Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding / Biological sciences
Living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water and shelter, are met (VCSSU042)
Great and Small Connections Preview Unit |
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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. |
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Butterflies: Seasons and Changes
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how places change and how we need to adapt to those changes. |
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Butterflies: Colourful Camouflage
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of a butterfly as they paint a butterfly. |
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Shark Shapes
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of sharks as they create a paper plate shark out of shapes. |
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Echidnas and Other Australian Animals
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how they can stay safe while they learn about the Echidna. |
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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. |
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Introducing the Unit
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider where imaginary animals would live and what they would eat as they learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence. |
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Sharing Water
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how they can save water at home and at school. |
Our Sustainable World Sustainability Preview Unit |
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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. |
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Sustainable Calendar: Fruit Salad
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider which seasons different fruits grow in their region. |
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Our Sustainability Handbook
· Demonstration of Understanding
Your students will use one of the words from the Word Wall to write a sentence about sustainability. |
The Changing World Change Preview Unit |
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How A Living Thing Might Change
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how a living thing might change as it gets older. |
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Hide And Seek: Chameleons
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn how chameleons can change their appearance to hide in their habitat. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |