Science / Year 5 / Science inquiry / Questioning and predicting

Curriculum content descriptions

pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions (AC9S5I01)

Elaborations
  • posing questions that can be investigated scientifically, such as: ‘Do all animals which live in desert habitats have ways to survive without water?’
  • acknowledging and using information from First Nations Australians to guide the formulation of investigable questions about structural features and behaviours of living things
  • posing investigable questions about landscape features and how they were changed by weathering, erosion, transportation or deposition
  • asking questions and making predictions to test relationships, such as: ‘Will there be more erosion of steeper slopes? Will this organisation of mirrors enable me to see around corners? Are animals that camouflage well more likely to survive predation?’
  • making reasoned predictions about the habitat a plant or animal lives in or the observable effect of light interacting with an object
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Research questions,  Scientific inquiry,  Predictions (Science),  Patterns,  Observations (Data)

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