Year 1 Science - Biological Science Unit - Australian Curriculum

Bring Year 1 Biological Science to life with this engaging 10-lesson unit on living things and their external features, fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum v9, with a bonus WA curriculum planner! In this hands-on unit, students explore how living things look, how they live, and how their needs are met in different environments through meaningful investigations and collaborative learning experiences.

Designed to be taught across a term, this 10-lesson Year 1 Biological Science unit includes everything you need to plan, teach, assess and engage your students with confidence. All lesson resources are included, from worksheets and posters to editable planning and assessment tools, saving you hours of preparation time.

Each lesson is intentionally simple, clear and teacher-friendly, broken into five to six concise steps with explicit instructions that highlight key learning points. This allows you to focus on your students, maximise engagement, and make the most of teachable moments throughout each lesson.

True to Mrs Amy123’s style, the unit is fun, engaging and highly interactive, incorporating a wide range of cooperative learning strategies. While many lessons include worksheets, others are deliberately worksheet-free to prioritise discussion, movement, experiments and hands-on learning. Students participate in whole-class and small-group investigations that build curiosity and deepen understanding.

The unit also includes an editable grading guide, clearly outlining what achievement looks like from A–E, based on two assessment tasks within the unit. This guide is explicitly linked to the Year 1 Science Achievement Standard, making assessment clear, consistent and curriculum-aligned.

An editable planner is included, complete with Australian Curriculum links and a resources-needed column, giving you flexibility to tailor the unit to your classroom while staying fully aligned.

Included resources:

• Editable planner (6 pages) (+WA curriculum version)

• Teaching and student resources (62 pages)

• Editable grading guide (1 page)

• Editable learning intentions and success criteria

Outcomes covered:

Biological Sciences:
Identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter and describe how the places they live meet those needs (AC9S1U01)

Plants and animals have external features that serve a purpose and by which they can be grouped (WA1SSUB1) (WA Curriculum)

Science Endeavour:

Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions (AC9S1H01)

Inquiry Skills:

Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences (AC9S1I01)

Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions (AC9S1I02)

Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S1I03)

Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models (AC9S1I04)

Compare observation with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance (AC9S1I05)

Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary (AC9S1I06)

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