Comparing Animals

Students will:

• • Compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals (AC9S3U01).
• • Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01).
• • Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations (AC9S3H01).

Students can:

• • Construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organise data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns (AC9S3I04).
• • Pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations (AC9S3I01).
• • Follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S3I03).