption and refraction of light, and consideration of how humans use light, are investigated using hands-on activities. Eight structured lessons are included, with comprehensive ...

• TLF-IDS8333

This sequence of tasks and resources investigates light including how light is absorbed, reflected and refracted. Activities include looking at how a telescope uses light, and how light travelling through, or reflected from, surfaces can create illusions, images and shadows. The interactive resource ‘Optics and images’ ...

• TLF-IDM014086

This is a unit of work designed to help students increase their understanding of solids, liquids and gases, and examines in detail the observable properties and behaviours of gas. Students use this learning to help them classify different substances and identify ways in which gases are used in their everyday lives. Additional ...

• TLF-IDS8332

Students explore the properties of solids, liquids and gases, with a particular focus on the properties of air. Students investigate how heating and cooling may or may not change the state of a particular substance. The tasks allow students to articulate their thinking and record ideas.

• TLF-IDM025137

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people maintain detailed knowledge systems about objects in the Solar System, including the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, and meteors. These traditions show how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people carefully observe the movements of celestial object, explain their motions, and ...

• TLF-IDM019510

This open-ended series of models allows students to experiment with virtual ecosystems and test their hypotheses about producer/consumer and predator/prey relationships. Students have the opportunity to 'think like a scientist', making hypotheses, doing experiments, making observations, and analyzing data. Students are ...

• TLF-IDM019508

This is an interactive resource about intraspecific differences and how variation in a population can help a species adapt to living in different environments. This activity explores student understanding of variation and inheritance. Students are then challenged to produce a crop of plants that can grow everywhere in a ...

• TLF-IDM019503

This is an interactive resource how different species can arise from a common ancestor if different groups have different selection pressures. Students can alter a field environment by growing a chain of mountains through the field. Students are challenged to grow the mountains to their maximum height while maintaining ...

• TLF-IDS4974

These seven learning activities, which focus on 'scientific inquiry' using a variety of tools (software) and devices (hardware), illustrate the ways in which content, pedagogy and technology can be successfully and effectively integrated in order to promote learning. In the activities, teachers facilitate the procedures ...

• TLF-IDL1488

Position lenses and mirrors to change the direction of light rays and produce images. Predict the properties of a reflection produced by a mirror according to its shape: flat, concave or convex. Explore how the distance of an object from a mirror affects the image produced. This learning object is the second in a series ...

• TLF-IDM015673

How can a water-filled plastic straw be used to decode a secret message? Watch as the Surfing Scientist demonstrates how lenses with a curved surface do curious things to light.

• TLF-IDL479

Investigate the role of physical forces in how bicycle wheels work. Test how wheel size, tyre pressure, tread and load affect rolling resistance. Then choose wheels best suited to track conditions in a time trial. This learning object is one in a series of four objects.

• TLF-IDL2543

Shine different combinations of primary colours onto a white object. See if the colour is different from what you would expect to be produced if mixing coloured paints. For example, will combining red and blue light produce purple, magenta or white light? This learning object is one in a series of two learning objects. ...