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ScienceWaves, Light & Soundusually ages 8–9

Pitch of Sounds

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it

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Can your child explain why a short guitar string makes a higher sound than a long one, or why a small drum sounds higher than a big one?

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Builds on
Light & Sound Vocabularyages 6–8Finding patterns in pitch requires 'pitch' vocabulary
Vibrations & Soundages 6–9Must understand vibrations make sound before finding pitch patterns
Pitch of Soundsthis skill · ages 8–9
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Curriculum alignment

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

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S2U02medium confidenceYear 2 · Science understanding

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

VC2S2U12medium confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · 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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