Unit 01 - Treasure Hunt

Queensland Studies Authority Early Years Curriculum Guidelines

Active learning processes

  • Thinking
  • Imagining
  • Responding
  • Observing
  • Comparing
  • Exploring
  • Questioning
  • Identifying
  • Discussing
  • Describing attributes
Communicating
The students will:
  • Use language to explain their thinking
Thinking
The students will:
  • Engage in real experiences involving a wide range of materials, resources, people and interactions
Understanding environments
The students will:
  • Begin to develop an understanding of natural environments as they explore, discuss and recognize features of living things and objects
  • Demonstrate curiosity and enthusiasm as they investigate similarities, differences, patterns and change in environments that surround them
Queensland Studies Authority Years 1-10 Science Syllabus
Learners are unique individuals and thinkers with divergent views about the world.

Prior knowledge and experience influence the meaning they make of new learning experiences.

Level one
Life and Living: Needs of living things
Students understand that living things have needs. They understand that different living things and different environments have different identifying feature.
1.1 Student discuss their thinking about the needs of living things
1.2 Students group living things in different ways based on observable features
1.3 Students observe and describe components of familiar environments

Level two
Students understand that the ability of living things to meet their needs is influence by their characteristics and their environment.
2.1 Students look for patterns and relationships between the features of different living things.
2.3 Students make links between different features of the environment and the specific needs of living things.
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