Science | Year 1
Describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life
• making and recording observations of phenomena such as changes to weather, seasonal changes to plants such as colour or dropping of leaves, and growth of flowers or fruit
• noticing how daily weather indicators and seasonal patterns help us to make plans for activities in our daily lives
• investigating how seasonal changes affect plants and animals, including animals that hibernate and migrate
• investigating how changes in the weather affect plants and animals, including humans
• exploring how people make clothing choices using predictions of weather or knowledge of seasonal changes
• recognising the extensive knowledges of daily and seasonal changes in weather patterns and landscape held by First Nations Australians
• exploring how First Nations Australians’ concepts of time and weather patterns explain how things happen in the world around them
• We are learning about the importance of rain for people, animals, and the environment in the outback of Australia.
• We are learning how rainy weather affects plants, animals, and people.
• We are learning to observe how clouds change shape and move in the sky.