Science Year 5 Year 6 Earth & Space Sciences

Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth’s surface

Code ST3-10ES-S

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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    v9 Changes

    This is a unit designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 6 Chemical Science. In it, students investigate how materials c...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    v9 Environmental Factors

    ‘Environmental Factors’ is a Year 6 Biological Sciences unit aligned with the Australian National Curriculum. It is designed to cover ten le...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Adaptations

    This Adaptations unit is designed to cover the Biological Sciences content areas for Year 5 students. Students explore the types of adaptati...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    Natural Disasters and Extreme Climates

    In this unit, designed to last 10 lessons, students will complete the Year 6 ACARA Earth and Space Sciences curriculum, which focuses on nat...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    v9 Electricity

    This is an eight lesson unit designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 6 Physical Science. Throughout this unit, student...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    Our Place in Space

    This is a 10 lesson unit that is designed to cover the Australian National Curriculum for Year 5 Earth and Space Sciences. Over the cours...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    v9 Matter Matters

    This unit is designed to cover ten lessons for the Australian National Curriculum for Year 5 Chemical Science. During this unit, students le...

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    Science Unit: Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth

    The Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth unit is a structured, inquiry-based learning program where students explore geological and wea...

  • 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: 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 6

    Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth - Presentation

    The Natural Hazards and Their Impact on Earth presentation is a visually engaging PowerPoint that introduces students to geological and weat...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Generating Power - Presentation

    This Physical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 6 of the Electricity unit written for Year 6. It allows the teacher t...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Electrical Conductors and Insulators - Presentation

    This Physical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 5 of the Electricity unit written for Year 6. It allows the teacher t...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Types of Circuits - Presentation

    This Physical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 4 of the Electricity unit written for Year 6. It allows the teacher t...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Components - Presentation

    This Physical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 2 of the Electricity unit written for Year 6. It allows the teacher t...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Introduction to Electricity - Presentation

    This Physical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 1 of the Electricity unit written for Year 6. It allows the teacher t...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Pluto and His Pals - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 7 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Sky Gods - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 9 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    The Planets - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 5 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    The Sun - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 4 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    The Moon - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 3 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Human History of Space - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 2 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    Our Space Expedition - Presentation

    This presentation on our solar system has been created to support Lesson 1 of the Movement of the Planets unit. It allows the teacher to wal...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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...

  • 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: 5

    Colouring in Individual Planets

    This resource includes all the individual planets of our solar system in black and white. Students can colour these and create a class displ...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Order of the Planets - Mnemonic Poster

    This reference poster helps students learn and remember the order of the planets in our solar system using the mnemonic My Very Elderly Mons...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Physical Adaptation Comparison

    Explore the fascinating world of physical adaptations with this comparative resource. Students will examine different animals and their uniq...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Self-Reflection - Adaptations

    A self-reflection rubric for the information report on behavioural and physical adaptations of desert and plants.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Adaptations Physical and Behavioural Information Report

    An outline of what needs to be included in an information report on behavioural and physical adaptations of desert plants and animals.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Desert Water Conservation

    Students draw a scientific diagram with annotations of a Xerophyte (Desert Plant that has specifically adapted for water conservation).

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Seed Dispersal

    Students research one of the common modes of seed dispersal: Water, wind, animals, gravity or ballistics. They explain how the seed is dispe...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    The Australian Banksia

    Students explain and illustrate how the Australian Banksia survives the catastrophic event of Australian bushfires.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Mimicry in Plants

    Student research and investigate a plant that mimics the look of something else to aid its survival. They name and illustrate the plant and...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Plant Survival Adaptations

    Students describe the adaptations that helps each of the following plant survive. They draw and label a scientific diagram of each. E.g.,...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Plant Environmental Problems

    Students brainstorm some environments in which plants live, describe them and some of the possible problems that plants may face in those en...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Camel Adaptations Display

    A poster that highlights examples of physical adaptations of camels.

  • Resource Year: 5

    Penguin Adaptations Display

    A poster that highlights examples of physical adaptations of penguins.

  • Resource Year: 5

    Giraffe Adaptation Display

    A poster that highlights examples of physical adaptations of giraffes.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Camel Adaptations - Scientific Diagram

    Students raw a scientific diagram with annotations to show behavioural adaptations of camels in the desert.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Penguin Adaptations - Scientific Diagram

    Students draw a scientific diagram with annotations to show physical adaptations of penguins in Antarctica.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Giraffe Adaptations - Scientific Diagram

    Students draw a scientific diagram with annotations to show behavioural adaptations of giraffes in the Savannah biome.

  • Resource Year: 5

    Behavioural Adaptations - Active Times

    A set of poster that explains behavioural adaptations, “active times”; cathemeral, diurnal, nocturnal, crepuscular.

  • Resource Year: 5

    Desert Climate

    A poster that shows the extreme differences in temperature in the desert from day to night.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Animal Active Times

    Students define each active time and illustrate an animal for each type of active time. E.g., crepuscular, nocturnal, diurnal

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Dessert Survival - Plant and Animal

    Students draw a scientific diagram with annotations to demonstrate their understand of how a plant or animal survives in the desert.

  • Resource Year: 5

    Types of Adaptations

    A poster that explains behavioural and physical adaptations.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Adaptations - Title Page

    A title page to use in conjunction with the Year 5 Biological Sciences Unit, Adaptations.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Migration Marathons

    Students investigate some the largest migrations in the animal kingdom, plotting them on a world map.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Super Tardigrade

    Students take what they’ve learned about the Tardigrade, and reimagine them in a super hero setting.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plant Table

    This worksheet lets them compare their plant experiment’s measurements with the control group, as well as the other plants so that they can...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Mould Conclusions

    Students are able to complete their mould growth experiment, recording their final observations, and answering questions.

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Plant Proposal

    In this worksheet, students create an experiment for how a plant grows. They’re asked to identify all the relevant variables, consider wethe...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Dancing Daisies Debrief

    This 2 page worksheet is designed to work hand in hand with the first presentation in this unit, and help students better understand the sci...

  • 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: 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: 5

    The Planets

    This terrific resource lists important facts about each of the 8 planets in our Solar System. Also included are facts about Pluto, the dwarf...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Space Flashcards

    This set of flashcards lists words relevant to the Space theme along with matching pictures.

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