Habitats, Features and Life Cycles F-2

Connect 

Use the activities in the Teaching Guide (below) to spark students’ curiosity before their zoo visit. 

Connect and Understand 

Students will be supported to explore using their senses and learn observational skills. They will identify the features, habitats, and needs of Australian animals. By participating in guided discussions and listening, students will discover what makes Australian animals so unique and how they can help to care for them and the environment.

Your Park visit will include: an introduction to the day, Zoo Teacher workshop (30 minutes), and a self guided walking trail. Check out your Teaching Guide for other ideas of what to do at the Park.  

Understand 

Use activities in the Teaching Guide to deepen students’ learning back at school. 

Act 

Use the Teaching Guide to enable students to master their knowledge and skills in real-world contexts. 

Living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water and shelter, are met (VCSSU042)

• Students will encounter Australian animals, learn to recognise their common features and uses of these; identify natural habitats and how changes to these affect an animal’s survival

Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (VCSIS050)

• Students are encouraged to bring and consider questions about Australian animals, particularly endangered wildlife

Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (VCSIS051)

• Students are encouraged to use their senses to gather first-hand information about the natural Australian environment and the animals that live there