AC9S3U01 Year 3 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals

Elaborations

• 1 classifying a collection of objects as living, once living or non-living and explaining their reasoning
• 2 observing and describing differences between metamorphic (such as butterflies, beetles or frogs) and non-metamorphic life cycles of animals, including humans
• 3 comparing the physical characteristics of an animal such as a frog or moth with its activity at different stages of its life cycle
• 4 representing stages of a plant or animal’s life cycle using drawings, digital photographs, graphic organisers or concrete materials
• 5 investigating how First Nations Australians understand and utilise the life cycles of certain species

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