Science

Overall expectations in Science

The Science curriculum has been designed in recognition that learning is a developmental process and that the phases a learner passes through are not always linear or age-related.

For this reason the content is presented in a continuum for each of the four strands of Science -Earth & Space, Forces & Energy, Living Things, Materials & Matter. Alongside these strands, learners explore ideas related to Scientific Principles.

The content of the continuum has been organised into phases of development with each phase building upon and complementing the previous phase. The continuum makes explicit general understandings about Science for each strand in relation to broad concepts and ideas.

The Science Skills Continuum (second document below) shares information on how skills related to Science may be developed over time, in relation to the phases of growth through which a learner progresses. The skills are listed on the left (in bold) with examples of how the skill may be demonstrated in learning along the phase-based continuum.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The Science Curriculum serves as a guide for teaching conceptually. A child's learning in Science, where appropriate, is shared in relation to our Units of Inquiry in recognition of our commitment to a transdisciplinary approach to learning and teaching.

Further information about the timings of learning in relation to these understandings about Science within Units of Inquiry can be found in weekly communications between school and home.