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Survival in habitats

What helps living things survive where they live?

Three iPad lessons with no materials. Students sort structural features from behaviours, design a creature for a habitat and test it, then predict what happens to a food web when one living thing changes.

3 free lessons · Australian Curriculum v9

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  1. Body or behaviour?

    How do features and behaviours help animals survive?

    No materials needed · AC9S5U01, AC9S5I04

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  2. Design a survivor

    Which features help a creature survive in a habitat?

    No materials needed · AC9S5U01, AC9S5I05

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  3. Food web what-ifs

    What happens when one living thing in a habitat changes?

    No materials needed · AC9S4U01, AC9S6U01, AC9S6I01

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