Year 5 Science · Term 1 Weeks 5–6 · ten flexible starts, Days 21–30.
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Choose a pretend shadow-picture, a message for a willing reader, or a light question for its own sake. Use a familiar, locally approved gentle lamp/torch, a broad opaque card and a pale page or screen. An adult can hold or position everything. Before discussing diagrams, invite one actual shadow observation: “What do you notice? What would you like to change?” Notice what the learner actually sees and chooses. An unclear shadow is a useful result too.
No lamp available or wanted? Begin with the supplied idea model, an exact spoken description, or an own question. This is a complete planning/source-response route; actual apparatus/observation components stay open. Keep a usual communication support available. No purchase, dark room, standing, grasp, public sharing or home trial required.
Pick a useful next step
| Days | Practical work |
|---|---|
| 21–24 | Encounter a shadow, name the source/blocker/screen, make a straight-path model and choose a one-variable comparison. |
| 25 | New held C: own question/prediction/plan first; optional further actual work later. |
| 26–29 | Repeat when useful, record available results, try a new variable, consider limits and make/revise the chosen shadow design. |
| 30 | New held D: revise a different unperformed comparison plan; optional next component/later sitting. |
Teacher scripts · preparation · learner cards · 30 participation routes · 20 worked contexts · ten free home offers and ten extras · eight print aids and exact alternatives.
The 25-minute clock is a suggested start, not a completion test. Select, repeat, split or pause. Own questions and imperfect/inconclusive actual results are welcome. Do not require a numerical ideal projection, completed artwork, all choices, handwriting or speed to participate.
Educator scope and first responses
An ideal point-source diagram uses arbitrary model units. A real lamp can have an extended source, ambient light and unclear edges; its result is not promised to equal a diagram. This pack supplies no actual experiment or learner observation. An adult trial, a learner observation of that trial, learner equipment operation, secondary-source information and a plan each have their own attribution. Paper alone does not establish actual inquiry or equipment use.
Fresh learner briefs C/D are separate from the teacher key/rubric/next moves and generator model data. Give only the learner brief for first capture; retain source access/help honestly. An unfinished response is not yet observed: offer another short sitting; no completion-speed score. Capture one meaningful component before any optional next task or explanatory example.
Exact Year 5 crosswalk · source/rights/local review · actual QA and portable reproduction · bound files. Partial national Year 5 and Queensland guidance opportunities; not a complete code, standard, year, school-day allocation or all-state programme. Author/computer/desk checks are not a classroom pilot or evidence of benefit.
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