What students learn in AC9SFU02
This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of How objects move and how factors including their size, shape.... 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: describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement.
- Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
- observing how toys move, and grouping them based on their movement observing and describing ways different and unusually shaped objects such as blocks, tubes or eggs move when rolled down a slope
- 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: describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement
- E1: observing how toys move, and grouping them based on their movement
- E2: observing and describing ways different and unusually shaped objects such as blocks, tubes or eggs move when rolled down a slope
- E3: comparing the way different-sized, similar-shaped objects such as tennis balls, golf balls, marbles or basketballs roll and bounce
- E4: exploring how the material a ball is made from affects the way it moves, such as plastic, foam, cloth or rubber balls on a surface
- E5: exploring how the size and shape of traditional instructive toys used by First Nations Australians influence their movement (teaching context)
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
AC9SFU02 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 | AC9SFU02 — describe how objects move and how factors including their size, shape or material influence their movement |
| Victoria | Victorian Curriculum F-10 | Foundation Science: closest match in Physical sciences. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference. |
| NSW | NSW Curriculum | Early Stage 1 Science: closest content focus for How objects move and how factors including their size, shape... and related outcomes. |
| United States | Common Core / NGSS | Kindergarten NGSS science closest topic match for How objects move and how factors including their size, shape.... |
| England / UK | National Curriculum | Key Stage 1 / Year 1: closest programme-of-study match for How objects move and how factors including their size, shape.... |
| 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 How objects move and how factors including their size, shape.... |
| India | NCERT / CBSE | Kindergarten / Foundation closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for How objects move and how factors including their size, shape.... |