Australian Curriculum Year 4 – Science (AC9S4U01)
AC9
Australian Curriculum V9
S
Science
4
Year 4
U
Science Understanding
01
Content Descriptor Number
Inspired by AC9S4U01 of the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0, material in this section may help your child present descriptions and explanations, using ideas from sources and relevant subject-specific terms. It may also help further understanding in:
- describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals (AC9S4U01_E1)
- observing living things in a local habitat and categorising them as producers, consumers or decomposers (AC9S4U01_E2)
- researching the different types of decomposers and their importance within a habitat
representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats (AC9S4U01_E3) - recognising how First Nations Australians perceive themselves as being an integral part of the environment (AC9S4U01_E4)
- investigating the impact of introduced predators such as foxes on small mammal species in Australia (AC9S4U01_E5)
- researching how the removal of a food source from within a habitat, such as through an insect or rodent infestation, affected other living things within that habitat (AC9S4U01_E6)
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