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• 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

• 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

• 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