Science Year 3 Year 4 Physical Sciences

Describes how contact and non-contact forces affect an object’s motion

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  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    V9 Fabulous Forces

    This unit is designed to cover the year 4 Physical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. This physics unit stands apart...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    v9 Solids & Liquids

    This is a unit designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 3 Chemical Science. It works in conjunction with the Year 3 Hea...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    V9 Magic Materials

    This 7-lesson unit covers all the Year 4 Chemical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. Throughout the unit, students co...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    Earth's Rotation

    This is a ten-lesson unit that is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 3 - Earth and Space Sciences. Over the cours...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Ecosystems

    This is a 5 lesson unit designed to cover the second of two Biological Science content areas for Year 4 students. Students learn about e...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Life Cycles

    This is a 5 lesson unit designed to cover the first of two Biological Science content areas for year 4 students. Lessons 2-4 could be ta...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Surface Change

    This is a 10 lesson unit, designed to cover the Australian Curriculum for Year 4 Earth and Space Sciences. Over the course of this unit,...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    v9 Living, Non-Living and Once-Living Things

    Over the previous 3 school years, students should have become quite familiar with living things. In this unit, we add to that understanding...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    v9 Heating Up

    This unit is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum’s Physical Science Area for Year 3. The unit takes place over eight les...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Bending Wood

    Wood is one of the most fundamental materials there is. We have been using it for millions of years because it is easy to cut, shape and fix...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Building Better Bridges

    This activity builds on the previous fun and learning of ‘Building Bridges’ and challenges students to think about how engineers choose mate...

  • 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: 1 2 3 4 +2

    STEAM Unit: Designing Robots

    Unlike many of our STEAM activities, this is a full unit, designed for Year 3 and 4 students to fulfil part of the Design and Technologies p...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Genetic Coin Toss

    This activity book is designed to be used with our genetics presentation, allowing you to extend this lesson with appropriate activities for...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Digestion Detectives

    This activity has all the learning of a dissection without any of the mess, smells or gross-out, and is designed to be complete in a single...

  • 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: 5

    Sources of Light - Presentation

    This Sources of Light – Presentation has been created to support Lesson 3 of The Might & Sight of Light unit for Year 5. It allows the teach...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Bending Wood - Presentation

    Wood is one of the most fundamental materials there is. We have been using it for millions of years because it is easy to cut, shape and fix...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Building Better Bridges - Presentation

    This presentation is designed to introduce students to the concepts included in a STEM activity of the same title. It will help students und...

  • 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: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Designing Robots - Presentation

    This STEAM presentation teaches students how robots are designed and made to solve student problems, and then walks students through the des...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Genetic Coin Toss - Presentation

    In this presentation, students are introduced to some of the ideas behind genetics, and that inherited chromosomes explain why families look...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4 5 6

    Your Digestive System - Presentation

    This presentation is designed to accompany the STEM activity “Digestion Detectives” where students learn about the organs in their digestive...

  • 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: 3 4

    Conductors and Insulators - Presentation

    This presentation explains thermo equilibrium, how heat moves, and how some materials are chosen depending on how well they transfer heat. S...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    What is Force? - Presentation

    Introduce the concept of force to students with this informative presentation. Through engaging visuals and explanations, students will lear...

  • Presentation Year: 5

    Shadows - Presentation

    Shadows - Presentation

  • Presentation Year: 5

    Absorption - Presentation

    Absorption - Presentation

  • Presentation Year: 5

    Transmission and Refraction - Presentation

    Transmission and Refraction - Presentation

  • Presentation Year: 5

    Reflection - Presentation

    Reflection - Presentation

  • Presentation Year: 5

    Sight - Presentation

    Sight - Presentation

  • Presentation Year: 5

    Introduction to Lights - Presentation

    Introduction to Lights - Presentation

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Fabulous Forces Title Page

    This title page is a great way to kick off a new unit, or as a fast finishers activity for students throughout the unit. It is a part of...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Sources of Light - Worksheet

    Students will identify sources of light around the school and determine if they are natural or artificial. A short cloze and colouring task...

  • 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: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Christmas Big Brain Builders

    Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges fr...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Winter - Northern Hemisphere

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

  • Resource Year: 3

    Summer - Northern Hemisphere

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

  • Resource Year: 5

    Colours of the Rainbow Mnemonic Poster

    This poster will help students remember the colours included in the rainbow and their order by introducing them to the mnemonic Roy G. Biv

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Title Page - Life Cycles

    Create title pages for your life cycle projects with this creative resource.

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Solids and Liquids Quiz

    Assess students' understanding of solids and liquids with this interactive quiz resource. Through engaging questions and challenges, this qu...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Egg Drop Evaluation

    Students complete this worksheet after testing their egg drop design and watching others in the class. They sketch their design, and then re...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Building a Tiny House

    For this worksheet, students have to weigh the desire to create a sustainable and environmental sound house, while sticking to a budget. The...

  • 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. 

  • 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: 3

    Sun from East to West

    A poster that explains that we see the sun rise in the east and set in the west. 

  • 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: 3

    Earth's Rotation - Title Page

    A title page for the Year 3 Earth’s Rotation unit.

  • 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 their  understandi...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Endothermic/Exothermic - Demonstration

    A teacher sheet explaining the preparation and methodology of the experiment students do as part of Lesson 4.  This activity helps illust...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Comparing Plants Worksheet

    Deepen students' understanding of plant characteristics with this interactive worksheet focused on comparing different types of plants.

  • 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: 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: 4

    Erosion Vocabulary Flash Cards

    Expand students' understanding of erosion with this set of informative vocabulary flash cards. Reinforce key concepts and facilitate meaning...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 H

    Types of Forces Posters

    In this set of ten posters, we examine the various types of contact and non-contact forces and the effect of each force.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Types of Bridge Structures Puzzles

    As part of Design and Technologies, Year 3 and 4 students will match various bridge types to the image. Year 4 science students will be look...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Tension and Compression Forces

    Year 4 science students will be looking the way forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct or indirect contact.

  • Resource Year: 5

    Light and Shadow Posters

    The 'Light and Shadow Posters' detail how light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted. They show shadow c...

  • Resource Year: 1 4 H

    Forces Poster Set

    Students will learn about the different types of forces that can be exerted by one object on another. They will learn about non-contact forc...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Forces and Movement Experiments

    Students will conduct experiments to investigate how forces and movement work.

  • Resource Year: 4

    Forces Acting Together Posters

    Students will learn about equal, unequal and multiple forces, and how those forces act together. 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Magnetic Force Posters

    The 'Magnetic Forces' posters were created by request and cover magnets, magnetic force, push and pull. They accompany Year 2 and Year 4 Phy...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Simple Machines

    This set of 7 charts depicts each of the 6 types of simple machine - lever, pulley, inclined plane, screw, wedge, wheel and axle. The title...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Science Experiment Prompts

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

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