FREE PRIMARY SCIENCE · Year 5
Surviving Australia’s extremes
How do Australian plants and animals survive heat, drought and fire?
Students investigate how desert animals and plants survive heat and dryness, discover how Australian plants survive and even need fire (and how scientists in different countries worked this out together), then model leaf features with wet paper towel to see which saves water. Lessons 1 and 2 need only iPads; lesson 3 uses paper towel, cling wrap and water.
3 free lessons · Australian Curriculum v9
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Desert survivors
How do living things survive in Australia’s hot, dry deserts?
Open free interactive lesson →Born from fire
How do Australian plants survive, and even use, bushfire?
Open free interactive lesson →Leaf water savers
Which leaf shape or covering keeps water in the longest?
Open free interactive lesson →
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