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Twenty worked interest choicesFoundation Science · T4 W35–36 · Optional Practice

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Teacher examples, not required child scripts or assessment answers. They show different purposes, access, source limits, timing, interruption and communication. All actual tries use local approval; no physical outcome supplied here. Check-day examples stay held until first capture.

Day Worked choice 1 Worked choice 2
171 Puppet resting place. Child chooses a pretend puppet’s broad pad, asks “Will this edge change?” and names the actual safe visible edge. Possible response: “I want to watch this side.” Feedback: welcome the chosen feature; pretend rest does not prove real comfort. Folded banner. An adult shows a familiar broad cloth banner folded once. Child asks about its crease and says “The fold is a shape, not new cloth.” Feedback: source verifies cloth only; do not infer hidden fibres.
172 Quiet workshop. A child prefers watching an adult action silently. Prior idea “It may get lower”; actual side stays unclear because hand blocks it. Response: “I could not see that part.” Feedback: change the view or choose an adult report, not a guessed result. Self-controlled sense. Locally approved independent tactile exploration: child presses gently alone, lets go, safely explores the same feature. Response: “It feels different from before.” Feedback: preserve exact tactile words; do not translate them into invented visual height.
173 Large outline artist. Child makes one broad before outline and points to only its edge after an available try. Response: “This bit spread.” Feedback: the artefact represents the reported/directly encountered part; the unseen centre stays unknown. Museum material label. A fictional label identifies a cloth cover but does not identify filling. Child says “I know the labelled cover, not inside.” Feedback: separate reliable label fact from sensed softness; no invented composition breadth.
174 AAC observation crew. Child uses AAC to select SIDE, LOOK, STOP; adult positions a broad pad then acts alone. Response: chosen question/stop plus actual accessible look or attributed report. Feedback: preserve child decisions and adult contribution. Private story listener. No real object available. Adult reads complete NOTE; child asks “When did they look after letting go?” Feedback: named short conversation belongs to fictional source, not a local observation or fixed wait.
175 Post-check new question. AFTER first check capture only: child chooses an unrelated broad felt-like mat from a labelled fictional source and asks whether its corner changes during a proposed gentle press. Response open; actual try NOT TRIED. Feedback: material UNKNOWN unless verified, no rebound promise. Post-check original puppet. AFTER first check capture only: child draws a new tall or flat pretend resting place and chooses “I want to know what happens to its edge.” Feedback: actual child artefact, imaginary comfort/use and untried Science question stay distinct.
176 A conversation later. Actual group note says the side was observed after a short story, earlier moment missing. Child asks “What did it look like when the hand left?” Feedback: a useful new question; do not fill the missing moment from a later view. Finish is a choice. Child has one useful observation and prefers no second press. Response: “I want to keep this question.” Feedback: keep the child’s idea; no repeat quota or incomplete-grade penalty.
177 Same cloth, another fold. Two source notes show same verified cloth, one flat and one folded. Child says “The form changed; it may still be the same material.” Feedback: not an isolated material comparison; no full SFU03 composition claim. Slipped mat. An actual broad mat shifted in one optional try. Child says “This look changed place too.” Feedback: retain interruption; do not erase it to produce matched results or demand a replacement trial.
178 One row only. A group has only one source-bound actual row. Child says “This tells us that try; we have not got a repeated pattern.” Feedback: sufficient evidence depends on claim, not a compulsory count of three. Two-row model detective. Use only complete Day178 original fictional pair. Child identifies both released-side-above-pressed relations and says “In these two notes.” Feedback: bounded qualitative local pattern, not AB decoration or all cloth.
179 Willing helper. A child tells a willing adult “Look at this side before; if you press, look there again when you let go.” Adult response only recorded if it actually occurs. Feedback: child-owned observation purpose, no promised outcome. No audience plan. Child signs/directs a broad paper sequence for a fictional helper and keeps it private. Response: “Before, one gentle press if wanted, let go, notice.” Feedback: actual child-authored plan is valid; physical event/listener response remains untried/model.
180 Post-check open wonder. AFTER first check capture only: a new fictional broad cloth source has no release note. Child chooses “What happens after letting go?” Feedback: next question valid; missing result stays missing, no prescribed wait. Post-check accessible invitation. AFTER first check capture only: child makes a new no-touch invitation for a willing adult to describe a chosen broad pad edge. Response could request a before and later look. Feedback: actual adult report if supplied, child’s response separate; no mandatory touch or source.