Up, down and all around addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU019 Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, in the context of changes that occur in the school grounds over time, and observing seasonal changes.
Up, down and all around provides students with hands-on opportunities to:
- explore natural, made and managed features that undergo change
- investigate the daily, weekly and seasonal changes in their local environment through outdoor observations and photographic records
- observe sky and landscape over several timescales
Students apply their new learning by:
- investigating how human activities affect features of the landscape
Linking science with literacy
In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Up, down and all around, students represent and explain their understanding about how observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, by creating these representations:
- Data table
- Word wall
- Venn diagram
- Poster
- Flow chart
- Interview