AC9S6U02
Parents start here
By the end of Year 6: your child knows the sun does not really move across the sky.
- Explain that the Earth rotates (spins) on its axis once every 24 hours
- Describe how this rotation causes day (facing the sun) and night (facing away)
One skill from the map, ages 9–11 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
“describe the movement of Earth and other planets relative to the sun and model how Earth’s tilt, rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun relate to cyclic observable phenomena, including variable day and night length”
Official source: Australian Curriculum v9 — Science ↗ · Content © ACARA, CC BY 4.0 · unofficial reference — verify at the official site
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence1 skill
15 other candidate matches — 6 medium, 9 low
medium confidence
The solar system
Shadows
Sun-Driven Weather Systems
Changing Ideas About Space
Finding Exoplanets
Why We Have Seasons
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science understanding strand:
AC9S6U01AC9S6U03AC9S6U04
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.