Staff guide · The cool display lid
Use only after the own attempt. These local criteria are examples of evidence, not an official grade or a unique required phrasing.
Complete selected source
Made-up story. A pretend craft-display cabinet has two sealed containers whose outside lids begin dry. One container is cool and the other is at room temperature. Later the supplied picture shows small liquid drops on the cool outside lid and no visible drops on the comparison lid. The source provides no measured drop volume or humidity reading. Lea proposes that water vapour in the surrounding air changed to outside drops. The display is indoors and the story includes no cloud rain. You did not make these observations yourself.
Q1
Prompt: Which way does condensation change water?
Minimum meaningful evidence: Identifies vapour/gas-to-liquid condensation.
Worked example: Vapour in surrounding air changes to liquid droplets.
Next teaching: Revisit a different window/panel state-direction example.
Partial national link: AC9S4U02
Actual response / support / next appointment: ______
Q2
Prompt: Pick a clue supporting Lea's explanation.
Minimum meaningful evidence: Uses a relevant supplied dry-start/cool-comparison clue.
Worked example: Drops appeared on the initially dry cool outside lid, with no visible drops shown on the comparison lid.
Next teaching: Separate supplied clue and possible explanation using neutral source reading.
Partial national link: AC9S4H01
Actual response / support / next appointment: ______
Q3
Prompt: Are these lid drops precipitation from a cloud? Explain.
Minimum meaningful evidence: Distinguishes surface condensation from falling cloud precipitation.
Worked example: No cloud rain is in the story; outside drops can form by condensation on the lid.
Next teaching: Use a new rain-versus-surface comparison.
Partial national link: AC9S4U02
Actual response / support / next appointment: ______
Q4
Prompt: Name one thing left unknown.
Minimum meaningful evidence: Names absent amount/humidity/unsupported universal-cause detail.
Worked example: The story does not provide a measured drop amount or humidity, and does not prove every wet lid has this cause.
Next teaching: Practise “not supplied” on a different source, then plan the relevant future teaching.
Partial national link: AC9S4I01
Actual response / support / next appointment: ______
Use on Day 40 or later, after relevant teaching and exposure review. Preserve the earlier response and what was subsequently taught. New complete stories have familiar taught process/representation components; do not claim all-unseen answers, matched statistical difficulty or automatic improvement. Fiction/source reasoning does not establish actual measurement or conduct.
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.