All students at Tinternvale Primary School participate in science for one hour each week. We have a dedicated science teacher and lessons are held in our science lab with a range of hands-on resources.
Each week students develop their content knowledge and are exposed to a variety of opportunities to develop their listening, teamwork, communication, reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking skills. Students engage in a range of written, ICT, verbal and hands on experiences individually and in groups, indoors and outdoors. Tinternvale is committed to ensuring students are at the centre of the learning to foster their natural curiosity of the world and enable them to enjoy the experience of making new discoveries. There is a focus on hands on learning where students learn by ‘doing’ and are active participants in their learning journey. This enables them ta engage their senses to create better understandings and implement higher level thinking. Students are involved in investigations, experiments and observations to pose and answer questions about the world around them.
All year levels cover the Victorian Curriculum five key topics including Science as a human endeavour, Chemical, Biological, Earth and Space and Physical Science.
Students focus on understanding the Earth’s resources and how they change over time. They also study the observable changes in the sky, how the weather impacts our daily lives, the role of the earth’s rotations causing day and night, and earth’s part in the Solar System.
Students investigate how objects are made of materials and their observable properties and how they can be combined for various purposes. Students also study States of Matter (Solid, Liquid and Gas) and their observable properties and behaviours. They investigate how adding or removing heat causes changes between states of matter.
Students investigate how objects move because of push and pull, force and gravity. They also study how light and sounds are produced and sensed. Students also learn how energy is generated and transferred.
Students understand the difference between living and non-living organisms. Using microscopes, specimens, x-rays and ICT students study the needs of living things and the features and adaptions which are essential for their survival.
