Biology F-6 (priority)

In Lessons 1 to 10 students learn about:

describing the objects in the sky during the day and at night and representing day and night on a model of a globe.
describing the Sun and observing its position through the day and night.
describing the features of the night sky and how they reflect the Sun’s light at night so we can see them.
recording and explaining how Indigenous Australians use the sky.
identifying the different constellations in the sky and making a model of a feature of the night sky – a constellation.
identifying different types of extreme weather and analysing an extreme weather.
describing and identifying the features of landscapes.
planning a daytime and night-time poster of a landscape.
representing a daytime and night-time landscape by drawing a poster.

Progress Tests

Progress Tests are conducted after every second lesson, allowing teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past two lessons and to identify where reteaching is needed.

The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions, and the Student Workbook has a section where students write their answers and score themselves.

Structured Research Activity

The Structured Research Activity (SRA) for this unit is:

Students create and present a poster to show changes in daytime and night-time landscapes.

The SRA takes place over two lessons so students can apply the Science Understanding and Science Inquiry Skills covered in the unit.

Teachers use the Guide to Making Judgements, which is included in the Teaching Guide, to mark the SRA.

End-of-Unit Assessment

The last lesson is the End-of-Unit Assessment, which has a variety of question formats (e.g. label the diagram, circle the correct answer) to assess student mastery of content from the unit.

The End-of-Unit Assessment is in the Teaching Guide. Teachers copy the assessment and distribute to students at testing time.