Day and night in Year 1, and the Earth as a planet under a changing sky of Sun, Moon, planets and stars in Year 2. Foundation science in v9 has no space content, so the cards start in Year 1.
Curriculum links last reviewed November 2026.
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
describe how day turns into night, and how day and night change what we do.
Put the tracker on the board and find Australia. Is it on the day side or the night side? Point to a country where children are asleep right now. Students draw one thing they do in the day and one thing they do at night.
A live 3D Moon, lit the way it is right now.
spot the pattern in the Moon's changing shape, and use it to predict what the Moon will look like tomorrow.
Show today's Moon on the globe and draw it together. Is the lit part getting bigger or smaller? Predict tomorrow's Moon, then check the globe the next day. Start the Moon diary to keep the pattern going for a week.
When the space station passes over your town, to the minute, and where to look.
watch a satellite move across the sky, and describe how its position changes.
Find the next evening pass for your town and send the time home. With a grown-up, watch the station cross the sky: it looks like a bright star moving steadily, with no flashing lights. Next day, draw where it started and where it ended.
How to tell a plane, a planet, a satellite and a star apart.
tell the Sun, the Moon, planets and stars apart, and describe where each one appears in the sky.
Look at the guide together and sort pictures into the Sun, the Moon, planets and stars. Which ones can we see in the daytime? Which one should we never look at directly?
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Australian Curriculum codes are content descriptions, for example AC9S7U03. NSW syllabus outcomes are a second tag, for example SC4-OTU-01. Victoria and Western Australia have their own codes: the activities still fit.
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