Biology – Foundation Year

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Biology Foundation Year is a Biological Sciences unit for Foundation Year students. 

It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Science Understanding:  

  • Observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features (AC9SFU01)

Note: This curriculum program is currently updated to align with the Australian Curriculum 9.0.

Success Criteria

  • Explain that humans are animals. 
  • Represent a model of a human organism. 
  • Explain how animals smell and take food and water to live and grow. 
  • Role play how animals use their sense of smell to find food. 
  • Explain how animals see and hear. 
  • Investigate different ways humans can see and hear things. 
  • Explain how animals move. 
  • Observe how animals move and how different animals move to survive. 
  • Identify animal groups. 
  • Sort animals into groups. 
  • Explain how plants breathe and make food. 
  • Observe how plants breathe and make food. 
  • Explain how plants take food and water through their roots and have trunks and branches. 
  • Observe how plants grow from seeds. 
  • Identify plant family groups. 
  • Observe a tree near the school. 
  • Describe the Tree of Life. 
  • Represent the Tree of Life. 

Learning objectives

In Lessons 1 to 10, students learn:

  • that humans are animals 
  • how animals smell and take food and water to live and grow 
  • how animals see and hear 
  • how animals move 
  • about Animal Groups 
  • how plants breathe and make food 
  • how plants take food and water through their roots and have trunks and branches 
  • about the Plant Family Branch 
  • about the Tree of Life 
  • review what we learned about plants and animals. 

Resources

Teaching Resources

  • Lessons
  • Teaching Guide
  • Student Workbook
  • Recital List

Assessment
End-of-unit assessment
The last lesson is the end-of-unit assessment, which has a variety of question formats (e.g. label the diagram, circle the correct answer) to assess student mastery of content from the unit.
The end-of-unit assessment is in the Teaching Guide. Teachers copy the assessment and distribute to students at testing time.

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Course Includes

  • 4 Lessons
  • 13 Topics