Year 4 Science - Biological Science Unit - Australian Curriculum

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

In this Year 4 Biological Science unit, students investigate habitats, food chains, and the roles and interactions of producers, consumers, and decomposers, building a clear understanding of feeding relationships within ecosystems. This 10-lesson unit, designed to be taught over a full term, comprehensively covers the Australian Curriculum Biological Sciences outcomes while engaging students in meaningful, hands-on learning.

This unit is fully resourced and ready to teach, with all lesson materials included, such as worksheets, posters, and classroom resources. Each lesson is carefully structured into five to six simple, easy-to-follow steps, helping you save time while ensuring learning intentions and key concepts are clearly highlighted so you can focus on your students.

An editable unit planner is included, featuring relevant Australian Curriculum links and a resources-needed column, making planning, preparation, and curriculum alignment simple and stress-free.

To support consistent and effective teaching, this unit includes an editable PowerPoint presentation which contains learning intentions and success criteria, key discussion points, worksheets, and display resources, making it ideal for classrooms with a TV or interactive whiteboard and ensuring lessons run smoothly from start to finish.

Created by Mrs Amy123, this unit is known for its fun, engaging, and highly interactive lessons. A wide range of cooperative learning strategies are embedded throughout, with learning made as hands-on as possible through class and small-group investigations and experiments. While some lessons include worksheets, others focus on discussion, modelling, and active exploration.

The unit also includes an editable grading guide, clearly outlining what achievement looks like for grades A–E, based on two assessment activities from the unit. This guide is directly linked to the Year 4 Science Achievement Standard, supporting consistent and confident assessment.

Included Resources

♦ Editable Unit Planner – 6 pages
♦ Editable PowerPoint Presentation – 100+ slides (Version 9 only)
♦ Resources and Worksheets (with 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)

Producers, consumers and decomposers have roles within an ecosystem and interact in ways that can be represented by food chains (WA4SSUB1) (WA curriculum)

Science as a Human 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)

Science 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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