Year 4 Science helps students understand habitats, forces and materials in a more structured way. The focus is on linking scientific ideas to real Australian examples.

Key Topics Covered:

Food chains and habitats, the water cycle, friction, gravity and magnetic forces, and properties of materials.

Parent Tip:

Talk about everyday examples like cooking, rain or a game of footy to make concepts stick.

Explain food chains and the roles in a habitat

Describe the water cycle

Identify friction, gravity and magnetic forces and their effects

Compare materials and how their properties suit their uses

Apply science to everyday situations

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No.	Topic	What We Cover
01	Living and Non-living Things	Observe and sort things in your surroundings as living or non-living, using characteristics such as growth, reproduction and response to the environment.
02	Habitats and Ecosystems	Explore Australian habitats such as rainforests, deserts and the Great Barrier Reef and how living things depend on their environment.
03	Producers, Consumers and Decomposers	Classify living things by how they get energy and explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers in a habitat.
04	Food Chains and Feeding Relationships	Build and read simple food chains, such as grass, kangaroo and eagle, to show feeding relationships and energy flow.
05	Impact on Food Chains	Investigate how removing or adding a species, such as introduced cane toads, changes a food chain and the balance of an ecosystem.
06	First Nations Perspectives on the Environment	Learn how First Nations Australians see themselves as part of the environment and have cared for Country sustainably for thousands of years.
07	Asking Scientific Questions	Pose questions based on observations and spot patterns and relationships in nature.
08	Planning Investigations: Fair Testing	Use a scaffold to plan a simple investigation, name the variables and see why a test must be fair.
09	Observing and Recording Data	Make careful observations with scaled instruments and record findings in tables.
10	Representing Data	Organise data in tables, simple column graphs and models to spot patterns and relationships.

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Warm-up (5 min)

Quick review of the previous session and a what do you notice question

Core Teaching (25 min)

New idea from the lesson eBook, with demonstrations and examples

Guided Practice (15 min)

Student explores a simple investigation with tutor support

Independent Practice (10 min)

Student completes the in-class quiz independently

Wrap-up (5 min)

Summary, 2 take-home quizzes and a preview of the next session

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No.	Topic	What We Cover
11	Sources of Water	Identify sources of water, including rain, rivers, dams and underground water such as the Great Artesian Basin.
12	Water in Three States	Review solid, liquid and gas water and see where each appears in the water cycle.
13	Evaporation	Investigate how heat turns liquid water into water vapour and where the water goes.
14	Condensation and Clouds	Discover how water vapour cools and condenses to form clouds, dew and fog.
15	Precipitation	Explore how rain, hail and other precipitation fall from clouds and return water to the land.
16	The Water Cycle Together	Trace water through the sky, landscape and ocean and describe each stage of the cycle.
17	Water in the Australian Landscape	Explore rivers, floods and droughts, including the Murray-Darling river system, and how rainfall varies across Australia.
18	Using Water Wisely	Consider how people use scientific explanations to save water at home, school and on farms.
19	Modelling the Water Cycle	Draw and build models of the water cycle and use them to explain what happens.
20	Investigating Evaporation	Plan a fair test to compare how fast water evaporates in different conditions and record the results.

No.	Topic	What We Cover
21	Forces: Pushes and Pulls	Identify forces as pushes and pulls exerted by one object on another and describe their effects on movement.
22	Friction	Discover how friction acts between surfaces and slows or stops moving objects.
23	Investigating Friction	Plan and run a fair test comparing how far objects slide on different surfaces.
24	Gravity	Explore gravity as the force that pulls objects towards Earth and investigate how objects fall.
25	Magnetic Forces	Investigate how magnets act on objects from a distance and which materials are attracted.
26	Attract and Repel	Explore how magnet poles attract and repel and how the strength of a magnet changes the effect.
27	Measuring Forces	Use scaled instruments such as spring scales to measure forces and record results.
28	Forces in Sport and Play	Explain forces in cricket, football and playground games, such as friction on a ball and gravity on a jump.
29	Forces and Safety	Consider how scientific explanations of forces help people stay safe, such as seatbelts and helmets.
30	Comparing Findings: Forces	Compare results with predictions and with others, judge whether tests were fair and suggest further questions.

No.	Topic	What We Cover
31	Natural and Made Materials	Sort materials into natural and made and describe where they come from.
32	Fibres: Wool, Cotton and Synthetics	Compare the properties of natural and made fibres, including Australian wool, and how those properties suit clothing.
33	Metals	Examine properties of metals such as strength and conductivity and link them to uses.
34	Glass	Examine the properties of glass, including transparency and brittleness, and why it suits windows and containers.
35	Plastics	Compare the properties of plastics and how they influence what plastics are used for.
36	Properties and Uses	Match materials to jobs by thinking about their properties and explain the choice.
37	Testing Material Properties	Plan a fair test to compare materials, for example how well they absorb water or resist bending.
38	Recycling and Using Materials Wisely	Consider how people use science to reuse and recycle materials and reduce waste.
39	Communicating Findings	Write, draw and present investigation findings using scientific vocabulary.
40	Year 4 Review and Year 5 Readiness	Revise the year's science and preview Year 5 topics.

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