Look Out for Living Things

This lesson offers students hands-on learning experiences and an opportunity to be a scientist — observing animal tracks and traces, making habitats, and developing critical thinking through interactive story-telling. 

• Learn about the habitats of living things through shelter building.
• Discover and observe evidence of animals and plants in their habitats by using our senses.
• Learn about the needs of plants via role play, story-telling and caretaking.

• Recognising living things and their characteristics, behaviours and the environment in which they live
• Exploring how a plant grows by identifying its needs
• Identifying evidence of animal and plant tracks and traces that indicate living things are present
• Describing the opportunities for designing habitats for living things
• Responding to the shared reading of texts for enjoyment and to retell familiar stories through roleplay

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Science and Technology - Living World

• Explores the characteristics, needs and uses of living things (STe-3LW-ST)

Supported Syllabus Outcomes

Design and Production

• Develops solutions to an identified need (Ste-2DP-DT)

Working Scientifically

• Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas (STe-1WS-S)