Australian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding / Biological sciences

Living things have basic needs, including food and water (ACSSU002)

Our Sustainable World Sustainability Preview Unit

Observing And Measuring Changes: Week 1 · Learning Opportunities
Your students will act and think like scientists as they observe and measure changes in the vegetables growing in their classroom.
Sustainable Calendar: Fruit Salad · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider which seasons different fruits grow in their region.
Our Sustainability Handbook · Demonstration of Understanding
Your students will use one of the words from the Word Wall to write a sentence about sustainability.

Great and Small Connections Preview Unit

Animal Body Parts · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn how features of animals help them to live in their habitats as they label features of some animals.
Butterflies: Seasons and Changes · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how places change and how we need to adapt to those changes.
Butterflies: Colourful Camouflage · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of a butterfly as they paint a butterfly.
Shark Shapes · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of sharks as they create a paper plate shark out of shapes.
Echidnas and Other Australian Animals · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how they can stay safe while they learn about the Echidna.
Pretest · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider how their home helps them to live as they complete a pretest about what they know about this learning sequence.
Sharing Water · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how they can save water at home and at school.

The Changing World Change Preview Unit

How A Living Thing Might Change · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how a living thing might change as it gets older.
Hide And Seek: Chameleons · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn how chameleons can change their appearance to hide in their habitat.
Changes In My World · Demonstration of Understanding
Your students will contribute to a class book about changes by drawing images showing things that change in their world.

Shaping Identity Identity Preview Unit

Our Classroom Identity: Pets · Learning Opportunities
Your students will use a pictograph to work out the types of pets that students in the class own.

A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit

Assessment · Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research.