Science - Australian Curriculum - Revised

Guide your students through their science inquiry with the newly revised Australian Curriculum Science series. It is fully aligned to V9.0 of the curriculum, so you’ll be ready to teach, with this easy-to-follow series that also incorporates science literacy. Students are introduced to each topic through a text with accompanying comprehension questions, and then engage in a hands-on activity or experiment.

Features

• Updated and refined content, with a range of engaging new lessons that include the recognition of First Nations Australians as the first Australian scientists

• The Science as a human endeavour strand integrated into each unit

• ‘Ponder points’, suggesting content-, process-, product- or environment-based strategies, to help teachers adjust lessons to support the different needs of their students

• ‘Measure in a minute’ quick assessment suggestions for each lesson and/or an optional integrated unit assessment at the end of each unit

• Scope and sequence charts for the Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0 and an access link to a digital planning tool

• Flexible use of the series, as the basis for a science program, as a support resource, or to provide further practice or reinforcement of science learning.
  

The Foundation book covers the sub-strands of Biological, Physical and Chemical sciences.

The content includes features of plants and animals; how objects move; materials and properties.

The Year 1 book covers the sub-strands of Biological, Earth and space, Physical sciences.

The content includes the needs of plants and animals; daily and seasonal changes; how pushes and pulls affect motion and shape.

The Year 2 book covers the sub-strands of Earth and space, Physical and Chemical sciences.

The content includes the solar system and patterns of the sun, moon, planets and stars; how to make sounds; physical changes to materials.

The Year 3 book covers the sub-strands of Biological, Earth and space, Physical and Chemical sciences.

The content includes the living and non-living things and life cycles of living things; properties of soils, rocks and minerals; heat energy and how it moves; properties of solids and liquids and how they change state.

The Year 4 book covers the sub-strands of Biological, Earth and space, Physical and Chemical sciences.

The content includes consumers, producers and decomposers and food chains; sources of water and key processes in the water cycle; how forces, including friction, gravity and magnets, affect motion; properties of natural and man-made materials and their uses.

The Year 5 book covers the sub-strands of Biological, Earth and space, Physical and Chemical sciences.

The content includes how structural and behavioural features of living things enable survival; how Earth's surface changes through weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition; light and shadows and how light can be reflected and refracted; properties of solids, liquids and gases.

The Year 6 book covers the sub-strands of Biological, Earth and space, Physical and Chemical sciences.

The content includes physical conditions in a habitat and the effect on living things; how the movement of Earth and other planets relates to observable patterns like day and night; how energy moves in electrical circuits and the components, insulators and conductors used; comparing reversible and irreversible changes.