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describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement (AC9SFU02)

Elaborations
  • observing how toys move, and grouping them based on their movement
  • observing and describing ways different and unusually shaped objects such as blocks, tubes or eggs move when rolled down a slope
  • comparing the way different-sized, similar-shaped objects such as tennis balls, golf balls, marbles or basketballs roll and bounce
  • exploring how the material a ball is made from affects the way it moves, such as plastic, foam, cloth or rubber balls on a surface
  • exploring how the size and shape of traditional instructive toys used by First Nations Australians influence their movement
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Play (Recreation),  Toys,  Discovery (Observations),  Mechanical energy

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Foundation Year Science open questions

  • TLF-IDA010269
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F
  • Updated03/07/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource presents a Foundation Year Science formative assessment in which students are invited to respond to questions about the way objects move and the factors that influence movement. It outlines how assessment design begins by clarifying learning intentions, students’ starting points and intended progression. The ...

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Make it move: Connected Learning Experience (CLE)

  • TLF-IDM021304
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

In this investigation, students explore ways objects move. They observe and compare the movements of various objects that they interact with when playing.

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Tami’s Tower

  • TLF-IDA009648
  • Learning areasDesign and Technologies; Science
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This interactive game explores solving problems with engineering design and thinking strategies. Students construct structures out of a variety of block pieces to help Tami the golden lion tamarin reach food. The game is supported by a lesson plan booklet that includes activities, guiding questions, printable activity sheets ...

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Primary Connections: Make it move!

  • TLF-IDA008939
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

In this sequence of seven lessons, students learn about movement, including how they can move, how they can make objects move and how the size, shape and material of an object can affect the way it moves. Professional learning, assessment advice, potential discussion prompts and opportunities for reflection are integrated ...

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Movement, pushes and pulls

  • TLF-IDA008458
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This sequence of 8 lessons introduces students to forces, including how pushes, pulls, size, shape and material affect movement. Each lesson is structured around explicit teaching and the gradual release of responsibility. The sequence concludes with a summative assessment. A downloadable sequence pack includes lesson plans, ...

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Air & space: air moves

  • TLF-IDA006663
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource from the Smithsonian Learning Lab provides opportunities to talk with early years students about wind and how we know that it moves. Students view images of windy scenes, watch a video about kite flying, and are then invited to engage in simple science activities that explore air movement. The resource is ...

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Air & space: can it fly?

  • TLF-IDA006662
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource from the Smithsonian Institute provides opportunities to talk with early years students about things that fly and the reasons why flight is possible. Students learn about birds, planes, air balloons, and bats, and are then invited to engage in art and design activities exploring flight. The resource is part ...

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Water flow

  • TLF-IDA005819
  • Learning areasMathematics; Science; Design and Technologies
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

In this module, students discuss the importance of water and discover effective ways of transporting it to meet personal and community needs. The module includes a comprehensive teacher guide, curriculum links, materials lists, design process guides and printable student resource sheets. The resource also provides an editable ...

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Work sample Foundation Year Science: Watch it move

  • TLF-IDA004068
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Foundation Year Science. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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Coat-hanger Scales| Questacon

  • TLF-IDA006037
  • Learning areasScience; Mathematics
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated08/11/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

In this activity, students make balance scales from coat hangers and use them to compare the weights of familiar objects. The activity includes a list of what is required, suggestions of what to do and notice, questions to ask, an explanation for the underlying science of what students observe and suggestions for other ...

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Different paper plane designs

  • TLF-IDM020570
  • Learning areasScience; Design and Technologies
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

How many different paper plane designs are there? Lots! Watch as Dylan Parker, paper plane expert, demonstrates some of his favourites. Notice the way the different shapes and features of the planes cause them to move through the air in different ways. Which one do you like the most? Why not have a go at making something similar?

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Primary Connections: On the move

  • TLF-IDS7157
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F
  • Updated17/12/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This comprehensive teacher resource explores push and pull forces used to move objects, in ways such as sliding, bouncing and spinning, through a series of collaborative inquiry-based learning activities. Investigations are conducted to observe and gather evidence about rolling objects and explore the idea of fair testing. ...

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Planting the seeds of science

  • TLF-IDS4502
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4
  • Updated08/12/2021
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource is made up of two PDF documents containing a large range of science materials that teachers can use to develop science lessons. These documents, created from a book compiled in Western Australia for the Australian Government, include links to the Australian Curriculum. The 'Look what we found in the park!' ...

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How to Make Perfect Popcorn

  • TLF-IDA002742
  • Learning areasEnglish; Science
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated07/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This informative digital text about how to make popcorn is for teachers to read aloud to students. The instructions use text and images to list the equipment needed and the steps involved in making popcorn. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, ...

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Do we need a train at Chullora? – Early Stage 1

  • TLF-IDM025437
  • Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; Geography; English; Design and technologies; Science
  • Year levels F
  • Updated06/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This inquiry-based unit of work was created, trialled and peer reviewed as part of a professional learning program in inquiry-based learning for school teachers. The professional learning courses were part of a pilot partnership between the NSW Government’s Sydney Metro transport agency and Western Sydney University.

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Pet Superstars: Can you train a blue-tongue lizard to do tricks?

  • TLF-IDM017926
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Meet Coco and Yoshi, two blue-tongue lizards. Isabel says they make great pets. Find out what Isabel likes about them and how she cares for them. Discover how she gets Yoshi to complete a daring trick! See how a snail helps!

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Feathers, Fur and Fins: Observing a sugar glider

  • TLF-IDM015493
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Don Spencer shows us a small mammal called a sugar glider. Take a close look at its big eyes and furry tail. See it glide through the air from tree to tree. Watch the sugar glider eat. Learn how it got its name.

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Feathers, Fur and Fins: Observing an emu

  • TLF-IDM015497
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Join Don Spencer as he describes the emu, one of the biggest birds in the world. Watch emus searching for food and taking care of their eggs. Discover what makes the emu different from most other birds.

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Pet Superstars: A pig in high heels?

  • TLF-IDM017925
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Meet Trotsky the pet pig. Look at him carefully and find out more about pigs as pets. See how Trotsky is looked after and why he is a much-loved family pet.

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Feathers, Fur and Fins: Observing a kookaburra

  • TLF-IDM015494
  • Learning areasScience
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Watch a wild kookaburra being fed by hand. Don Spencer handles an injured kookaburra that is being nursed to health. It will be set free once it is well again. See where kookaburras make their homes. Listen to their laughing call.

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