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Indigenous Spinning Tops – CLE

Publication Date: November, 2016

Type of Resource: Practical activity/investigation

This Connected Learning Experience explores forces in an Indigenous context.

Description: In this investigation younger students explore how push/pull forces can be applied to make an object move in the context of spinning tops. They observe characteristics of successful spinners and notice how a force is applied to set them in motion or to make them stop.

Learning intentions

Students will be able to:

ask questions about and describe changes to objects and materials
identify examples of where science is used in people’s daily lives
predict outcomes of investigations
use informal measurements to make and compare observations with those of others
record and represent observations and communicate ideas in a variety of ways
use discussion to sort information and compare ideas.

New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)

Additional Information

A Connected Learning Experience (CLE) is a resource package designed to support the use of inquiry investigations in the classroom.

Each CLE may not encompass all the concepts and skills addressed in the specific content descriptions outlined by the Australian Curriculum: Science for that Year level. The Learning Intentions clearly define the aims and objectives of the CLE.

Year 2 Achievement Standard

This lesson sequence provides opportunities to gather information about students’ achievement of specific components in the standards (which are bolded in the statements below).

"By the end of Year 2

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