What students learn in AC9SFI05
This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others. The goal is not to memorise one answer pattern. Students should be able to explain the idea, recognise it in a new example and apply it in a short practice or worksheet task.
- Start with the main idea: share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others.
- Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
- sharing questions, making predictions and describing observations to others through discussions and circle groups recounting stories and posing questions about their own experiences learning about the natural world, such as when gardening or observing plants and animals at home or visits to conservation areas or centres
- Finish with mixed questions so students must choose the correct strategy rather than copy the last example.
Curriculum coverage and elaborations
The content description and elaborations below show the curriculum ideas taught in this unit. Items marked as teaching context support lesson planning but may not appear in the initial eight-question activity.
- Content description: share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others
- E1: sharing questions, making predictions and describing observations to others through discussions and circle groups
- E2: recounting stories and posing questions about their own experiences learning about the natural world, such as when gardening or observing plants and animals at home or visits to conservation areas or centres
- E3: acknowledging and exploring First Nations Australians’ ways of communicating information about anatomical features of plants and animals (teaching context)
- E4: showing or describing how objects can be moved in different ways and responding to questions
- E5: role-playing or showing how people use different equipment to make scientific observations
- E6: representing external features of animals and plants using a range of materials such as blocks, modelling clay, craft materials or paper
- E7: communicating questions, predictions and observations using posters, collages, digital displays, drawings or storyboards
How to use this unit
Read the topic guide, use the teacher slide for instruction, then complete the Worksheet, Practice and Test. These three activities use the same eight-question unit bank.
Teacher resource
AC9SFI05 teacher slide
Use this one-page PDF to introduce the key idea, vocabulary and teaching sequence before students begin the activities.
Open teacher slide (PDF)Common mistakes to watch for
- Describing what is seen without connecting it to a question, pattern or prediction.
- Using everyday words only and missing simple scientific vocabulary.
- Changing more than one thing in an investigation, which makes the comparison unfair.
International curriculum mapping
This table gives closest-topic mapping for search and planning. The Australian Curriculum code is exact; overseas entries are broad equivalents because each jurisdiction structures outcomes differently.
| Region | Curriculum | Closest mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Australian Curriculum v9.0 | AC9SFI05 — share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others |
| Victoria | Victorian Curriculum F-10 | Foundation Science: closest match in Communicating. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference. |
| NSW | NSW Curriculum | Early Stage 1 Science: closest content focus for Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others and related outcomes. |
| United States | Common Core / NGSS | Kindergarten NGSS science closest topic match for Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others. |
| England / UK | National Curriculum | Key Stage 1 / Year 1: closest programme-of-study match for Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others. |
| Canada | Provincial and territory curricula | Kindergarten closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference. |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Curriculum | Level 1 Science: closest achievement-objective topic for Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others. |
| India | NCERT / CBSE | Kindergarten / Foundation closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others. |