Science Year 1 Year 2 Earth & Space Sciences

Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s resources

Code ST1-10ES-S

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129 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    Sights and Sounds

    This unit has been designed for Year 1 based on the Australian Curriculum Physical Science Strand. Students will investigate sources of ligh...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Earth's Resources

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

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Combining Materials

    This unit covers the Chemical Sciences portion of the Australian Curriculum for year 2. Through a series of presentations, hands-on activiti...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Push and Pull

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

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    Growth and Change

    There are predictable stages that all living things go through. They can be very similar between different animals, and there can be interes...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    Changing Materials

    This unit has been designed to meet the requirements of the Year 1 Australian Curriculum Science - Chemical Sciences strand. In this unit...

  • 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 ‘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: Powerful Pollination

    This activity pack contains a fun pollination activity that turns your classroom into a field of flowers for the students to pollinate. It w...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Extinction Emergency

    This STEAM activity pack was designed to accompany our Extinction emergency presentation. It includes instructions for the STEAM activities,...

  • 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

    Making Music - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support lesson 4 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Making Noise - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support lesson 3 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    How do we sense sound? - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support lesson 2 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    What is sound? - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support lesson 1 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    The Impact on Us - Presentation

    This presentation on weather and the seasons has been created to support Lesson 5 of the Weather and the Seasons science unit. It allows the...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    The Impact on Plants - Presentation

    This presentation on weather and the seasons has been created to support Lesson 4 of the Weather and the Seasons science unit. It allows the...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    The Impact on Animals - Presentation

    This presentation on weather and the seasons has been created to support Lesson 3 of the Weather and the Seasons science unit. It allows the...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    The Seasons - Presentation

    This presentation on weather and the seasons has been created to support Lesson 2 of the Weather and the Seasons science unit. It allows the...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    The Weather - Presentation

    This presentation on weather and the seasons has been created to support Lesson 1 of the Weather and the Seasons science unit. It allows the...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Telling Rocks Apart - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 3 of the Soil, Rocks and Minerals unit. It allows the teacher...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Types of Rocks - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 2 of the Soil, Rocks and Minerals unit. It allows the teacher...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Studying the Earth - Presentation

    This Earth and Space Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 1 of the Soil, Rocks and Minerals unit. It allows the teacher...

  • 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 System 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

    Powerful Pollination - Presentation

    This presentation teaches students the importance of pollination to the lifecycle of plants. It was created as part of a STEAM activity, and...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Extinction Emergency - Presentation

    In this STEAM presentation, your students will learn the various ways that animals have gone extinct over time and the current risk to endan...

  • 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...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    Natural Features - Presentation

    This presentation features a variety of natural features of the landscape.  It forms part of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit - T...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    Managed Features - Presentation

    This presentation features a variety of managed features of the landscape.  It forms part of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit - T...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    Constructed Features - Presentation

    This presentation features a variety of constructed features of the landscape.  It forms part of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    Identifying Changes to these Features - Display Images

    This display has been designed to be shown to the class during the final assessment of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit - The Sky an...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Achievement Standards - Science

    This printable resource presents the full set of Science achievement standards from Foundation to Year 6, expressed in student-friendly “We...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Living Things and Their Homes - Rubric

    This assessment pack includes two detailed rubrics to support science learning in Year 1: one focused on student knowledge of living things...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Weather Chart Series

    The Weather Chart provides a fun and interactive way for students to track daily weather patterns in the classroom. Along with this chart, w...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Weather and the Seasons Rubric

    This comprehensive 3-star rubric is designed to assess and guide students' understanding of the Weather and the Seasons Year 1 Science Unit....

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    All About Sound Display Poster

    This engaging display poster explains how sound is made by vibrations. As these vibrations move around, they push the air around them, creat...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Hearing Sounds Rubric

    This rubric has been created as an assessment item for the Hearing Sounds unit, letting you assess your students’ understanding throughout t...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Hearing Sounds Quiz

    This quiz has been created as an assessment item for the Hearing Sounds unit, letting you check your students understanding at the end of th...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Hearing Sounds Title Page

    This worksheet is a beautiful cover for a unit workbook or the perfect sheet for fast finishers. This worksheet is part of a larger unit...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Weather and Seasons Title Page

    This title page is a great way to kick off the weather and seasons activities in your student’s workbook, or it works great as a fast finish...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Weather and Seasons Quiz

    This presentation was created to be used as part of an assessment tool. Students use a quiz answer sheet provided in the activity pack, and...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Seasonal Animal Activities

    In this worksheet, students investigate that adaptations that allow animals to better survive the changes of the seasons. The worksheet is p...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Pom Pom Popper Assessment

    This assessment is designed to be used at the completion of the Push and Pull Science Unit. Students will demonstrate their learning from th...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Pom Pom Popper Poster

    This simple procedural text is the perfect hands-on activity for your students when learning about the concept of push and pull. It has been...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Comparing Toys

    This worksheet allows students to identify different forces that are used by different toys, by comparing one of their own toys with a toy f...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Gravity - Worksheet

    This worksheet allows students to demonstrate their understanding of gravity and the different objects that will be affected by gravity.  

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    The Power of Forces

    This worksheet has been designed for students to record their observations as they complete various push and pull experiments. Students will...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Rocks & Soil Quiz

    This presentation was created to be used as part of an assessment tool. Students use a quiz answer sheet provided in the activity pack, and...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Rocks & Soil Quiz Worksheet

    This worksheet is part of an assessment for the Year 3 ACARA earth and space science curriculum unit called Soil, Rocks and Minerals. You wi...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Rocks Word Search

    This word search helps consolidate some of the geology terms your students will use throughout the unit, it also makes a great fast finisher...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Soil, Rocks & Minerals - Title Page

    Soil, Rocks & Minerals - Title Page

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Sample Collection

    This worksheet is designed to be a letter sent home to parents to explain the coming unit and enlist their help in the collection of rock an...

  • 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 ‘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 ‘Our Moving Sky’. It is a great front cover if you plan to coll...

  • 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.  I...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Extinction Bingo

    This game was created as an extension for a STEAM activity on extinction and endangered species. In this bingo game, a bingo caller works th...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Sketching The Sky

    This worksheet gets kids to slow down and cultivate mindfulness as they take a few minutes to watch the clouds, and then interpret what they...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    My Flying Insect

    Explore the world of flying insects with this interactive resource. Students will create their own flying insect models and learn about thei...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Land and Water Animal Sort

    Engage students in an exploration of different habitats with this interactive resource.

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Healthy Habitats

    Promote environmental awareness and conservation with this resource focused on healthy habitats.

  • Resource Year: 1

    Beach, Bush and Backyard Habitats

    Discover the wonders of diverse habitats with this comprehensive resource. Students will explore the unique characteristics and biodiversity...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Beach Animals

    Immerse students in the fascinating world of beach animals with this captivating resource. From crabs to seagulls, students will learn about...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Beach, Bush and Backyard Page Border

    Enhance visual presentations and displays with this decorative page border featuring a beach, bush, and backyard theme.

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Beach, Bush and Backyard Animal Sort

    Encourage students to explore animal diversity across different habitats with this interactive sorting activity. Students will categorise an...

  • 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.  

  • 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 3 6

    A Lemon Instead of Battery

    In this experiment, students create a chemical battery with a lemon that is able to power a small light. This could be an effective demon...

  • 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.  

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Word Wall - Seasons

    This word wall has been created in the seasons or weather theme to support earth and space sciences units of work. Students can be encourage...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    WALT, WILF & TIB - Seasons

    This set of WALT, WILF & TIB posters have been created in a weather or seasonal theme to support science units. They include: WALT...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Rain Cloud in a Jar

    Students will create a rain cloud in a jar as they investigate how rain is formed.  The experiment includes instructions and photographs...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    How to Make Rain in a Plastic Bag

    Students will create a rain cloud in a plastic bag as they investigate how rain is formed.  The experiment includes instructions and phot...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Thermometer Sort

    Students will read the temperatures shown on each of the thermometers and sort them into ascending or descending order. This forms part o...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    How does the sky look at night? - Worksheet

    Students will record observations of the night sky, including the way the moon changes shape throughout the month. This forms part of the...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Recording the Weather - Worksheet

    Over a period of time, students will record the daily weather by drawing the appropriate symbol. This forms part of the Foundation Earth...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Identifying Changes to Features - Assessment

    This worksheet has been designed to be utilised in the final assessment piece of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit - The Sky and Land...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Managed Features - Worksheet

    In this worksheet, students will identify and describe managed features of the landscape and explain why they are classified in this way....

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Constructed Feature - Worksheet

    In this worksheet, students will identify and describe constructed features of the landscape and explain why they are classified in this way...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Natural Features - Worksheet

    In this worksheet, students will identify and describe natural features of the landscape and explain why they are classified in this way....

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    My Emergency Kit Display - Worksheet

    Students will identify items that they should include in their household Emergency Kit to ensure safety in emergencies and weather condition...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Be Ready For Any Weather - Worksheet

    To complement their Emergency Kit, this worksheet provides the steps students must follow to ensure personal safety in any weather situation...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Daily Temperature Record - Worksheet

    Students will measure and record the temperature daily throughout the week. This forms part of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit -...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Phases of the Moon - Worksheet

    Students will observe the different phases of the moon take occur throughout the month. This forms part of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sci...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Why is it cooler at night? - Experiment

    This experiment aims to discover why the temperature is cooler at night.   It forms part of the Year 1 Earth and Space Sciences Unit -...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Seasons - Worksheet

    Students will attribute each of the months of the year to the matching season. They will complete the pictures to show the feaures of the la...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Night Sky Monthly Record Sheet

    Students will record the features of the night sky every night for a month, recording the way the shape of the moon changes throughout the m...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Features of Sky - Worksheet

    Students will identify features of the sky that can be seen in daylight and those that can be seen at night. This forms part of the Year...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Day and Night - Sorting Worksheet

    This sorting activity asks students to determine the features of the sky that can be seen only at daytime, only at nighttime or both in day...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    This is The Weather Cycle - Worksheet

    This worksheet features a simple diagram of the weather cycle. It forms part of the Foundation Earth and Space Sciences Unit - Weather.

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Rain Cloud In A Plastic Bag - Experiment

    Designed to accompany our experiment presentation of the same name, students will complete these visual worksheets to record their observati...

  • Worksheet Year: P F 1 2

    Rain Cloud In A Jar - Experiment

    Designed to accompany our experiment presentation of the same name, students will complete these visual worksheets to record their observati...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Seasons Photos of Trees

    The photographs in this poster clearly show the observable changes that occur to the landscape throughout the seasons of the year.

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Seasons Trees

    This poster depicts a tree representing the observable changes that occur to the landscape in each of the seasons throughout the year.  

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    My Emergency Kit Display

    Students will identify items that they should include in their household Emergency Kit to ensure safety in emergencies and weather condition...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Describing Resource Natural, Constructed and Managed

    Each of these posters shows a number of adjectives used to describe the various natural, constructed and managed features of the landscape....

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Weather Dice

    The weather dice can be used when looking at and recording the weather patterns and weather of each season as well as linking the weather to...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Weather Symbols Names Colour A

    The weather chart can be incorporated into the classroom morning routine, looking at and recording the weather patterns and weather of each...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Weather Symbols Names A

    The weather chart can be incorporated into the classroom morning routine, looking at and recording the weather patterns and weather of each...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Today's Weather Is - A3 Colour

    The weather chart can be incorporated into the classroom morning routine, looking at and recording the weather patterns and weather of each...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Time Of Day Display 3

    Use the Time of Day Display to sequence familiar events in time order and to understand the differences in the appearance of the sky at vari...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Time Of Day Display 2

    Use the Time of Day Display to sequence familiar events in time order and to understand the differences in the appearance of the sky at vari...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Time Of Day Display

    Use the Time of Day Display to sequence familiar events in time order and to understand the differences in the appearance of the sky at vari...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Thermometer Weather Recording

    Lower primary students can use the thermometer worksheets to record patterns in the weather as part of their studies on Earth and Space Scie...

  • Resource Year: P F 1

    Posters - Seasons Icons

    This set of posters represents each of the four seasons of the year with bright, colourful imagery. They have been designed to support lo...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Weather Sentence Sort

    Students will identify outcomes of familiar weather events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’,...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Recording Temperature - Thermometer Mon to Fri

    Record the temperature each day at the same time for a week to see how the temperature varies from Monday to Friday.

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Managed Features

    This poster depicts various Managed Features of the environment.  It can be used in conjunction with our posters on Constructed and Natur...

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Constructed Features

    This poster depicts various Constructed Features of the landscape.  It can be used in conjunction with our posters on Natural and Managed...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Weather Puzzles

    The 'Weather Puzzles' were created by request for a Foundation teacher to link the sentences with the matching image. This forms part of...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Months of the Year - Wall Display

    Months of the Year - Wall Display is a resource designed to provide a functional classroom display featuring visual representations of the s...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Science Experiment Prompts

    Use these sheets as a prompt for students when working through a science experiment.

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Phases of the Moon Flashcards

    These flashcards depict each of the individual phases of the moon - a highly visual and useful resource.

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Phases of the Moon Chart

    This chart is a visual depiction of each of the phases of the moon.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Water Cycle

    This set of charts clearly explains the Water Cycle with some lovely bright pictures to accompany the explanation.

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