Year 5 Science - Biological Science Living Things - Australian Curriculum

Explore animal and plant adaptations with confidence using this comprehensive Year 5 Biological Science unit on structural features and survival, fully updated to Australian Curriculum Version 9 and including a WA Curriculum version. Across 10 engaging lessons, students investigate how living things have structural features and behaviours that help them survive in specific environments.

Designed to be taught over a full term, this 10-lesson unit includes everything you need to plan, teach and assess with ease, including an editable unit planner, worksheets, lesson resources, assessment tools and a ready-to-use PowerPoint presentation.

An editable unit planner is included with relevant Australian Curriculum links and a clear resources-needed column, supporting efficient and flexible planning.

✩ To make teaching even easier, this unit includes an editable PowerPoint presentation for every lesson. Designed for use on a TV or Smartboard, it features learning intentions and success criteria, key discussion prompts, worksheets and display resources — allowing you to deliver each lesson smoothly with all materials in one place.

Lessons are clear, concise and teacher-friendly, structured into five to six simple steps. Explicit instructions highlight key concepts, helping you maximise learning time while keeping lessons manageable and engaging.

True to Mrs Amy123’s style, this unit is fun, engaging and highly hands-on, incorporating a wide range of cooperative learning strategies. While many lessons include worksheets, others intentionally prioritise discussion, investigation and collaboration. Students participate in whole-class and small-group experiments, developing a deeper understanding of adaptations through active learning.

An editable grading guide is also included, clearly outlining what achievement looks like from A–E based on two assessment tasks from the unit. This guide is directly linked to the Year 5 Science Achievement Standard, supporting consistent and confident assessment.

What’s included:

• Editable Planner (5 pages) (+WA curriculum version)

• Lesson resources including answer keys (58 pages)

• Editable PowerPoint Presentation (100+ pages)

• Editable Grading Guide (1 page)

• Editable learning intentions and success criteria

Outcomes:

Biological Sciences:
Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01)

Living things have structural and behavioural adaptations that enable their survival in their environment (WA5SSUB1) (WA curriculum)

Science Endeavour:
· Examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others (AC9S5H01)
· Investigate how scientific knowledge Is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions (AC9S5H02)

Inquiry Skills:
· Pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions (AC9S5I01)
· Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions, including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place (AC9S5I02)
· Use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I03)
· Construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organize and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships (AC9S5I04)
· Compare methods and findings with those of others, recognize possible sources of error, pose questions for further investigation and select evidence to draw reasoned conclusions (AC0S5I05)
· Write and create to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I06)

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