Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 Year 5 Science Unit Bundle

Ready to get yourself completely prepared for the year ahead? Look no further Year 5 teachers! This complete set of our ever popular Science units specifically aligned to the Australian Curriculum have everything you need to teach your students the content required.

This bundle includes the following:

- Year 5 States of Matter

- Year 5 Light

- Year 5 Adaptations

- Year 5 Our Solar System

These activities, assessment ideas and posters compliment all the following Australian Curriculum Year 5 Science content descriptors:

Biological Science:
- Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (ACSSU043)

Physical Science:

- Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted (ACSSU080)

Chemical Science:
- Solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways (ACSSU077)

Earth and Space Science:

- The Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun) (ACSSU078)

Topics covered in this bundle include:

Amazing Adaptations

- Defining Adaptations

- Structural and Behavioural Adaptations

- Different Adaptations

- Kangaroo Adaptations

- Bird Beak Experiment

- Plant Adaptations

- Leaf Investigation

- Research Task (Assessment)

- Design a Creature (Assessment)

Light

- What is light?

- How does light travel?

- How are shadows formed?

- Opaque, Translucent, Transparent

- Bouncing Light

- How are Rainbows Formed?

- Refraction

States of Matter

- States of Matter

- Particles

- Changing State Investigation: Jelly Making

- Changing State Investigation: Ice-Cream in a Bag

- Changing State Investigation: Soda Spider

- Changing State Investigation: Self-Inflated Balloon

- Assessment: Design an experiment

- Reflection Changing State Investigation: Slime Art

Our Solar System

- What is a Solar System?

- Features of our Solar System

- The importance of the Sun

- Aboriginal Astronomy

- Modelling our Solar System

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- Year 5&6 Health Unit Bundle

- Year 5 HASS Unit Bundle

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