Australian Curriculum · Year 6 Biology · Primary

Year 6 Biology Lesson Plan & Curriculum Map

The biological sciences unit from our Year 6 Australian Curriculum (v9.0) science lesson plan: habitats and living things. Week-by-week lessons for 1, 2, 3 or 4 lessons a week, showing when each pace covers this unit; a dash means that pace is on a different science unit that week. For the full year, see the Year 6 Science lesson plan.

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February · Habitats and living things

Year 6 Biology — February Lesson Plan

Australian Curriculum v9.0 · Biological sciences
Week1 Day/Week2 Day/Week3 Day/Week4 Day/Week
February 1st week
(Biology)
What Is a Habitat? 1. What a habitat is (where an organism lives)What Is a Habitat? 1. What a habitat is (where an organism lives) 2. Different types of habitats (e.g. forest, desert, ocean, wetland)What Is a Habitat? 1. What a habitat is (where an organism lives) 2. Different types of habitats (e.g. forest, desert, ocean, wetland) 3. Practice: identifying the habitat of a chosen Australian animal or plantWhat Is a Habitat? 1. What a habitat is (where an organism lives) 2. Different types of habitats (e.g. forest, desert, ocean, wetland) 3. Practice: identifying the habitat of a chosen Australian animal or plant Physical Conditions of a Habitat 1. Physical (abiotic) conditions that make up a habitat (temperature, water availability, light, soil type)
February 2nd week
(Biology)
What Is a Habitat? 1. Different types of habitats (e.g. forest, desert, ocean, wetland)What Is a Habitat? 1. Practice: identifying the habitat of a chosen Australian animal or plant Physical Conditions of a Habitat 1. Physical (abiotic) conditions that make up a habitat (temperature, water availability, light, soil type)Physical Conditions of a Habitat 1. Physical (abiotic) conditions that make up a habitat (temperature, water availability, light, soil type) 2. How these conditions vary between different habitats 3. Practice: comparing the physical conditions of 2 different habitatsPhysical Conditions of a Habitat 1. How these conditions vary between different habitats 2. Practice: comparing the physical conditions of 2 different habitats How Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. How temperature affects the growth of living things 2. How water availability affects growth
February 3rd week
(Biology)
What Is a Habitat? 1. Practice: identifying the habitat of a chosen Australian animal or plantPhysical Conditions of a Habitat 1. How these conditions vary between different habitats 2. Practice: comparing the physical conditions of 2 different habitatsHow Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. How temperature affects the growth of living things 2. How water availability affects growth 3. Practice: predicting how a change in temperature or water would affect a plant's growthHow Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. Practice: predicting how a change in temperature or water would affect a plant's growth How Physical Conditions Affect Survival 1. How physical conditions affect an animal's ability to survive (e.g. shelter, food availability linked to conditions) 2. Adaptations that help living things survive in their specific habitat's conditions 3. Practice: explaining how an adaptation helps a chosen organism survive its habitat's conditions
February 4th week
(Biology)
Physical Conditions of a Habitat 1. Physical (abiotic) conditions that make up a habitat (temperature, water availability, light, soil type)How Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. How temperature affects the growth of living things 2. How water availability affects growthHow Physical Conditions Affect Survival 1. How physical conditions affect an animal's ability to survive (e.g. shelter, food availability linked to conditions) 2. Adaptations that help living things survive in their specific habitat's conditions 3. Practice: explaining how an adaptation helps a chosen organism survive its habitat's conditionsChanging Physical Conditions — Natural Causes 1. Natural events that change a habitat's physical conditions (e.g. drought, flood, bushfire, seasonal change) 2. How living things respond to these natural changes 3. Practice: a real Australian example of living things responding to a natural change in conditions Changing Physical Conditions — Human Causes 1. Human activities that change a habitat's physical conditions (e.g. land clearing, pollution, climate change)
March · Habitats and living things

Year 6 Biology — March Lesson Plan

Australian Curriculum v9.0 · Biological sciences
Week1 Day/Week2 Day/Week3 Day/Week4 Day/Week
March 1st week
(Biology)
Physical Conditions of a Habitat 1. How these conditions vary between different habitatsHow Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. Practice: predicting how a change in temperature or water would affect a plant's growth How Physical Conditions Affect Survival 1. How physical conditions affect an animal's ability to survive (e.g. shelter, food availability linked to conditions)Changing Physical Conditions — Natural Causes 1. Natural events that change a habitat's physical conditions (e.g. drought, flood, bushfire, seasonal change) 2. How living things respond to these natural changes 3. Practice: a real Australian example of living things responding to a natural change in conditionsChanging Physical Conditions — Human Causes 1. How living things are affected by these human-caused changes 2. Practice: discussing a real example of a human-caused change to a habitat Case Study — A Changing Australian Habitat 1. Choosing a real Australian habitat experiencing changing physical conditions 2. Researching how the change is affecting the growth and survival of living things there
March 2nd week
(Biology)
Physical Conditions of a Habitat 1. Practice: comparing the physical conditions of 2 different habitatsHow Physical Conditions Affect Survival 1. Adaptations that help living things survive in their specific habitat's conditions 2. Practice: explaining how an adaptation helps a chosen organism survive its habitat's conditionsChanging Physical Conditions — Human Causes 1. Human activities that change a habitat's physical conditions (e.g. land clearing, pollution, climate change) 2. How living things are affected by these human-caused changes 3. Practice: discussing a real example of a human-caused change to a habitatCase Study — A Changing Australian Habitat 1. Practice: presenting findings on the chosen habitat Investigating Habitat Conditions 1. Developing an investigable question about how a physical condition affects growth or survival 2. Planning a safe, repeatable investigation, including identifying variables to change/measure/control and describing risks 3. Using equipment to record data with appropriate precision
March 3rd week
(Biology)
How Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. How temperature affects the growth of living thingsChanging Physical Conditions — Natural Causes 1. Natural events that change a habitat's physical conditions (e.g. drought, flood, bushfire, seasonal change) 2. How living things respond to these natural changesCase Study — A Changing Australian Habitat 1. Choosing a real Australian habitat experiencing changing physical conditions 2. Researching how the change is affecting the growth and survival of living things there 3. Practice: presenting findings on the chosen habitatAnalysing & Communicating Habitat Investigation Findings 1. Constructing a table or graph to represent the investigation's data 2. Describing patterns, trends and relationships in the data 3. Identifying possible sources of error and posing a question for further investigation Term 1 Assessment & Consolidation 1. Revision workshop — habitats and physical conditions
March 4th week
(Biology)
How Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. How water availability affects growthChanging Physical Conditions — Natural Causes 1. Practice: a real Australian example of living things responding to a natural change in conditions Changing Physical Conditions — Human Causes 1. Human activities that change a habitat's physical conditions (e.g. land clearing, pollution, climate change)Investigating Habitat Conditions 1. Developing an investigable question about how a physical condition affects growth or survival 2. Planning a safe, repeatable investigation, including identifying variables to change/measure/control and describing risks 3. Using equipment to record data with appropriate precisionTerm 1 Assessment & Consolidation 1. Revision workshop — how changing conditions affect growth and survival 2. Term 1 assessment: habitats topic test 3. Feedback session
April · Habitats and living things

Year 6 Biology — April Lesson Plan

Australian Curriculum v9.0 · Biological sciences
Week1 Day/Week2 Day/Week3 Day/Week4 Day/Week
April 1st week
(Biology)
How Physical Conditions Affect Growth 1. Practice: predicting how a change in temperature or water would affect a plant's growthChanging Physical Conditions — Human Causes 1. How living things are affected by these human-caused changes 2. Practice: discussing a real example of a human-caused change to a habitatAnalysing & Communicating Habitat Investigation Findings 1. Constructing a table or graph to represent the investigation's data 2. Describing patterns, trends and relationships in the data 3. Identifying possible sources of error and posing a question for further investigation—
April 2nd week
(Biology)
How Physical Conditions Affect Survival 1. How physical conditions affect an animal's ability to survive (e.g. shelter, food availability linked to conditions)Case Study — A Changing Australian Habitat 1. Choosing a real Australian habitat experiencing changing physical conditions 2. Researching how the change is affecting the growth and survival of living things thereTerm 1 Assessment & Consolidation 1. Revision workshop — habitats and physical conditions 2. Revision workshop — how changing conditions affect growth and survival 3. Term 1 assessment: habitats topic test—
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