AC9S6U01 Year 6 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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.

investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the physical conditions in an aquatic or terrestrial habitat and how they change over time
• 2 investigating how changes to physical conditions such as salinity, soil type, sunlight or temperature affect plant growth
• 3 examining how changes in physical conditions such as temperature, light availability and rainfall affect animals, such as corals, honey bees or flying foxes, and predict impacts of these changes
• 4 investigating changes in physical conditions that are the result of human activity and exploring the impact of these on living things, such as the impact of urban lighting on nocturnal and migratory animals
• 5 investigating the effect of physical conditions on the growth of bread mould colonies in sealed plastic bags
• 6 recognising that environmental conditions can affect stages of life, such as ponds drying up, seeds requiring water to germinate, or temperatures being too hot or cold for eggs to hatch
• 7 investigating First Nations Australians’ knowledges and understandings of the physical conditions necessary for the survival of certain plants and animals

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