Year 4 Biological Science Unit Australian Curriculum

Includes update to version 9 of the Australian Curriculum in addition to a version for 8.4. ✓ Editable Unit Planner ✓ Grading Guide ✓ Editable PowerPoint ✓ Worksheets ✓ Success Criteria/Learning Intentions

A 10 week unit (~10 lessons) where students explain the roles and interactions within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships, covering the Australian Curriculum outcomes for Biological Sciences.

✩It is a 10 lesson unit (designed to be taught over a term) that contains all lesson resources, including worksheets and posters.

✩The editable planner includes relevant Australian Curriculum links and resources needed column.

✩The lessons are kept simple and succinct, five to six steps each, to help you save time. The clear instructions highlight the key points, allowing you to focus on the students and make the most of the learning opportunities.

✩ This Science unit also contains an editable PowerPoint presentation that can be displayed during each lesson. It includes the learning intentions/success criteria, key discussion points, worksheets and display resources. This makes teaching every lesson even easier if your classroom has a T.V or Smartboard.

✩Mrs Amy123 is known for its fun and engaging lessons that involve a wide range of cooperative learning strategies. This means that some lessons will not feature worksheets, though many will. The unit is made as hands-on as imaginable, including class and small group experiments.

✩This unit also includes a grading guide that shows what each grade (A-E) would look like based on two activities from the unit. This document is also linked to the Achievement Standard for Year 4 Science.

Included are:

♦ Editable Planner (6 pages)

♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation (100+ pages) (Version 9 only)

♦ Resources and Worksheets + Answer Keys (46 pages)

♦ Editable Grading Guide (1 page)

♦ Editable learning intentions and success criteria

Outcomes covered:

• Biological Sciences: Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships (AC9S4U01)
• Science Endeavour: · Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations (AC9S4H01)

Consider how people use scientific explanations to meet a need or solve a problem (AC9S4H02)

• Inquiry Skills: Pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations (AC9SI01)

· Use provided scaffolds to plan and conduct investigations to answer questions or test predictions, including identifying the elements of fair tests, and considering the safe use of materials and equipment (AC9S4I02)

· Follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S4I03)

· Construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organize data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns (AC9S4I04)

· Compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions (AC9S4I05)

Write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate (AC9S4I06)

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