Foundation, Term 3: Living thingsFocus: CyclesScope and sequence: Life cycles |
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Learning
intention: Students
explore the characteristics, needs and uses of living
things.
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NSW Syllabus
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Australian Curriculum
(version 9.0)
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"A student explores the
characteristics, needs and uses of living things." (STe-3LW-ST)
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"Students learn to observe
external features of plants and animals and describe ways they
can be grouped based on these features." (AC9SFU01)
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Introduction to the topic
CD case planters
The following video (2:28) shows how students can use CD
cases to grow seeds. They can also write on their experiment as it
happens as an introduction to real-time data logging.
Inventing a creature
What have you cared for? Discuss some of the different ways in which children have been encouraged to be responsible in the past. For example, caring for an egg, plant or Tamagotchi.
Introduction to food chains
The following video (2:34) is an animated version of the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.
Introduction to the characteristics of life
The following video (3:40) is a great introduction to the
characteristics of life.
This short video (3:13) outlines the seven characteristics of living things, namely: