Why seasons change
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year, noticing longer days in summer and shorter days in winter
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Try this together
Has your child noticed that it's still light at bedtime in summer but dark much earlier in winter, and can they explain this pattern?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life
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.