AC9S5U01 Year 5 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 investigating how camouflage is used by animals to hide from predators and to ambush prey
• 4 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
• 5 investigating First Nations Australians’ knowledges of the structural features of certain species and how those features can be exploited

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