Learning Map
ScienceScientific Inquiryusually ages 6–8

Changing Your Mind with Evidence

Be willing to change your mind when evidence doesn't support your prediction — a result that surprises you is more valuable than one that confirms what you already thought

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If your child predicts what will happen in an experiment and gets a different result, do they accept the evidence rather than deciding the experiment must have gone wrong?

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Builds on
Observation vs Interpretationages 6–7Being willing to revise a hypothesis requires first distinguishing observation from interpretation — you can only update your interpretation if you recognise it as separate from the data
Learning from Mistakesages 8–9Changing your mind when evidence contradicts your prediction is the science form of the universal error-analysis habit — treating surprises as information rather than failures
Changing Your Mind with Evidencethis skill · ages 6–8
Unlocks
Could there be another explanation?ages 7–9Actively seeking alternative explanations requires first having the habit of not defending your original interpretation against the evidence

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S2I05low confidenceYear 2 · Science inquiry

compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance

AC9S1I05low confidenceYear 1 · Science inquiry

compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance

AC9S3I05low confidenceYear 3 · Science inquiry

compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S4I01low confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Inquiry strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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Observation vs Interpretationages 6–7 Asking scientific questionsages 5–8 Classifying living thingsages 7–9 Comparing Design Solutionsages 5–8

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