Background

Every organism has a unique habitat within which it lives. This is where the basic needs of the organism, including food, water and shelter, are met. All organisms have a variety of features that enable them to survive in this habitat.

Learning Intentions

In this activity students will:

• Understand that living things live in different places where their basic needs are met.
• Learn that organisms have a variety of external features that enable them to survive in their habitat.

Activities

Students will:

• Examine three live native Australian animals and one native plant.
• Investigate the distribution and habitat requirements of these organisms.
• Identify the external features of these organisms that enable them to survive in their habitat.

Victorian Curriculum

• People use science in their daily lives (VCSSU041 [1])
• Living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water and shelter, are met (VCSSU042 [2])
• Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life (VCSSU043 [3])

Outreach

Ecolinc offers the following outreach options:

• Frogs up close [4]