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Science / Year 4 / Science understanding / Biological sciences
Curriculum content descriptions
explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships (AC9S4U01)
Elaborations
- describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals
- observing living things in a local habitat and categorising them as producers, consumers or decomposers
- researching the different types of decomposers and their importance within a habitat
- representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats
- recognising how First Nations Australians perceive themselves as being an integral part of the environment
- investigating the impact of introduced predators such as foxes on small mammal species in Australia
- researching how the removal of a food source from within a habitat, such as through an insect or rodent infestation, affected other living things within that habitat
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Living things, Decomposition (Living things), Consumers (Food chains), Food chains, Producers (Food chains)