Earth & Space Sciences Year 1 Assessment: Rainbow Rain

Years

1

Pages

15

Assessment, Resource

Description

Support your Year 1 students in the Earth & Space Sciences: All About the Weather unit of work with our engaging and purposeful assessment task, Weather Watchers: Rainbow Rain.

 

Tailored to the Year 1 Earth & Space Sciences Australian Curriculum, this activity will provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of daily and seasonal changes in the environment. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the Science Inquiry as they predict, observe and analyse.

 

Students will use shaving cream and coloured water to provide a basic demonstration of how rain clouds behave. From preparing their ‘rain cloud’ to dropping in the ‘rain drops’, students will be part of the entire process.

 

The included experiment writeup will challenge students to make predictions, record observations and streamline their thoughts into cohesive concluding statements. The completed writeups will provide high quality evidence for assessment, comprehensively demonstrating your students’ current level of understanding.

 

Detailed instructions have been included with the task to make the completion of the Rainbow Rain experiment as seamless as possible.

 

In addition to the printable resources, you will need to provide: clear plastic cups or jars, shaving cream, assorted food colouring, water, small bowls and pipettes or droppers.

 

This resource is part of our Year 1 Earth & Space Sciences: All About the Weather UNIT PLAN.

 

It’s time to make rainbow rain!

Additional information

Number of Pages

15

File Format

pdf

Australian Curriculum Code

AC9S1I01, AC9S1I02, AC9S1I03, AC9S1I04, AC9S1I05, AC9S1I06, AC9S1U02

Australian Curriculum V9

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