Science Year 2 Science inquiry Science

Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences

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  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    v9 Our Moving Sky

    This flexible unit is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 2 - Earth and Space Sciences. Throughout this unit, stud...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Push and Pull

    This unit will investigate how the forces of push and pull affect the ways in whichΒ objects move on land, water and in the air. StudentsΒ ...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: What is a Hovercraft?

    This activity kit, designed to be used in conjunction with our β€˜What is a Hovercraft Presentation’ teaches your students the story of the ho...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: The Science of Flight

    This activity kit is designed to accompany the STEAM presentation on the Physics of Flight. In this pack, you will find all the necessary in...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: The Big Bang

    This activity pack is designed to go along with our Big Bang presentation. This activity kit allows you to turn that interesting presentatio...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    Patterns of Movement - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Science presentation has been created to support Lesson 5 - Patterns of Movement of the Our Moving Sky unit for Year 2....

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    The Moving Sun - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Science presentation has been created to support Lesson 4 - The Moving Sun of the Our Moving Sky unit for Year 4. It al...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    The Moving Sky - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Science presentation has been created to support Lesson 3 - The Moving Sky of the Our Moving Sky unit for Year 3. It al...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    The Solar System - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Science presentation has been created to support Lesson 2 - The Solar SystemΒ of the Our Moving Sky unit for Year 2. It...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    The Earth - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Science presentation has been created to support Lesson 1 - The Earth of the Our Moving Sky unit for Year 2. It allows...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    The Science of Flight - Presentation

    This presentation introduces students to the major forces involved in powered flight. It was designed as part of a STEAM activity pack that...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Ask About it - The Big Bang Presentation

    In this presentation from our Ask About it STEM range, we respond to a student who asked a question about the Big Bang. After briefly discus...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Moving Sky Quiz

    This worksheet is designed to be used as a piece of summative assessment for our Year 2 Earth and Space Sciences unit β€˜Our Moving Sky’. In i...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Researching Our Neighbours

    In this worksheet, students pick one of the planets in our solar system (other than the Earth) and search the internet for some simple facts...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Our Moving Sky - Title Page

    This title page was designed for the Year 2 Earth and Space Sciences unit β€˜Our Moving Sky’. It is a great front cover if you plan to coll...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Globe Terms

    In this worksheet, students demonstrate their familiarity with parts of the globe, including the poles, equators and hemispheres. This is...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    What is a Hovercraft? - Presentation

    The story of the hovercraft is a story of designing solutions to real-world problems and how the limits of technology can impact design.Β  I...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 5

    Sundials of Australia

    Sundials of Australia

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    The World's Hemispheres

    This poster shows the division of the earth into north and south hemispheres. The poster also shows the earth’s axis of rotation and give...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Moon's Orbit

    A poster that explains the moon’s orbit, and that it takes 27 days for the moon to orbit the earth.

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Lunar Eclipse

    Poster that visual explains how a lunar eclipse occurs.

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Solar Eclipse

    A poster that visually represents how a solar eclipse occurs.

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Solar Eclipse Prediction

    Students use their knowledge of how a total lunar eclipse occurs, and draw a diagram with annotations to illustrate their prediction of what...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Seasons Scientific Diagram

    Students draw a scientific diagram with annotations to show their understanding of how the earth’s rotation on it’s axis, and its orbit arou...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Seasons Average Temperature

    Students research the average temperature of their local area for each month, and plot on the line graph. They record the names of the seas...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Winter - Southern Hemisphere

    A poster that explains that for part of the year the southern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, this is when we are in indirect sunlig...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Summer - Southern Hemisphere

    A poster that explains how for part of the year the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, this is when we are in direct sunlight. W...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Southern Hemisphere's Seasons

    A poster that visually demonstrates how the seasons occur in the southern hemisphere.

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Sundial Observations

    This worksheet is used to record sundial observations and to draw a diagram of your sundial with labels.Β 

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Observing Shadows

    Students investigate/ observe the shadow of An object throughout the day. Students make predictions. They record length and direction of the...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Moving Shadows

    A poster that visually demonstrates how shadows occur, and how they move throughout the day.

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Sunlight and Shadows

    A poster that visually demonstrates how the sun causes shadows.

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Earth's Axis

    Poster explains how an axis is an imaginary straight line that runs through the North Pole, earth’s centre and the South Pole. The axis is t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Day and Night - Scientific Diagram

    Students draw a scientific diagram of the earth’s rotation on its axis and how this causes day and night. They include annotations.

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Observation of the Sun, Moon and Earth

    Students record some things that they have observed in the day and night in relation to the sun, moon and earth.

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    What I already know - Earth, Moon and Sun

    Students record what they already know about the earth, moon and sun. They draw and annotate a scientific diagram to show theirΒ  understandi...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Importance Of Recycling

    Students are asked to reflect on the importance of recycling through either writing or drawing. This worksheet was designed to be used with...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2 6

    (Re)Making Paper - Teacher Sheet

    This teacher sheet outline the instructions for a recycling activity where students turn scrap paper into beautiful, handmade paper bookmark...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Materials Scavenger Hunt

    Students set off around the classroom or playground in search of examples of each category of material. This worksheet can be done as a comp...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Water in a Strainer

    This is an interesting demosntration of the hydrophobic nature of oil, but for younger students, it just looks like an amazing magic trick....

  • Resource Year: 2 5 6

    Three Levels of Liquid

    The traditional demonstration of liquids and density. Use this colourful experiment to illustrate how liquids of different densities laye...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    How to Make Moon Sand

    Explore Science and Sensory Play with Moon Sand!This captivating presentation guides students through creating their own moon sand, a sand-l...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    How to Make a Rubber Egg

    An interesting investigation that demonstrates the changes that can happen to a familiar object during a chemical reaction.This is an experi...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Clever Play Dough

    An investigation of a non-Newtonian fluid, sometimes called Ooblek. This is a fun experiment for kids to play with and get messy. Β 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    A Sticky Balloon Too

    An investigation of static electricity. There isn’t really a place for static electricity in the current Australian Curriculum, but this...

  • Resource Year: 2

    A Plane Made of Rings

    An experiment where students create an unfamiliar paper airplane, that is still able to fly thanks to the forces of thrust and lift. The...

  • Resource Year: 2 5 6

    A Lamp with Bubbles

    An experiment that demonstrates the behaviour of liquids with different densities. Use this colourful experiment to illustrate how liquid...

  • Resource Year: 2 5 6

    A Growing Balloon

    A simple baking soda and vinegar chemical reaction inflates a balloon. Students learn that chemical reaction can produce a gas. Β 

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    WALT, WILF & TIB - Space

    These space themed WALT, WILF, and TIB posters are perfect for earth and space sciences units.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Seasons Timeline

    Coloured poster/ banner of timeline showing the seasons and months in the southern hemisphere. Display poster in class when looking at se...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 H

    Earth's Tilt Poster

    The Earth's Tilt Poster was created by request and explores and graphically depicts the reasons we have seasons. It shows Earth's axis and w...

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