Early Years Learning Framework Learning Outcomes

• 1.2 Develop emerging autonomy, interdependence, resilience and sense of agency
• 2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
• 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
• 4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
• 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
• 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials.
• 5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.

ELYF links to all of our preschool science workshops

Victorian Curriculum

• Objects and parts of the world around us have names and particular characteristics (VCSSU021)
• Supported to engage in simple scientific inquiry (VCSIS026)
• Supported to use the senses to identify some characteristics (VCSIS027)
• Make links between observations and findings (VCSIS029)
• Use pictures, symbols, concrete objects and/or simple familiar words to facilitate communication (VCSIS030)
• Science is about exploring the world around me (VCSSU031)
• Actively join in exploration of familiar objects and events (VCSIS036)
• Use both general terms and simple, scientific vocabulary to begin to describe their activities and observations (VCSIS040)