Light & Sound Vocabulary
Your child can describe how light acts. They can say if a material is see-through, blurry, or blocks light. They know an opaque object makes a shadow.
In curriculum terms
Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply these terms correctly when describing observations about how light travels and how sounds are made and changed
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If you held up a piece of frosted glass, could your child say whether it's transparent, translucent, or opaque — and explain what that word means?
Where this sits on the map
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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 · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explore different actions to make sounds and how to make a variety of sounds, and recognise that sound energy causes objects to vibrate
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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.