Unit Overview
Key Inquiry Question
What is the difference between living, non-living and once living things?
Curriculum Links
Australian Curriculum
ACSSU044, ACSHE050, ACSHE051, ACSIS053, ACSIS054, ACSIS055, ACSIS057, ACSIS215, ACSIS058, ACSIS060
NSW Curriculum
ST2-4LW-S, ST2-10ES-S, ST2-1WS-S, ST2-1WS-S
Victorian Curriculum
VCSSU056, VCSSU057, VCSIS065, VCSIS066, VCSIS067, VCSIS069, VCSIS070, VCSIS071, VCSIS072
Cross Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
General Capabilities
Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy, Literacy, ICT capacity
Vocabulary
growth, movement, reproduction, sensitivity, respiration, elimination, excretion, feeding, nutrition, classification, living, non-living, once living
Achievement Standards
- By the end of Year 3, students group living things based on observable features and distinguish them from non-living things.
- Students use their experiences to identify questions and make predictions about scientific investigations to respond to questions.
- They follow procedures to collect and record observations and suggest possible reasons for their findings, based on patterns in their data.
- They describe how safety and fairness were considered and they use diagrams and other representations to communicate their ideas.
Assessment
