Developing and Communicating Scientific Understanding
Matrix of progress indicators
This matrix should be selected if the teacher's intention for learning is to develop students' abilities to explain events using accepted scientific ideas. The focus is on using scientific ideas to explain events and phenomena. The progress indicators relate to the four contextual strands: Making Sense of the Living World, Making Sense of the Material World, Making Sense of the Physical World, and Making Sense of Planet Earth and Beyond.
Specific learning contexts are not identified in either the matrix or the curriculum because, in practice, teachers will choose the contexts that are most appropriate for their students. Teachers can refer to resources such as the Ministry of Education's Making Better Sense series and Building Science Concepts series for specific content knowledge.
Levels 1–5 displayed horizontally as in the sets distributed to schools
Levels 1–5 displayed vertically
