Science and Technology – 2024 Syllabus
Available Term 3 and Term 4
Program overview
Students conduct a series of investigations in order to solve an ecological mystery. They will pose questions and use evidence to support their theories about whooooo killed the powerful owl and what can be done to protect it.
Learning experiences
Students:
- Discover the crime scene in which a powerful owl has been killed
- Pose questions about what might have happened to it
- Examine a preserved powerful owl to learn out its behavioural and structural adaptations
- use a journal to record adaptations of the powerful owl.
- undertake a food web evidence hunt.
- describe the impact on the ecosystem from the introduction of foxes and cats and other human impacts
- assess the habitat required by both a powerful owl and its prey and make suggestions on the health of their ecosystem
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Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Knowledge of our world and beyond inspires sustainable solutions
Outcomes
uses evidence to explain how scientific knowledge can be used to develop sustainable practices ST3-SCI-01
poses questions to identify variables and conducts fair tests to gather data ST3-PQU-01
Content
Living things may change over millions of years, in response to their environments
- Observe behavioural and structural adaptations of plants and animals, and suggest how these may help them survive in their environments
- Interpret a food web that describes the flow of matter and energy between plants and animals in an ecosystem
- Identify and describe how the loss or introduction of plants or animals affects an Australian ecosystem
- Describe how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ sustainable practices continue to protect the environment