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Students identify questions of interest and find ways of obtaining information about energy. They present the information they have gathered into a paragraph and illustrate it or incorporate a photo.

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We need sources of energy such as electricity, petrol and gas. However, sometimes we waste energy.
Using keywords in search engines will help find the information we seek online.

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Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 English:

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680)
Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence (ACELY1677)

Year 3 Science:

Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE050)

Year 4 English:

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689)

Year 4 Science:

Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE061)

Syllabus outcomes: EN2-4A, EN2-6B, ST2-4WS.

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Materials or computers to make a report.

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