Curriculum+Level+2+Science

=Curriculum levels= = = =Levels One and Two Science=

Nature of Science
Students will:

Understanding about science
• Appreciate that scientists ask questions about our world that lead to investigations and that open-mindedness is important because there may be more than one explanation.

Investigating in science
• Extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.

Communicating in science
• Build their language and develop their understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.

Participating and contributing
• Explore and act on issues and questions that link their science learning to their daily living.

Living World
Students will:

Life processes
• Recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive.

Ecology
• Recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat.

Evolution
• Recognise that there are lots of different living things in the world and that they can be grouped in different ways. • Explain how we know that some living things from the past are now extinct.

Planet Earth and Beyond
Students will:

Earth systems
• Explore and describe natural features and resources.

Interacting systems
• Describe how natural features are changed and resources affected by natural events and human actions.

Astronomical systems
• Share ideas and observations about the Sun and the Moon and their physical effects on the heat and light available to Earth.

Physical World
Students will:

Physical inquiry and physics concepts
• Explore everyday examples of physical phenomena, such as movement, forces, electricity and magnetism, light, sound, waves, and heat. • Seek and describe simple patterns in physical phenomena.

Material World
Students will:

Properties and changes of matter
• Observe, describe, and compare physical and chemical properties of common materials and changes that occur when materials are mixed, heated, or cooled.

Chemistry and society
• Find out about the uses of common materials and relate these to their observed properties.