The mountain-model visitor
Made-up story. At a pretend mountain exhibition, a visitor asks, “How could lake water reach the sea as rain?” The model card lists lake liquid → evaporation → invisible water vapour in air → condensation → cloud droplets → precipitation → ocean water. A second branch shows precipitation to land. No amount, travel time or weather forecast is supplied. The visitor needs a short explanation of the possible process, not a promised rain date. Choose a written, drawn, signed, spoken, dictated or typed response.
Four questions
- Answer this visitor using the three process names.
- What changes in the second branch?
- Who are you helping, and with what question?
- Give one useful limit.
My empty response page · A17 · whole labelled picture · A17 · complete picture words
Tell or show it in your usual way: words, drawing, pointing, signing, typing, dictation or your communication device. Work quietly or privately, pause, ask for a helper, or return later. Sharing and recording are optional.
Grown-up help
Use on Day 40 or later, after relevant teaching and exposure review. This is original supplied fiction. A neutral reader may read every sentence and question; record help.
Separate staff guide · Teacher desk
Modified from Year 4 Science alignment, standard elaborations and Years 3–4 techniques and conditions, © State of Queensland (QCAA) 2023, covered CC BY 4.0 with exceptions. Our task criteria are original; these are not official A–E bands. Actual folio and on-balance professional judgment remain necessary.