Category Archives: Science

Living Things R-2 Resources

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Living and non-living
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/learning/learning-lab/little-science/teacher-support-materials/am-i-living/

 

 

 

 

 

Insects live in different places
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/learning/learning-lab/little-science/teacher-support-materials/insects-live-in-different-places/

 

 

 

 

 

Life Cycles
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/learning/learning-lab/little-science/teacher-support-materials/life-cycles/

 

 

 

 

 

Needs of Living Things
http://scienceweb.asta.edu.au/years-f-2/unit1/overview/yrf2-unit1-overview.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Night of the Bilby
Features of a desert habitat. Interactive resource.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L896/index.html

Animals that like wet weather
Video clip
ABC Education
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/30204/

All about Frogs
Video
ABC Education
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/30204/

 

Skin and Scales, Feather and Fur – R,1

Video

ABC Education

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/1273965/skin-and-scales-feathers-and-fur

Learn about wool

https://www.learnaboutwool.com/lesson-plans/?subject=0&year=F-y1-y2

Examples of assessments in this area
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/S4311/index.html

Planning Considerations

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary EADL LLL-1pl0im2

Scope and Sequences for Learning Areas – Australian Curriculum

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Maths:
AustralianCurriculum-2

English:
AustralianCurriculum-3

Science:
AustralianCurriculum-4

History:
AustralianCurriculum-5

Geography:
AustralianCurriculum-6

Design and Technology: Materials
AustralianCurriculum-7

Design and Technology: Digital Technologies:
AustralianCurriculum-8

Economics and Business:
AustralianCurriculum-9

Civics and Citizenship:
AustralianCurriculum-10

The Arts:
AustralianCurriculum-11

Health and Physical Education:
AustralianCurriculum-12

Italian:
AustralianCurriculum-13

Model of a Descriptive Report (basic Information Report)

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Here is a model of a descriptive report which I will be using with students from R-2 to examine the structure and language features of this type of text. If you have some good models you would like to share, let me know and I can add them here to share.

 

Title Red-bellied piranha

General statement

Entity classification

 The red-bellied piranha is a type of fish that lives in the Amazon River.

Description

Features

 It has an orange belly, grey back, and very sharp teeth set in strong jaws. It grows up to 33 centimetres in length.

Diet

Behaviour

 The red-bellied piranha hunts in shoals of 20-30 fish. They feed on a diet of fish, insects, snails, plants, and river animals. They hide in vegetation in order to ambush prey, and they also chase prey and scavenge for food. The younger, smaller fish hunt by day, and the older, bigger fish hunt at dawn and dusk.
Reproduction The female lays a clutch of up to 1 000 eggs.
Life expectancy Piranhas can live for about 100 years.

 

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Attached is a copy of a Teaching and Learning Cycle model.
Macro-Invertebrates
Macro-Invertebrates Unit R-2

Feel free to add/ delete/ change to suit. Let me know which aspects you would like me to focus on in RBL/ICT sessions.

Wetlands – Resources for Early Years Classes – Term 2

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Websites:
Great Units of Work here:
http://www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/adelaidemtloftyranges/education/for-educators/plants-and-animals

http://waterwatchadelaide.net.au/index.php?page=education-materials-4

http://www.waterwatchadelaide.net.au/uploads/file/pdfs/wetlands/Living%20Waterways%20(WCA%20updated%20WEB).pdf

Urbrae Wetlands:
http://www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/adelaidemtloftyranges/home
amlr-me-schools-aquatic-macros-a4-big-bugs-gen

amlr-me-schools-aquatic-macros-a4-big-bugs-summary-gen

Mayfly Nymph Info sheet (UK)
mayfly-nymph-fact-sheet

amlr-me-schools-aquatic-macros-teacher-pack-gen

aust-curriculum-macroinvertebrates-unit-of-work-r-2-gen

http://waterwatchadelaide.net.au/index.php?page=information-3
Our local invertebrates:
http://waterwatchadelaide.net.au/index.php?page=up-close-and-personal2

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/spider5.htm

Video snippets (links if videos above don’t work):
Butterflies – http://abcspla.sh/t/495556
Spiders – http://abcspla.sh/m/1436538
Termites – http://abcspla.sh/m/1182876

Teaching Resources:

Living Waterways (WCA updated WEB)[1]

richmond-ps-biodiversity-procedure-r1-gen

biodiversity-web-links-gen

amlr-me-schools-aquatic-macros-teacher-pack-gen

Garden Detective interactive:
http://abcspla.sh/m/1388597

Scootle Resources:
Dragon’s jumble series: L7862 dream: four parts, L7863 garden: four parts, L7864 dream: three parts, L7865 garden: three parts
Finding symmetry: one line series: L7800 garden, L7803 city
L2345 Kitchen stacker 1
Garden detective series: L1118 explore an Australian garden, L1119 group Australian animals
L1358 Life cycles: butterflies
L1147 Food chains: what is a food chain?
R4138 Pupa of a Ulysses butterfly camouflaged as a leaf
R5372 Huntsman spider
R5576 Rock grasshopper among rocks
R5577 Long-legged sandhopper
R5578 Redlined geometrid caterpillar
R4820 Adult male white-stemmed gum moth
R4136 Pupa of a Richmond birdwing butterfly
R5575 Long-spinneret bark spider on a tree trunk
R5643 Wing and body shapes, colour patterns and antennae of some Australian moths and butterflies

Units of Work:
MMS_Science_NEALS

uw_002_bug_bizniz

The First 21 Days of a Bee’s Life