Year 4- Biological Sciences
Content Description:
Elaborations:
- Living things have life cycles (ACSSU072)
Elaborations:
- Making and recording observations of living things as they develop through their life cycles
- Describing the stages of life cycles of different living things such as insects, birds, frogs and flowering plants
Blooms Taxonomy Questions
Remembering
Describe what a life cycle is and examples of what could be turned into a life cycle.. Draw a life cycle of a butterfly in order and label the stages.
Understanding
Summarise what happens or key events that occur in each stage of a butterfly's life cycle and identify how long each stage lasts.
Applying
Organise the facts from the following informational video on frogs and represent how they develop throughout their life using a life cycle. Identify the differences/similarities between a butterfly's and a frogs life cycle.
Analysing
Analyse the classroom chicken (producing chicks) and research information on a kangaroo's life. Make a life cycle diagram to show your observations and compare their stages of life (e.g. both keep their young warm- underneath mum or in a pouch).
Evaluating
Write down your opinion to the following questions about what would happen to a plants life cycle if its growing conditions changed and why. Create a CD case growing box for each proposed growing condition, document your findings and evaluate your predictions made prior to the experiment (were you correct/incorrect).
Questions to answer/environment:
- What do you think a plants life cycle would be like if it was in an ideal environment?
- What would happen if a plant had no sun light?
- What would happen if a plant never received water?
- What would happen if the plants breathing holes were covered up?
- How will the plant grow in soil?
- How will the plant grow in sand?
Creating
Design your own animal and display its stages of life through the use of a life cycle (images, labels, description). Develop its habitat/s in a diorama (shoe box) to assist in explaining its life cycle and its environment/food. Present the life cycle in a PowerPoint to the class with the diorama.
Describe what a life cycle is and examples of what could be turned into a life cycle.. Draw a life cycle of a butterfly in order and label the stages.
Understanding
Summarise what happens or key events that occur in each stage of a butterfly's life cycle and identify how long each stage lasts.
Applying
Organise the facts from the following informational video on frogs and represent how they develop throughout their life using a life cycle. Identify the differences/similarities between a butterfly's and a frogs life cycle.
Analysing
Analyse the classroom chicken (producing chicks) and research information on a kangaroo's life. Make a life cycle diagram to show your observations and compare their stages of life (e.g. both keep their young warm- underneath mum or in a pouch).
Evaluating
Write down your opinion to the following questions about what would happen to a plants life cycle if its growing conditions changed and why. Create a CD case growing box for each proposed growing condition, document your findings and evaluate your predictions made prior to the experiment (were you correct/incorrect).
Questions to answer/environment:
- What do you think a plants life cycle would be like if it was in an ideal environment?
- What would happen if a plant had no sun light?
- What would happen if a plant never received water?
- What would happen if the plants breathing holes were covered up?
- How will the plant grow in soil?
- How will the plant grow in sand?
Creating
Design your own animal and display its stages of life through the use of a life cycle (images, labels, description). Develop its habitat/s in a diorama (shoe box) to assist in explaining its life cycle and its environment/food. Present the life cycle in a PowerPoint to the class with the diorama.