Light & Seeing in the Dark
Your child knows we need light to see. In a fully dark room, we see nothing. Switch on a torch, and the light lets us see the objects.
In curriculum terms
Observe that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated by a light source
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If you go into a completely dark room with your child, can they explain why they can't see anything until a torch is switched on?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).