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  YEAR 1 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS & PATTERNS ON EARTH

  • Year 1 PALMS Book

    The entire Year 1 PALMS book can be downloaded by clicking here (please note the loading time may be long).

  • PALMS 1 STEM Project

    The PALMS 1 STEM Project encourages students to explore their changing world. Students identify landscapes as natural, managed or constructed, observe the changing weather and discuss seasons, explore changes in the night sky and experiment with simple materials to create observable change. Finally, they may take on the longer project of creating a time capsule. This project comes with comprehensive notes in the Teacher's Guide (click here to download). Students are provided guidance and support in the Student Booklet (click here to download). We recommend introducing STEM and what STEM skills look like using our thought provoking activities (click here to download). 

  • Year 1 PALMS Package - by activity
    

    Activities can be accessed individually below.

  • Teacher Introduction_v2 File

    An introduction to the Year 1 package and its links to the Australian Curriculum.

  • Equipment List File

    A list of equipment needed for each activity within the PALMS 1 package. To assist you with planning and preparations.

  • Senses -Teacher’s Notes File

    Activities to introduce students to their senses. Student worksheets are available below.

  • Senses Words - Student Worksheet File
  • Using Your Senses - Student Worksheet File
  • Kim's Game - Teacher's Notes File

    A fun game to improve memory and observation skills.

  • Senses and Slime - PPP File

    The first PALMS Parent Power (PPP) activity for this series. This take home sheet updates parents and guardians on what their child has been doing in Science and suggests activities they may like to complete at home.

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  • Weather Words - Teacher's Notes File

    This activity introduces students to the vocabulary of weather. Student worksheet available below.

  • Weather Words - Student Worksheet File
  • Rain, Clouds and Rainbows - Teacher's Notes_v3 File

    This set of activities includes sensing rain, making rain and rain gauges, reading gauges, dressing appropriately for the weather, making clouds, making rainbows and testing guesses. Student worksheets are available below.

  • Rain and Senses - Student Worksheet File
  • Read a Rain Gauge - Student Worksheet File
  • Rainfall Graph - Student Worksheet File
  • Changes in Weather - Student Worksheet File
  • Testing Guesses - Student Worksheet File
  • Changes in Temperature - Teacher's Notes_v2 File

    These activities cover sensing temperature, temperature and smells and dressing for temperature. Student worksheets are available below.

  • Temperature and Senses - Student Worksheet File
  • Temperature and Smells - Student Worksheet File
  • Dressing for the Temperature - Student Worksheet_v2 File
  • Wind - Teacher's Notes_v2 File

    Activities include sensing wind and measuring wind (both direction and strength). A student worksheet is available below.

  • Wind and Senses - Student Worksheet File
  • Change in Wind - Student Worksheet File
  • Weather Reports - Teacher's Notes File

    Students use all they have learnt within this package, and equipment they have prepared, to produce their own weather reports. Student worksheets are available below.

  • Weather in the Sky - Student Worksheet File
  • Two Day Weather Report - Student Worksheet File
  • Build Your Own Weather Vane - PPP File

    In this second PALMS Parent Power (PPP) activity families are invited to produce their own weather vane.

  • Day and Night - Teacher's Notes_v2 File

    In this series of activities students explore vocabulary associated with day and night, appreciate music, create time wristbands (to map out their days) and act out a typical day. Student worksheets are available below.

  • Day and Night Words - Student Worksheet File
  • Day and Night Words - Part 2 - Student Worksheet File
  • Landscape Changes and Timescale - Teacher's Notes_v2 File

    These activities ask students to distinguish natural landscapes from managed and constructed, they also consider Aboriginal dreamtime and take part in some sandpit science. Student materials are available below.

  • Constructed Landscapes - Pictures File

    These pictures are also available in the folder below.

  • Managed Landscapes - Pictures File

    These pictures are also available in the folder below.

  • Natural Landscapes - Pictures File

    These pictures are also available in the folder below.

  • Short and Long Term Changes in Landscapes - Teacher's Notes File

    Activities include measuring puddles and creating 'salt lakes'.

  • Constructed Landscape Pictures Folder
  • Managed Landscape Pictures Folder
  • Natural Landscape Pictures Folder