AC9S4U01 Year 4 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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.

explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships

Elaborations

• 1 describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals
• 2 observing living things in a local habitat and categorising them as producers, consumers or decomposers
• 3 researching the different types of decomposers and their importance within a habitat
• 4 representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats
• 5 recognising how First Nations Australians perceive themselves as being an integral part of the environment
• 6 investigating the impact of introduced predators such as foxes on small mammal species in Australia
• 7 researching how the removal of a food source from within a habitat, such as through an insect or rodent infestation, affected other living things within that habitat

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