Year one
Students in year one discover chemical science by manipulating materials …show more content…
• Recognises the connection between children’s families and focus on the importance of relationships for learning.
• Focuses on making a connection to the environment between people, plants, animals and the land.
• Engaging students in the outdoors can foster learning as they explore the world around them. This allows children to participate with others and develop relationships (DEEWR, 2009).
Responsiveness to children
• Educators recognise and value children’s strengths, abilities, and interests and build on skills and knowledge through learning.
• Educators recognise children’s cultural traditions, languages and additional needs to their everyday lives.
• Extend children’s learning by open-ended questioning, feedback, challenging their thinking and guide their learning.
• Responsiveness to children can be adapted to children’s learning by the educator developing activities that build on their interests to provoke learning. This challenges children’s thinking and ideas (DEEWR,