Oz-e-science
In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn about:
- different types of weather and the symbols that represent them and describing today’s weather. Also, tracking the weather for a wheel using weather symbols
- different air temperatures and measuring the air temperature using a simple thermometer
- different seasons and how to represent them on a season wheel
- different fruits and vegetables that are ‘in season’ during the four seasons and representing these fruits and vegetables on a season wheel
- how some animals behave differently depending on the season and representing animals that hibernate on the season wheel
- comparing the wet and dry seasons and finding places that experience these seasons
- some of the different seasons that Indigenous Australians follow and representing the three main seasons of the Tiwi Island people onto the season wheel
- planning a video about the weather and the seasons and the seasons
- creating a video about the weather and the seasons
- completing a final assessment, reporting and communicating.
- Look at the different types of weather and the symbols that represent them.
- Describe today’s weather and track the weather for a week using weather symbols.
- Identify different air temperatures.
- Measure the air temperature using a simple thermometer.
- Identify the different seasons.
- Represent the seasons on a season wheel.
- Identify the different fruits and vegetables that are in season during the four different seasons.
- Represent the fruits and vegetables that are in seasons on the season wheel.
- Describe how some animals behave differently depending on the season.
- Represent animals that hibernate on the season wheel.
- Compare wet and dry seasons.
- Find places that have wet and dry seasons.
- Find some of the different seasons that Indigenous Australians follow.
- Represent the three main seasons of the Tiwi people on the season wheel.
- Plan a video about the weather and the seasons.
- Create a video about the weather and the seasons.
Progress Tests
Progress tests are conducted after every second lesson, allowing teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past two lessons and to identify where reteaching is needed. The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions, and the Student Workbook has a section where students write their answers and score themselves.
Structured Research Activity
The Structured Research Activity (SRA) for this unit is: Students create and present a video on the weather and the seasons. The SRA takes place over two lessons so students can apply the Science Understanding and Science Inquiry Skills covered in the unit. Teachers use the Guide to Making Judgements, which is included in the Teaching Guide, to mark the SRA.
End-of-Unit Assessment
The last lesson is the end-of-unit assessment, which has a variety of question formats (e.g., label the diagram, circle the correct answer) to assess student mastery of content from the unit. The end-of-unit assessment is in the Teaching Guide. Teachers copy the assessment and distribute to students at testing time.
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