Level 5 - Level 6

Science Understanding

• Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives (VCSSU073)
• Solids, liquids and gases behave in different ways and have observable properties that help to classify them (VCSSU076)
• Changes to materials can be reversible, including melting, freezing, evaporating, or irreversible, including burning and rusting (VCSSU077)
• Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted (VCSSU080)
• Energy from a variety of sources can be used to generate electricity; electric circuits enable this energy to be transferred to another place and then to be transformed into another form of energy (VCSSU081)

Science Inquiry Skills

• With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules (VCSIS082)
• With guidance, plan appropriate investigation types to answer questions or solve problems and use equipment, technologies and materials safely, identifying potential risks (VCSIS083)
• Decide which variables should be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests and accurately observe, measure and record data (VCSIS084)
• Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations (VCSIS086)
• Suggest improvements to the methods used to investigate a question or solve a problem (VCSIS087)
• Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships (VCSIS088)

Technologies Contexts

• Investigate how forces or electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system (VCDSTC034)
• Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment and evaluate the impact of their use (VCDSTC037)

Creating Designed Solutions

• Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions(VCDSCD038)
• Generate, develop, communicate and document design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (VCDSCD039)
• Apply safe procedures when using a variety of materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions(VCDSCD040)
• Negotiate criteria for success that include consideration of environmental and social sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (VCDSCD041)
• Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions(VCDSCD042)

Digital Systems

• Examine the main components of common digital systems, and how such digital systems may connect together to form networks to transmit data(VCDTDS026)

Data and Information

• Examine how whole numbers are used as the basis for representing all types of data in digital systems(VCDTDI027)

Creating Digital Solutions

• Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements, drawing on previously solved problems to identify similarities (VCDTCD030)
• Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration(VCDTCD032)
• Develop digital solutions as simple visual programs(VCDTCD033)

Number and Algebra

• Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems(VCMNA185)

Measurement and Geometry

• Choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass (VCMMG195)
• Calculate the perimeter and area of rectangles and the volume and capacity of prisms using familiar metric units (VCMMG196)
• Estimate, measure and compare angles using degrees. Construct angles using a protractor(VCMMG202)
• Connect decimal representations to the metric system(VCMMG222)
• Convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity (VCMMG223)
• Solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units (VCMMG224)