Turtle heroes (v8.4)
Year 4 students study the life cycle of the endangered loggerhead turtle as
they describe the relationships that assist the survival of living things and sequence key stages in the life cycle of this animal. Students are confronted by a scenario at Nudgee Beach and are called to take action.
Students identify when science is used to understand the effect of their actions as they work through a variety of activities revealing human impacts on the loggerhead turtle at various stages of the turtle life cycle.
Resources
Year 4 curriculum overview (v8.4)
Cultural connections (v9)
Year 4 students are invited to learn on, from and with country as First Nations elder, James Sandy, shares his cultural knowledge and explains
the deep connections of First Nations Australians to the land and water.
With a science focus, Students will
consider how First Nations Australians use materials for different purposes, such as tools, clothing and shelter, based on their properties as they explore and choose between a range of different experiences set up throughout the bush areas at Nudgee Beach EEC.
With a HASS focus, students will explore and
describe the diversity of experiences of people in Australia prior to and following 1788.
Resources
Year 4 curriculum overview (v9)
Food chains (v9)
Year 4 students will focus their learning to
explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships. Throughout the day, students will collect cards depicting these organisms as they study producers in the mangroves along the boardwalk and consumers at the beach during twitching, yabby pumping and fine sieving.
At the end of the day, they will
organise data and information, on the collected cards,
to identify patterns and relationships and the roles of organisms in a habitat to
construct a number of different
food chains.
Resources
Year 4 curriculum overview (v9)