Examining Soil

Describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface

Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity

Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations

Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface

Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity

Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations

Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity

Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things

Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter

Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships

Consider how people use scientific explanations to meet a need or solve a problem

Science knowledge helps people to understand the effects of their actions

Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions

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

With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge

Describes how adding or removing heat causes a change of state

Investigates the suitability of natural and processed materials for a range of purposes

With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and make predictions based on prior knowledge

Use provided scaffolds to plan and conduct investigations to answer questions or test predictions, including identifying the elements of fair tests, and considering the safe use of materials and equipment

Safely use appropriate materials, tools, equipment and technologies

Describes the characteristics and effects of common forms of energy, such as light and heat

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

With guidance, plan and conduct scientific investigations to find answers to questions, considering the safe use of appropriate materials and equipment

Follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate

Use formal measurements in the collection and recording of observations

Consider the elements of fair tests and use formal measurements and digital technologies as appropriate, to make and record observations accurately

Construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organise data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns

Use a range of methods including tables and column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends

Defines problems, describes and follows algorithms to develop solutions

Describes how digital systems represent and transmit data

Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends

Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings

Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings

Compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions

Reflect on an investigation, including whether a test was fair or not

Reflect on investigations, including whether a test was fair or not

Write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate

Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings to show patterns and relationships using formal and informal scientific language

Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings using formal and informal representations