VC2S2U01

plants and animals have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways

• observing fruits and vegetables and identifying them as parts of plants such as roots, flowers, fruit and leaves
• grouping animals as vertebrates (animals that have backbones or spinal columns, such as amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles) or invertebrates (animals that have no backbones or bony skeletons inside them, such as insects, spiders, worms, snails, lobsters and jellyfish; some have outer shells while others have no hard parts in their bodies)
• recognising humans as animals, describing external features of humans, and exploring similarities to and differences with other animals
• using magnifying glasses or digital cameras to observe and identify external features of plants, including seeds, flowers, fruits and roots, or of animals, such as eyes, body coverings, legs and wings
• sorting collections of model animals and explaining different grouping strategies
• investigating how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ observations of external features have been represented in expressions of material culture from Deep Time to today, such as through rock art or cultural dances, for example in paintings of Genyornis newtoni, a megafaunal species that lived during the most recent Ice Age