Pre-Primary Science – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Exploring Materials Around Us

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Pre-Primary Science in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Exploring Materials Around Us”.

Students will explore and identify the observable properties of various materials in their environment including colour, hardness, texture and flexibility.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Discovering Different Materials in Our Classroom
2. Exploring Colours of Everyday Objects
3. Testing Hard and Soft Materials
4. Feeling Smooth and Rough Textures
5. Bending and Stretching - Flexible vs Rigid Materials
6. Sorting Objects by Their Properties
7. Material Detective - Describing What We Observe
8. Creating Our Class Materials Collection

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.