Australian Curriculum • Year 1 • Science
Year 1 Science Curriculum Australia: What Students Learn and How to Practise
Year 1 Science helps children move from simply noticing the world to describing patterns, features, materials and changes more carefully. They begin to use observations as evidence and communicate what they discover.
What students work on
Learning can involve observable features of living things and materials, everyday changes, patterns in the environment and simple investigation skills. The exact sequence is easiest to see in the Year 1 Science curriculum units.
Science needs observation, not just facts
A useful science question asks students to look, compare, predict or explain. Encourage children to say what they observed before telling them the scientific answer. When possible, connect the topic to a safe real-world example: an object, a plant, a material, a weather observation or a simple classroom demonstration.
Use worksheets as records of thinking
A science worksheet is strongest when students draw, classify, label, compare or explain evidence. It should support the investigation or concept rather than replace it. After the worksheet, online practice can check whether the idea transfers to a different example.
How SkillrHub connects the learning
Each curriculum unit can link a Topic Guide, Teacher Slides, Worksheet, Practice and Test. This creates a coherent route for classroom lessons, home revision and tutoring. If a learner gets a practice question wrong, they can return to the matching explanation instead of searching the web again.
Optional Year 1 Science products
Prefer a ready-made teaching sequence? Browse the complete Year 1 Science bundle, its individual curriculum units, and the free Biological Sciences sample. Product details stay on SkillrHub; purchasing and downloads are completed on TPT.
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Australian Curriculum v9
Year 1 Science curriculum codes at a glance
This guide is linked to the exact Australian Curriculum v9 content descriptions used by SkillrHub. There are 10 Year 1 Science curriculum codes in this subject. Use the code list below to move from the broad year-level overview to the exact skill a student is learning.
Biological sciences
AC9S1U01 — Needs of plants and animals
identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs.
Earth and space sciences
AC9S1U02 — Daily and seasonal changes
describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life.
Physical sciences
AC9S1U03 — Pushes and pulls
describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects’ motion and shape.
Use and influence of science
AC9S1H01 — Science in daily life
describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions.
Questioning and predicting
AC9S1I01 — Questions, patterns and predictions
pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences.
Planning and conducting
AC9S1I02 — Safe investigation procedures
suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions.
AC9S1I03 — Making and recording observations
make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate.
Processing, modelling and analysing
AC9S1I04 — Sorting data and representing patterns
sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models.
Evaluating
AC9S1I05 — Comparing observations and predictions
compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance.
Communicating
AC9S1I06 — Communicating scientific ideas
write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary.
Curriculum descriptions are reproduced from the curriculum data used to organise SkillrHub resources. The Australian Curriculum remains the authority for official wording and scope.
Free-first learning
Try the free resources first
Before committing to another monthly or yearly learning subscription, use the free curriculum-linked resources available for the student’s current topic. Start with the Topic Guide, use Practice, review mistakes and then take the separate Test.
A larger paid question bank or learning program can be useful, but paying for more volume does not guarantee that a student will use it consistently. If the learner is already working through the free resources and still needs extra tutoring, marking, adaptive practice, reporting or more question volume, compare paid options for that specific need.
Free-first check: establish a consistent Learn → Practice → Test routine before deciding whether an additional paid service offers something the learner will genuinely use.