K-6 SciTech Content by Jessica Lay

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-26 23:26:23 UTC

• Name body parts for senses

• Use senses to explore environment

• Use tools for observation

• Identify plant and animal parts

• Recognise needs of living things

• Describe animal features

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-26 23:26:39 UTC

• State needs and wants

• Match objects to uses

• Explore animal-built structures

• Use digital tools (photo, record)

• Follow basic online safety

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-26 23:27:03 UTC

• Life cycles (plants, animals)

• Light & sound interactions

• Human senses

• Forces (push/pull, magnetism, friction)

• Weather, seasons, rocks

• Sky patterns: Sun, Moon, stars

Observations and questions spark curiosity

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-26 23:27:59 UTC

Observations and questions initiate design and digital solutions

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jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:04:05 UTC

• Life cycles (plants, animals)

• Light & sound interactions

• Human senses

• Forces (push/pull, magnetism, friction)

• Weather, seasons, rocks

• Sky patterns: Sun, Moon, stars

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:04:36 UTC

• Apply steps of design process (define → plan → make → test)

• Test materials for product effectiveness

• Food/fibre design

• Aboriginal design practices

• Digital systems (inputs, algorithms, saving/retrieving data)

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:04:54 UTC

Investigations of changes provide knowledge and understanding

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:05:02 UTC

Design and digital solutions are created through knowledge and understanding

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• Earth’s systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere)

• Ecosystems & food chains

• States of matter & particle model

• Skeletal & muscular systems

• Heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation)

• Earth forces (erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes)

• Solar system basics (Earth’s revolution, planets, gravity

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:05:56 UTC

• Explore product/space design for user needs

• Generate & evaluate design ideas

• Research food/fibre production

• Digital systems for representing data

• Algorithms with branching/iteration

• Safe online collaboration

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:06:23 UTC

_{Physical and living systems depend on energy}

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:06:33 UTC

Design processes and digital systems are used to create solutions

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:08:06 UTC

• Adaptations of plants/animals

• Food webs & ecosystem impacts

• Environmental change & sustainability

• Human body systems (digestive, respiratory, circulatory)

• Electricity (circuits, conductors, insulators)

• Renewable vs non-renewable energy

• Climate change & weather impacts

• Features of the universe (stars, galaxies, exoplanets)

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:08:30 UTC

• Australian inventions & technologies

• Aboriginal co-design practices

• Prototyping, testing, evaluating designs

• Data & binary representation

• Coding with iteration & branching

• Sensors and automation

• Evaluating digital systems

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:08:45 UTC

Knowledge of our world and beyond inspires sustainable solutions

jessica_lay6 — 2025-08-27 00:08:56 UTC

Design and digital technologies engineer sustainable solutions

Digital systems used inputs and algorithms to produce an output

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Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment

a design process is used to define user needs and create solutions

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Objects are made of materials that have observable properties

Living things may change over millions of years in response to their environments

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Living things and objects move in different ways

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Understanding user needs inspires design and digital solutions

light and sound interact with materials in different ways

2025-08-29 00:32:01 UTC

the human body's sense organs detect its environment

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Creating written sentences supports understanding of Science and Technology

forces can change the way objects move

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planet earth is our home

2025-08-29 00:32:52 UTC

the sky is our window to the universe

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Recognise properties of materials using senses
Describe properties using adjectives
Pose questions about materials
Bend, twist, crush and stretch materials
Explore how ATSI Peoples use natural materials

2025-08-29 00:35:55 UTC

Observe, describe, categorise how living things moves
Label parts of the human body
Test movement of objects
Experiment how materials affect movement

2025-08-29 00:36:41 UTC

Adjectives describing properties
Nouns, adjectives, verbs for labelling and describing
Subject-verb-object simple sentences

Creating written explanations of concepts and processes supports understanding of Science and Technology

aidankeenan2 — 2025-08-29 00:37:12 UTC

soon_an2 — 2025-08-29 00:38:08 UTC

Describe how digital systems are used in everyday life and for learning
identify digital systems that can be used to collect personal data and how to protect personal information
Create a sequential algorithm that controls a digital device
Use the basic features of common digital tools to capture, save and retrieve data to communicate and collaborate

2025-08-29 00:38:56 UTC

light and sound can travel through air water and solids

light can be reflected refracted dispersed or absorbed by materials

vibrations

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples use materials and actions to create sounds for purposes

Test how materials affect volume and pitch

aidankeenan2 — 2025-08-29 00:39:17 UTC

Use nominalisations to convey scientific and technological concepts and processes succinctly
Add authority to written texts by using data to support an evidence-based explanation or argument
Use compound and complex sentences and labelled diagrams to create a text that explains a process, concept or investigation
Use notetaking, journalling, annotations and labelled images to create a multimodal text that documents the design processes involved in developing a solution
Acknowledge sources of information used in own texts

Living things depend on energy and materials to survive

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recognise the brain and organs

eyes and ears

taste and smell

help with environment

investigates touch

soon_an2 — 2025-08-29 00:40:01 UTC

Observe and record daily weather to identify changes and patterns
Investigate how seasonal patterns influence the behaviour and appearance of living things
Describe the ways in which Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples use seasonal indicators
Observe and identify rocks in natural formations and those used in built structures
Manipulate different rocks and describe their texture, colour and grain or crystal size

Energy is required to change the properties of matter

2025-08-29 00:40:19 UTC

Body systems work together to enable movement

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Heat energy can be transferred

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Forces shape Earth’s surface

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push and pull

effects of forces

traditional toys and tools used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

friction

forces magnetism

The Sun is the centre of our solar system and provides our world with energy

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Creating written explanations of physical and living systems supports understanding of Science and Technology

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