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• Science: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students can identify some familiar objects. They actively explore the properties of familiar objects and deliberately initiate a cause to achieve the expected effect. In structured situations, teachers assist the student to record observations of the weather, familiar objects...

  Level description | Science | Level B

• Science: Level B description

  In Level B, students play and use structured activities to make observations and use their senses to investigate the behaviours and properties of everyday objects, materials and living things. They explore change in the world around them, including changes that impact on them, for example the...

  Level description | Science

• VCSIS019

  Supported to make links between causes and effects

  Elaborations

  • pointing to the body parts that are used to taste, smell, see, touch and hear
  • recognising what will happen next when using a familiar cause-and-effect activity, for example, deliberatively activating the effect, pointing to the effect

  VCSIS019 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Analysing and evaluating

• VCSIS017

  Explore using their senses

  Elaborations

  • beginning to use their senses, with teacher guidance, to explore and describe the world around them by tasting, smelling, seeing, touching and hearing
  • interacting with living things and objects, with teacher guidance, for example, comparing the textures of different animal coats, listening to different bird calls, comparing shapes and sizes of different containers

  VCSIS017 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Planning and conducting

• VCSIS018

  Use ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response, pictures, photos and concrete objects to demonstrate their findings

  Elaborations

  • exploring the effects that simple physical actions have on everyday objects
  • exploring and investigating basic cause-and-effect software and activities, for example, hitting a switch, dropping an object, letting go of an object on an incline, feeding an animal

  VCSIS018 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Recording and processing

• VCSIS020

  Respond to language used to label and describe properties and begin to identify familiar objects

  Elaborations

  • answering using a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response to questions relating to a focus characteristic of an explored material
  • responding to language used to label and describe properties such as colour, texture and taste
  • beginning to identify familiar products, for example, dog, apple, milk, toy

  VCSIS020 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Communicating

• VCSIS016

  Engage in simple cause-and-effect exploration

  Elaborations

  • touching, pushing, dropping, mixing objects to see what happens to them
  • using cause-and-effect games, programs and toys

  VCSIS016 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Questioning and predicting

• VCSSU012

  Living things can look and feel different

  Elaborations

  • handling and observing living and non-living things
  • developing an emerging awareness of some essential characteristics of living things, for example, 'Eyes are for seeing’

  VCSSU012 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Biological sciences

• VCSSU014

  The weather and time of day can change

  Elaborations

  • identifying the characteristics of day and night, for example, morning, evening, sun, moon, stars, sunrise, sunset
  • answering with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response to questions related to changes in the weather, for example, ‘Is the weather today different from yesterday?’, ‘Do you think the weather will change after lunch?’

  VCSSU014 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCSSU015

  Objects can be changed and manipulated

  Elaborations

  • exploring the effects that simple physical actions have on everyday objects, for example, pushing a toy car to make it move, letting go of an inflated balloon, dropping a ball
  • investigating how objects can change shape, for example, by squeezing, tearing, twisting, pulling, dropping

  VCSSU015 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• VCSSU011

  Objects and the world around us can be explored

  Elaborations

  • manipulating a variety of materials to explore their characteristics, for example, sensory tubs filled with pasta, feathers, water, pebbles
  • observing what happens when materials are mixed, manipulated, moved and changed

  VCSSU011 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Science as a human endeavour

• VCSSU013

  Objects can be the same or different and can look and feel different

  Elaborations

  • mixing and playing with various materials, for example, using sand and water to build sandcastles, or pouring water onto a sandy footpath to make a water track
  • exploring and manipulating variety of materials in structured and unstructured activities

  VCSSU013 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Chemical sciences