This short unit is based on the Year 5 Australian National Curriculum for science. It is designed to build on students' prior knowledge of t...
This activity builds on the previous fun and learning of ‘Building Bridges’ and challenges students to think about how engineers choose mate...
This Adaptations unit is designed to cover the Biological Sciences content areas for Year 5 students. Students explore the types of adaptati...
This unit is designed to cover ten lessons for the Australian National Curriculum for Year 5 Chemical Science. During this unit, students le...
This presentation is designed to introduce students to the concepts included in a STEM activity of the same title. It will help students und...
In this lesson, students have the opportunity to show off what you have learned during the unit.
Understand the sudden change that can happen because of extreme weather and natural disasters.
Describe the different layers of the Earth and understand how they affect the landscape that we see.
Explore the fascinating world of physical adaptations with this comparative resource. Students will examine different animals and their uniq...
Explore the physical adaptations of different animals from different biomes.
Understand behavioural adaptations of animals in the Australian desert biome.
A self-reflection rubric for the information report on behavioural and physical adaptations of desert and plants.
An outline of what needs to be included in an information report on behavioural and physical adaptations of desert plants and animals.
Students draw a scientific diagram with annotations of a Xerophyte (Desert Plant that has specifically adapted for water conservation).
Students research one of the common modes of seed dispersal: Water, wind, animals, gravity or ballistics. They explain how the seed is dispe...
Students explain and illustrate how the Australian Banksia survives the catastrophic event of Australian bushfires.
Student research and investigate a plant that mimics the look of something else to aid its survival. They name and illustrate the plant and...
Students describe the adaptations that helps each of the following plant survive. They draw and label a scientific diagram of each. E.g.,...
Students brainstorm some environments in which plants live, describe them and some of the possible problems that plants may face in those en...
A poster that highlights examples of physical adaptations of camels.
A poster that highlights examples of physical adaptations of penguins.
A poster that highlights examples of physical adaptations of giraffes.
Students raw a scientific diagram with annotations to show behavioural adaptations of camels in the desert.
