Living World - Adapting & Surviving (Year 5, Stage 3)

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This unit focuses on the growth and survival of living things and how their adaptations over time suit their environment. Students investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in sustainable, managed environments that enable people to grow and be healthy. This strand further develops students’ knowledge and understanding of the environmental and biological sciences.

This unit of work covers NSW Science & Technology outcomes:
ST3-1WS-S Working Scientifically
plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions
ST3-2DP-T Design & Production
plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
ST3-4LW-S Living World
examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things

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This unit integrates with Stage 3 outcomes in

• Mathematics - Area, Length and Data;
  
• English - writing & representing, reading and viewing, speaking and listening, reflecting on learning; 
• Geography - factors that shape places (environments shapes places)
  
• Creative Arts - visual arts (Australian landscapes)
• History - Australian colonies (impact of colonisation on the environment: introduced species)

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Useful Resources

Indigenous Uses of Fire

Text - The story of rosy dock by Jeannie Baker

ABC Education - My Country

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Marvellous Micro-organisms (Year 6, Stage 3) 
**Aligned to old NSW Science & Technology Syllabus**

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