Investigations of Changes Provide Knowledge and Understanding | Kamay Botany Bay EEC
Stage 1 - Science and Technology
Location
Kamay Botany Bay EEC - Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell
Unit Description
This fieldwork-based excursion provides opportunities for students to investigate change, patterns and cause-and-effect relationships within the unique coastal environments of Kamay Botany Bay National Park.
Students engage in hands-on scientific investigations to explore living things and life cycles, how their senses gather information about the environment, how forces affect movement and how weather and environmental conditions influence living things. Through observation, measurement, testing and data collection, students identify patterns and relationships and communicate their findings using scientific vocabulary, diagrams and simple data displays.
Aboriginal perspectives are embedded throughout the program, highlighting Dharawal Peoples' knowledge of seasonal change, living things and caring for Country.
ST1-SCI-01 – Measures and describes changes in living things, materials, movement, Earth and the sky
ST1-PQU-01 – Poses questions based on observations and information to investigate cause and effect
ST1-DAT-01 – Collects, represents and uses data to identify patterns and relationships
Living Things Change Over Time
• Collect data about the variety of living things in a local habitat, group them and justify the groupings
• Describe changes in plants and animals using observations, data and scientific models
• Describe how Aboriginal Peoples use Knowledges of life cycles and seasonal changes
The Human Body's Sense Organs Detect Its Environment
• Investigate how senses gather information
• Observe and describe how eyes, ears, nose and skin help detect environmental changes
• Pose questions and test observations using sensory investigations
Planet Earth Is Our Home
• Observe and record weather
• Identify environmental patterns
• Investigate rocks and natural formations
• Explore Aboriginal seasonal indicators
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Introduction, toilets & fruit break/recess |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Habitat detectives - investigating living things and life cycles |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Exploring our environment through our senses |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Coastal Habitat Detectives: Living Things and Change |
| 2:00 | Toilet break, reflection, wrap up, roll call and departure |
* There may be variations to timetable based on specific location, group size and weather
Students will:
- Conduct scientific investigations using observation and testing
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Collect, record and interpret data
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Identify patterns and relationships
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Investigate cause-and-effect relationships
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Use evidence to explain findings
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Communicate scientific observations using diagrams, labels and simple sentences