AC9S5U01 Year 5 Science

Content descriptor examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identify physical and behavioural characteristics that enable a plant or animal to survive, such as being able to see in dim light and being nocturnal
• • Elaboration exploring features of plants and animals that enable them to survive in Australia’s desert environments, such as bottle (or boab) trees and the water-holding frog
• • Elaboration investigating how camouflage is used by animals to hide from predators and to ambush prey
• • Elaboration using physical or digital simulations to explore how the shape of animals’ body parts, such as the beak of a particular bird species, influence their ability to find food and survive in a given environment
• • Elaboration investigating First Nations Australians’ knowledges of the structural features of certain species and how those features can be exploited