Consult only after the first independent response is recorded. These are formative next steps, not marks, diagnosis, classroom-pilot claims or a complete ACARA achievement judgment. There is no fixed local animal answer: real presence, features and safe visibility depend on actual approved dated sources. A neutral ADULT REPORT is not the child's direct sense; a rights-cleared PHOTO is a mediated view of depicted features, not proof of local presence. No paper outline is a real animal.
Day 85 · Case P
- Strong bounded paper response: NARROW shows round middle and two foot-like strokes. The fan-shaped top mark is above its border; FULL includes it. Both are views of one invented figure, so a NARROW-only viewer cannot conclude the mark is absent from a real animal or that two animals exist. No actual species/location/feature is supplied.
- Reasonable next source: a safe school-approved actual distant view if an animal genuinely appears, with local date/access/visible external feature; or a provenanced rights-cleared real PHOTO with creator/licence/date/crop. The PHOTO claim applies only to depicted features, not local presence. An animal need not appear; NOT SEEN TODAY is honest.
- Do not award: direct AC9SFU01 real external-feature evidence or AC9SFI02 real investigation from P; species/behaviour inference; a “missing top” biological claim; public location from a paper case.
- Next move: if crop is equated with absence, manipulate one broad fixed paper border; if source type is merged, contrast MODEL/PHOTO/DIRECT labels; if source discipline is strong, plan one genuine safe view.
Day 90 · Case Q
- Strong bounded paper response: two printed cards, but their shared PUPPET DRAWING 42 stamp and text identify one invented figure. LEFT displays three square back patches; RIGHT displays one because of crop, with two outside. Paper marks may be compared or sorted as paper views, but there are not two real animals to group.
- Reasonable next source: two distinct verified real animal subjects, separately dated and safely viewed or represented by rights-cleared PHOTOs, each with source/view/access and an actually visible external feature under the child's rule. If identity/feature or rights are unknown, mark grouping NOT OBSERVED. A PHOTO does not prove either subject is at school.
- Do not award: a two-animal AC9SFU01 grouping from two crops of one puppet; a claim patches disappeared; animal species or local Country/Place inference; actual observation from printed model only.
- Next move: if child counts cards as animals, compare source IDs; if child treats hidden as absent, reveal full/crop paper source; if strong, invite a teacher-approved real two-source grouping when available.
Interpretation: AC9SFU01 includes visible external features of plants and animals and grouping; this pack samples animals only when genuine sources exist, alongside earlier plant work. A fictional model can show source reasoning, never a local animal feature. AC9SFI02 requires genuine safe investigation; a verified PHOTO may support depicted feature observation but is not live local investigation. If no actual source was available, write REAL OBSERVATION NOT AVAILABLE, not child inability. One check cannot certify term/year mastery or improvement.