Level 5
Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives
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Flood Simulation Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how town planning can reduce the impact of flooding.
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What is Electricity?
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Geological Natural Disasters
A 60 minute lesson in which the students will investigate the causes and effects of geological natural disasters.
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Plate Tectonics
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore tectonic plates and the effects their movements have on the surface of the earth.
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Animal Adaptations Inquiry Task - Presenting
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Animal Adaptations Inquiry Task - Researching
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Blubber Me Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how blubber works as an insulator.
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Refracting Light
A 60 minute lesson in which students will observe the refraction of light at the surfaces of different transparent materials.
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Introduction to Adaptations
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What is a Fair Test? (Upper Years)
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Knowing Matters!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how knowledge of states of matter and their changes can help inform practices and decision making.
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Liquids
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the observable characteristics of liquids and how they behave in different ways.
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Matter Matters!
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Interpreting the Night Sky
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A Star, Some Planets and More!
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The Solar System Begins
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Shine Bright, Electric Light!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how changes to electrical circuits affect their components.
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Wired Up! - Building Electrical Circuits
A 60 minute lesson in which students will read and draw circuit diagrams.
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True Colours
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how the colour of an object depends on the properties of the object and the colour of the light source.
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Physiological Adaptations
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the physiological adaptations of plants and animals.
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In Living Colour
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how the colour of an object depends on the properties of the object.
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Behavioural Adaptations
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the behavioural adaptations of plants and animals.
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In the Shadows
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare shadows from point and extended light sources.