Taking Apart & Rebuilding
Observe that an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object, understanding that the pieces still exist
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If your child builds a tower with building bricks and then takes it apart to build a car, can they explain that the same bricks are used but arranged differently?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise that materials can be changed physically without changing their material composition and explore the effect of different actions on materials including bending, twisting, stretching and breaking into smaller pieces
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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.