FREE PRIMARY SCIENCE · Years 5–6

Changing Earth and sky

How does Earth’s surface change, and how does the Sun seem to move?

Three iPad lessons with no materials. Students sort fast and slow changes to Earth’s surface, run fair tests on an erosion table, then use shadow data to explain day and night.

3 free lessons · Australian Curriculum v9

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1. Fast or slow?

   Which changes to Earth’s surface happen fast, and which happen slowly?

   No materials needed · AC9S5U02, AC9S5I04

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2. Erosion table

   What makes soil wash away?

   No materials needed · AC9S5U02, AC9S5I02

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3. Sun and shadows

   How do shadows change during the day, and why?

   No materials needed · AC9S6U02, AC9S6I04

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