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Living Things and Their Needs - Habitat Diorama

PDF | 3 pages|Grades: F - 2

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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Living Things and Their Needs Unit Plan
This Science unit covers a range of concepts relating to the basic needs of living things.

11 lessons F

NSW Curriculum alignment

STe-1WS-S
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
In Science Early Stage 1 Skills
STe-3LW-ST
Explores the characteristics, needs and uses of living things
In Science Early Stage 1 Knowledge and Understanding

Victorian Curriculum alignment

VCSIS050
Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events
In Science Foundation Level Science Inquiry Skills
VCSIS051
Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions
In Science Foundation Level Science Inquiry Skills

Australian Curriculum alignment

ACSSU002
Living things have basic needs, including food and water
In Science Foundation Year Science Understanding Biological sciences
ACSHE013
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events
In Science Foundation Year Science as a Human Endeavour Nature and development of science
ACSIS014
Pose and respond to questions about familiar objects and events
In Science Foundation Year Science Inquiry Skills Questioning and predicting
ACSIS011
Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses
In Science Foundation Year Science Inquiry Skills Planning and conducting
ACSIS233
Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas
In Science Foundation Year Science Inquiry Skills Processing and analysing data and information
ACSIS012
Share observations and ideas
In Science Foundation Year Science Inquiry Skills Communicating

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