Oz-e-Science: Biology Foundation Year

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.