How can you tell they’ve got it: Local weather patterns?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Observe and record daily weather conditions (temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, wind); Identify patterns in weather data over days or weeks; Use observations to make simple predictions about upcoming weather. Or just try it together: Has your child kept a weather diary for a week or more, recording whether it was sunny, rainy, or windy, and noticed any patterns?

Science Earth's Systems Ages 5–6

Local weather patterns

Your child can watch the weather and record it each day — sun, rain, wind. They can spot patterns over a week and make a simple guess about tomorrow.

In curriculum terms

Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Observe and record daily weather conditions (temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, wind)
Identify patterns in weather data over days or weeks
Use observations to make simple predictions about upcoming weather

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Try this together

Has your child kept a weather diary for a week or more, recording whether it was sunny, rainy, or windy, and noticed any patterns?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Seasonal changesages 5–6Must observe seasonal changes before recording weather patterns systematically

Days, Weeks, Months & Yearsages 5–6Recording local weather conditions over time requires vocabulary for days, weeks, and months

Local weather patternsthis skill · ages 5–6

Unlocks

Seasonal changesages 8–9Must record weather observations before organising data in tables and graphs for seasonal patterns

Using Weather Instrumentsages 7–9Measuring weather parallels curriculum observing/recording local weather

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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 · 1 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S1U02low confidenceYear 1 · Science understanding

describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

ST1-DAT-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U07medium confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

VC2S2I04low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Inquiry strand

VC2S2H02low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science as a Human Endeavour 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.

Nearby on the map

How Organisms Shape Habitatsages 5–6 Seasonal changesages 5–6 Evaporation and condensationages 7–9 How fossils formages 7–8

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