Foundation / Queensland Prep · Science · Term 4 Weeks 35–36 · Days 171–180 · ten optional 25-minute sessions · 0.1.0-draft · 30 September 2026
Start here — one gentle try, your question
“What would you like to notice about this soft pad?” Choose one question, predict before the try, then notice its shape before, during one gentle press and after letting go. It might look or feel different, similar or unclear. A small change, an unexpected result or a new question is useful. There is no promised bounce-back result.
- An adult prepares one broad familiar locally approved cloth or existing soft pad on a stable mat. Preparation estimate 2–5 minutes, unmeasured, depending on local access and supplies. No purchase, folding by a child, filling, cutting, water or device needed.
- Ten short scripts put a child’s question and useful observation first. Thirty switchable routes offer direct accessible observation, child-directed adult action/report, and a complete original fictional model. No required touch, voice, audience or repeated full record.
- Twenty worked interest choices, ten home bridges, ten extensions and short read-alouds keep the choices open. One action or useful look is enough; a next try is optional.
- Eight broad original illustrated A4 pairs and exact linear/tactile alternatives show the invitation. Print only what helps, or describe the whole sequence without a printer. One small-group shared sketch or phrase, plus each child’s useful question/prediction/response/support as needed, is enough.
- Keep fresh AL/AM and the separate key held until the first response. Later short components are allowed. These two fictional source checks are not a term grade or a test of real material handling.
A folded cloth is still the same material. Knowing a pad’s name or feeling softness does not identify its hidden filling. SFU03 material/property sampling is partial; composition breadth remains open unless a real object or reliable source verifies different materials. No all-soft-material rule, elasticity rating, comfort promise or technical fair-test requirement.
No digital helper supplied: the three-stage broad aid and no-print route carry the whole activity. This choice reduces preparation and avoids a screen supplying an invented physical result.
Adult sources and limits
Materials separate a child’s direct sensory observation, an adult action the child actually observes, an attributed adult report and a complete model-only route. No person presses alongside a child’s tactile access. Exact current primary-source crosswalk, original source identities, rights, four-role desk review, read-only verifier and hash manifest set the limits. This is an unpiloted teacher draft, not a validated classroom outcome.
This new inquiry follows Science W33–34 without extending its roof/load comparison. It sits beside integrated W35 and W36: real listening and a checkable local observation pattern remain separate from fictional fairness, equal sharing and decorative repeats.
Original SubjectNest educational text and vectors © NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd 2026, CC BY 4.0. Credit SubjectNest, link the licence, indicate changes. Code Apache-2.0; DejaVu font licence included. Curriculum, third-party and community-held knowledge retain their own rights. Local materials, child/teacher/access review and actual willing participation remain human gates.
Portable reproduction
From the project root, use Python 3 with pypdf, DejaVu Sans installed, plus rsvg-convert and Poppler pdftotext/pdftoppm utilities. Installing dependencies is a local setup decision. The default audit writes nothing; it rebuilds print pairs and tries corruptions only in temporary directories.
python products/curriculum-studio/content/foundation/science/term-4/weeks-35-36/verify_pack.py
Authoring only: the generator replaces this pack’s print assets; --write-manifest refreshes its reviewed hashes after a deliberate change. Do not run either during a read-only review.