Teaching Resource
Living Things and Their Needs - Habitat Diorama
An open-ended assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of living things and their needs.
Use this teaching resource as an assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of living things and their basic needs.
Students will design and make a habitat diorama showing the needs of a living thing of their own choice.
This resource includes:
- instructions for students
- planning sheet
- optional marking criteria for teachers.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- STe-1WS-S
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
- STe-3LW-ST
Explores the characteristics, needs and uses of living things
Victorian Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU002
Living things have basic needs, including food and water
- ACSHE013
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events
- ACSIS014
Pose and respond to questions about familiar objects and events
- ACSIS011
Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses
- ACSIS233
Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas
- ACSIS012
Share observations and ideas

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