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Source register and fact boundariesYear 4 Science · T1 W7–8 · References / Primary reading

Date reviewed:9October 2026. “Reviewed” is not a publication/update date.

N1 · Australian Curriculum Version 9 workbook

ACARA

Actual retrieval: Whole96 normalized meanings and481 present raw cells in fixed prior selection, personally read. Historical29September 2026 snapshot; inherited9October 2026 acquisition reports exact same workbook body. No new Root workbook download/parse.

Supports/limits: All twelve national core descriptors, all selected context/elaborations and full achievement standard.

Reuse: Covered curriculum CC BY4.0 subject to item exclusions/ICIP; attribution below.

Q1 · Year 4 Science achievement-standard/content alignment

QCAA

Actual retrieval: Complete current1-page PDF read 9October 2026. Copyright2023; no publication-month claim added.

Supports/limits: National/QLD mapping; not full-year attainment.

Reuse: ©State of Queensland (QCAA) 2023; covered content CC BY4.0, exclusions apply.

Q2 · Year 4 Science standard elaborations

QCAA

Actual retrieval: Complete current5-page PDF read 9October 2026; document November 2023.

Supports/limits: On-balance folio judgment and actual achievement boundaries.

Reuse: ©State of Queensland (QCAA) 2023; covered content CC BY4.0, exclusions apply.

Q3 · Years 3–4 Science suggested assessment conditions

QCAA

Actual retrieval: Complete current3-page PDF, including previously recovered tail, read 9October 2026; document October 2023.

Supports/limits: Task/adjustment choices; neither a mandated local test nor invented actual performance.

Reuse: ©State of Queensland (QCAA) 2023; covered content CC BY4.0, exclusions apply.

B1 · Curious Kids: where do clouds come from?

Bureau of Meteorology

Actual retrieval: Whole primary page read 9October 2026; published13September 2018. Third-party images/TheConversation republication identified.

Supports/limits: F1/F2: invisible vapour; cloud droplets/ice; source-bound elementary state meanings.

Reuse: Link and factual original paraphrase only; no article/diagram/photo copied; no blanket image licence.

U1 · Evaporation and the Water Cycle

USGS Water Science School

Actual retrieval: Official indexed substantive body sections retrieved9October 2026, dated8June 2019. Direct wholepage opens timed out.

Supports/limits: F1: liquid-to-gas evaporation; not boiling-only.

Reuse: Original factual explanation only; no USGS diagram/photo or copied activity.

U2 · Condensation and the Water Cycle

USGS Water Science School

Actual retrieval: Official indexed substantive body sections retrieved9October 2026, dated8June 2019. Direct wholepage opens timed out.

Supports/limits: F2: vapour-to-liquid droplets and surface examples.

Reuse: Original factual explanation only; no USGS diagram/photo or copied activity.

U3 · Precipitation and the Water Cycle

USGS Water Science School

Actual retrieval: Official indexed substantive body sections retrieved9October 2026, dated8September 2019. Direct wholepage opens timed out.

Supports/limits: F3: falling cloud water, liquid/ice forms.

Reuse: Original factual explanation only; no USGS diagram/photo or copied activity.

U4 · Water-cycle beginning activity page

USGS Water Science School

Actual retrieval: Official indexed source retrieved9October 2026; no full wholepage/video claim.

Supports/limits: F4: no required fixed starting point in the cycle.

Reuse: No activity/design copied; original branching task and cards.

S1 · Water and weather

Science Learning Hub, University of Waikato

Actual retrieval: Whole primary research-education page read 9October 2026; published2June 2009. Linked video clips/transcripts not played/read.

Supports/limits: Cross-check narrow F1/F2/F3 elementary changes only. Exclude source's mistaken eccentricity/tilt equivalence and simplistic cloud-bag interpretation.

Reuse: Noncommercial education terms reviewed; no image/video/activity/text copied into this resource.

L1 · Learn about Water Infrastructure

Rockhampton Regional Council / Fitzroy River Water

Actual retrieval: Official indexed substantive source sections retrieved9October 2026. Direct page previously403; no fullpage-read claim. Publication/update date not stated in retrieved section.

Supports/limits: F5: Barrage source → Glenmore treatment plant → Rockhampton/Gracemere public supply example. No household/current quality/capacity/users claim.

Reuse: Narrow original fact card and source link only; no council images/text/licence invented.

L2 · Environment & Compliance

Rockhampton Regional Council / Fitzroy River Water

Actual retrieval: Official indexed source sections retrieved9October 2026; not a complete wholepage reading.

Supports/limits: Cross-check F5 intake/source relationship; not a current individual water-quality result.

Reuse: Original factual reference only; no third-party asset reuse.

Factual anchors

F1

Liquid water can change to invisible water vapour by evaporation; boiling is not required.

Sources: B1, U1, S1

Limit: General process fact; does not establish how much/time or cause of a particular puddle loss.

F2

Condensation changes vapour into liquid droplets; clouds can include droplets and/or ice, distinct from invisible vapour.

Sources: B1, U2, S1

Limit: General process fact; a wet container alone does not prove condensation ruled out all other causes.

F3

Precipitation is water falling from clouds in forms such as rain, snow or hail.

Sources: U3, B1

Limit: General process; not rain from a cup or a cloud bursting bag/timetable.

F4

Water can follow multiple paths among sky, landscape and ocean; a selected simple model has no fixed beginning or forecast.

Sources: N1, U4

Limit: Selected model links are not an exhaustive water-budget or weather model.

F5

Council names the Barrage source for Glenmore plant in the Rockhampton/Gracemere supply example.

Sources: L1, L2

Limit: Narrow published system fact with indexed retrieval; no household quality/connection or capacity/count claim.

Failures retained

USGS wholepage opens timed out and Council direct page returned 403; narrow facts use actually retrieved official indexed sections. No wholepage/video/current live classroom result is implied. Old guessed Bureau/GeoscienceAustralia/Hub URLs failed and are not used. The Council Barrage fact sheet contains conflicting capacity and user counts, so no such figures are included. The Waikato article's eccentricity/tilt wording is excluded. Nobody copied article imagery, a video, the official model graphic or third-party photographs.

This author independently checked current whole QCAA guidance/operative ACARA and QCAA terms plus narrow factual sources on 9 October 2026. Original proposal retrieval limits remain unchanged. No provider image, activity, dataset or text passage is imported. Full credits and terms.