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plants and animals have external features that perform different functions to enable their survival; in plants these features include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trunks and branches, while different features in animals enable them to move, breathe, eat and respond to their environment

• comparing the roots, leaves, flowers and stems of different plants
• investigating the movement of water in plants by observing what happens when a celery stick is placed in a glass of water to which food colouring has been added
• exploring how the 5 human sensory organs (eyes, ears, skin, nose and tongue) detect and respond to what is happening around them, and comparing the importance of sensory organs for different animals, such as in echolocation used by bats
• exploring why animals, including humans, have different teeth and how this relates to diets (herbivores, carnivores and omnivores)
• investigating how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ observations of external features of living things, such as the way that different animals move and behave, can be represented in traditional dance
• grouping animals on the basis of common features, for example identifying how different animals use their tails or comparing body coverings of different animals, such as scales, fur, hair and skin