Extreme Adaptations

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Monday to Friday during school term

Year 5 & 6

Science - Biological Sciences

Facilitated by museum staff

60 minutes per session, rotations for large groups will require a reset period.

Queensland Museum Tropics, Townsville

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$7.50 per student
28 students per session

Book in for our facilitated school program Extreme Adaptations where students explore how animals and plants have adapted to live in natural environments.

Program overview

This facilitated school program introduces students to a variety of natural environments, including the deep sea, mangroves and rainforest. Here, students will discover some of the unique and fascinating animals and plants that have adapted to call these places home. Students will then work collaboratively, using their creativity and knowledge of these adaptations, to design a new species and present it to the group.

Learning outcomes

Students will:

recognise and understand the function of adaptations that enable living things to survive in extreme environments
differentiate between behavioural and structural adaptations
identify the environmental factors that influence adaptations and how changes in these factors might impact the survival of living things
describe and communicate their understanding of these features through verbal explanation and drawings/diagrams.

Curriculum Links V9.0

Year 5 Science
Science understanding
Biological sciences	Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01)
Science Inquiry
Questioning and predicting	Pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions (AC9S5I01)
Processing, modelling and analysing	Construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships (AC9S5I04)
Communicating	Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I06)

Year 6 Science
Science understanding
Biological sciences	Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions (AC9S6U01)
Science Inquiry
Questioning and predicting	Pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions (AC9S6I01)
Processing, modelling and analysing	Construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships (AC9S6I04)
Communicating	Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S6I06)