IXL Skill Plan | Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0: Year 1

Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0: Year 1

Skills available for Australia Year 1 science objectives

Strand

Science understanding
Science as a human endeavour
Science inquiry

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Science understanding
Biological sciences
AC9S1U01 Identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs		Animals 1. What do animals need to survive? 2. Where do dromedary camels and polar bears live? 3. Where do giraffes and beavers live? 4. Where do whale sharks and tree frogs live? Plants 5. What do plants need to survive? 6. Where do water lilies and saguaros live? 7. Where do bearberries and powdery strap air plants live? 8. Where do turtle grass and giant sequoias live?
AC9S1U01 Identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs
Animals 1. What do animals need to survive? 2. Where do dromedary camels and polar bears live? 3. Where do giraffes and beavers live? 4. Where do whale sharks and tree frogs live? Plants 5. What do plants need to survive? 6. Where do water lilies and saguaros live? 7. Where do bearberries and powdery strap air plants live? 8. Where do turtle grass and giant sequoias live?
Earth and space sciences
AC9S1U02 Describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life		1. Describe the weather 2. Types of precipitation 3. Weather patterns
AC9S1U02 Describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life
1. Describe the weather 2. Types of precipitation 3. Weather patterns
Physical sciences
AC9S1U03 Describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects' motion and shape		1. Push and pull 2. Investigate pushes and pulls
AC9S1U03 Describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects' motion and shape
1. Push and pull 2. Investigate pushes and pulls

Science as a human endeavour
Use and influence of science
AC9S1H01 Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions		1. What do plants need to survive? 2. Design a race car track
AC9S1H01 Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions
1. What do plants need to survive? 2. Design a race car track

Science inquiry
Questioning and predicting
AC9S1I01 Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences		Forces 1. Investigate pushes and pulls 2. Design a race car track Living things 3. What do animals need to survive? 4. What do plants need to survive? 5. How do living things change their environments to meet their needs? 6. How do grey squirrels change the forest to meet their needs? Shadows 7. Investigate shadows Weather 8. Investigate sunlight and shade 9. Weather patterns
AC9S1I01 Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences
Forces 1. Investigate pushes and pulls 2. Design a race car track Living things 3. What do animals need to survive? 4. What do plants need to survive? 5. How do living things change their environments to meet their needs? 6. How do grey squirrels change the forest to meet their needs? Shadows 7. Investigate shadows Weather 8. Investigate sunlight and shade 9. Weather patterns
Planning and conducting
AC9S1I02 Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions
AC9S1I02 Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions


AC9S1I03 Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate		1. What objects can a magnet pull? 2. Investigate sunlight and shade 3. Design a sunshade
AC9S1I03 Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate
1. What objects can a magnet pull? 2. Investigate sunlight and shade 3. Design a sunshade
Processing, modelling and analysing
AC9S1I04 Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models		1. Identify plants and animals 2. Weather patterns
AC9S1I04 Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models
1. Identify plants and animals 2. Weather patterns
Evaluating
AC9S1I05 Compare observations with predictions and others' observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance		1. Investigate sunlight and shade 2. Weather patterns 3. Design a race car track
AC9S1I05 Compare observations with predictions and others' observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance
1. Investigate sunlight and shade 2. Weather patterns 3. Design a race car track
Communicating
AC9S1I06 Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary		1. What objects can a magnet pull? 2. Investigate sunlight and shade
AC9S1I06 Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary
1. What objects can a magnet pull? 2. Investigate sunlight and shade