Science / Year 1 / Science Inquiry Skills / Planning and conducting

Curriculum content descriptions

Use informal measurements to collect and record observations, using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS026)

Elaborations
  • using units that are familiar to students from home and school, such as cups (cooking), hand spans (length) and walking paces (distance) to make and record observations with teacher guidance
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Data collection,  Instrumentation (Technology),  Informal units

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