Friends or foes?

Friends or foes? addresses AC Science Understanding ACSSU072 Living things have life cycles and ACSSU073 Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive, through the context of exploring the interdependent relationship between flowers and insects.

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Friends or foes? provides students with hands-on opportunities to:

• explore the parts of a flower required for pollination and how these attract insects
• explore the life cycle of a bee
• investigate the role of ants in pollination and seed dispersal

Students apply their new learning by:

• planning and conducting an investigation into seed dispersal methods of different plants
• using the data collected in the investigation to evaluate the effectiveness of those methods of seed dispersal

Linking science with literacy

In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Friends or foes?, students represent and explain their understanding about how living things have life cycles and that living things depend on each other and the environment to survive, by creating these representations:

• Cross section
• Factual text
• Labelled diagram
• Procedural text
• Science chat-board
• Story board
• Data table
• Word wall

This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.

The Friends or foes? sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:

• The Friends or foes? unit PDF
• Equipment list
• Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
• Student eResource sheets
• Assessment resources:
  • Assessment rubrics
  • Work samples
  • Student self-assessment
  • Achievement standard class checklist

Teacher tools

Our new all-online sequence Sustain the chain shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Sustain the chain is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.