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Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS025)

Elaborations
  • manipulating objects and making observations of what happens
  • researching ideas collaboratively using big books, web pages and ICT within the classroom
  • exploring different ways of solving science questions through guided discussion
  • sorting information and classifying objects based on easily observable characteristics with teacher guidance
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Experiments,  Data collection

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