AC9S6U01 Year 6 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying the physical conditions in an aquatic or terrestrial habitat and how they change over time
• • Elaboration investigating how changes to physical conditions such as salinity, soil type, sunlight or temperature affect plant growth
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration investigating the effect of physical conditions on the growth of bread mould colonies in sealed plastic bags
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration investigating First Nations Australians’ knowledges and understandings of the physical conditions necessary for the survival of certain plants and animals