Earth & Space Sciences

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  • Lesson Year: 5

    Exploring Our Solar System

    In this lesson, students explore how our ability to look into space has evolved through time, and how that’s allowed us to learn more about...

  • Lesson Year: 5

    Other Members of our Neighbourhood

    In this lesson, students learn about the thousands of other objects that are drifting out in our galaxy, that don’t often get talked about....

  • Lesson Year: 5

    Modelling the Solar System

    In this lesson, students explore just how big the distance between the planets is. The earth may seem like a big place, but it’s one of the...

  • Lesson Year: 5

    Discovering the Solar System

    In this lesson, students learned all about the 8 planets in our solar system.

  • Lesson Year: 5

    The Sun

    In this lesson, students learn about the sun, it’s importance as the centre of our galaxy, and how it powers us and the world that we live i...

  • Lesson Year: 5

    The Moon

    In this lesson, students explore the moon. What it is, how it was made, its size and distance compared to the earth, and why it seems to cha...

  • Lesson Year: 5

    Astronomers Past and Present

    In this lesson, students expore how people thought about space through time, and how famous scientists’ discoveries have changed how we unde...

  • Lesson Year: 5

    Our Space Expedition

    In this lesson, students discuss their prior knowledge of space, and are introduces to the concepts within the unit. 

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Historical Disaster Assessment

    This assessment will span over 2 lessons. In groups, students will pick a natural disaster and create a presentation, which they will presen...

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Extreme Weather

    In this lesson, students explore the various extreme weather events that have the power tochange the surface of the earth and impact those o...

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Tsunamis

    In this lesson, students discuss Tsunamis, how they’re formed, and the damage that they do. They explore the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Volcanoes

    In this lesson, students work through the volcanoes presntation and they creat a 3D model of a volcano.

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Exploring Earthquakes

    In this lesson, students watch an example of a presentation similar to the ones they will be starting in a few weeks.They also discuss how s...

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Measuring Magnitude

    In this lesson, students investigate how scientists measure and study earthquakes, and why they do it. 

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Earthquakes

    In this lesson, students learn that when plates move across or towards each other, they can release energy in the form of earthquakes.

  • Lesson Year: 6

    Intro and Plate Tectonics

    In this lesson, students explore the different layers of the earth, and focused on the crust. This includes, the thinnest layer, the crust,...

  • 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: 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: 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,...

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Changes in the sky and landscape

    In this lesson students will be assessed on what they have learn in this unit, the sky and landscape.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Managed Features of the Landscape

    In this lesson students will look at manafed features within the environment.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Constructed Features of the Landscape

    In this lesson students will learn about the constructed features within their envirnoment.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Natural Features of the Landscape

    In this lesson students will learn about natural features we see in the environment.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Safety in Weather

    In this lesson students will learn how to create an emergency kit and which rules to follow in case of a weather emergency.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Measuring Temperature

    In this lesson students will look at other ways to observe changes in the weather during the day or night.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Changes to the Moon

    In this lesson students will observe the changes that are happening to the moon this month.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Why is it cooler at night?

    In this lesson students will investigate the reason why it is coller at night than during the day.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Weather Changes

    This lesson will discuss the seaons of the year and the changes that occur in each season.

  • Lesson Year: 1

    Observing Skies

    In this lesson students will explore the sky and how it changes throughout the day and night.

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    The Sky and Landscape

    This unit has been designed for Year 1 based on the Australian Curriculum Earth and Space Sciences strand. Students will investigate the obs...

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