Plants and Animals

Students will explore the natural cycles that support life and dive into the fascinating relationships between plants and animals across a variety of environments. Through guided, hands-on learning, they will investigate how living things adapt in order to meet their basic needs, including food, shelter, pollination, fertilisation, and decomposition. Students will come to understand how these interconnected processes support the survival of individual species and contribute to the overall health and balance of ecosystems.  

Students will:

• Discuss and observe the relationships between plants and animals

• Create their own creature using clay and plant materials

• Go on a discovery walk

Key focuses: 
 

• Plant and animal interrelationships

• What plants and animals need to survive

• Habitats, features and ecosystems  

Curriculum links: 
 

• Science

  • Foundation to Level 2

    • VC2S2U03: Plants and animals have external features that perform different functions to enable their survival; in plants these features include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trunks and branches, while different features in animals enable them to move, breathe, eat and respond to their environment

    • VC2S2U02: Plants and animals have basic needs, including air, water, food and shelter; the places where they live meet those needs

  • Level 3 and 4

    • VC2S4U02: plants and animals have different life cycles; offspring are similar, but not identical, to their parents

    • VC2S4U03: consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships 

    • VC2S4U01: living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils