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