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Earth Is Made of Rock

Your child knows the Earth is made of rock and other solid stuff. The ground under our feet is rock. A stone in the garden is a small piece of it.

In curriculum terms

Understand that Earth is made of rock and other solid materials

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

If your child picks up a stone in the garden, can they tell you that the whole Earth is made of rock and other materials like that stone?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Nothing on the map comes before this — it’s a starting point.
Earth Is Made of Rockthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Earth's Layersages 7–9Earth's layers builds on knowing Earth is made of rock
Types of Rockages 7–9Rock types build on knowing Earth is made of rock

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S3U02medium confidenceYear 3 · Science understanding

compare the observable properties of soils, rocks and minerals and investigate why they are important Earth resources

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S4U06medium confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Understanding 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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