VC2S6H01
Parents start here
By the end of Levels 5 and 6: your child knows science can change with new evidence.
- Give an example of a scientific idea that changed when new evidence was found — e.g. people once thought the Sun orbited the Earth
- Explain that scientists update their ideas when experiments give unexpected results, and that this is a strength not a weakness
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).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in Science, Levels 5 and 6. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — Science ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — ✓ marks codes where Victoria kept the national numbering; all correspondences are machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others
examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others
investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
1 other candidate match — 1 medium
medium confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science as a Human Endeavour strand (Levels 5 and 6):
VC2S6H02
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.