VGC 

Foundation Level

Staying alive provides students with hands-on opportunities to:

explore how our senses help animals, including humans, survive
investigate how animals, including humans, need air, food and water
consider how space and shelter provide protection and contribute to survival
Students apply their new learning by:

investigating how much water the teacher, students and the class pet drink during a day, and using the data to compare the water needs of animals and humans
Linking science with literacy

In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development.
In Staying alive, students represent and explain their understanding about the basic needs of living things, by creating these representations:

Annotated drawing
Graph
Ideas map
Data table
Sorting diagram
Storyboard
T-chart
Word wall