Year 2 Science – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Combining Materials for Different Purposes

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 2 Science in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Combining Materials for Different Purposes”.

Students explore how materials can be combined for particular purposes and investigate how combining materials can change their properties.

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. Exploring Different Materials Around Us
2. What Happens When We Mix Materials Together?
3. Making Gooey Mixtures with Water and Cornflour
4. Creating Strong Connections by Joining Materials
5. Investigating Aboriginal Tools Made from Combined Materials
6. Weaving with Natural Materials Like First Nations Peoples
7. Making Our Own Tools by Combining Materials
8. Testing Which Material Combinations Work Best

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.