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Science / Year 3 / Science as a Human Endeavour / Use and influence of science

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Curriculum content descriptions

Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE051)

Elaborations

considering how heating affects materials used in everyday life
investigating how science helps people such as nurses, doctors, dentists, mechanics and gardeners
considering how materials including solids and liquids affect the environment in different ways
deciding what characteristics make a material a pollutant
researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s knowledge of the local natural environment, such as the characteristics of plants and animals

General capabilities

Personal and social capability
Ethical understanding

ScOT terms

Human impact, Causality

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Unit for Year 3 to 4 Butterflies: Engaging with nature

TLF-IDA002403

This unit of work engages students in preparing butterfly gardens in their schoolgrounds. It explores scientific entomology, features of caterpillars and butterflies, the lifecycle of butterflies, survival requirements, and the characteristics of butterfly gardens. The unit includes worksheets, assessment ideas, pictures, ...

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