Your students will embark on an exciting exploration adventure through an ancient, lost forest in this Year 3 Biological Sciences Living Things & Life Cycles unit.

The inquiry-based unit focuses on classifying living, non-living and once-living things, as well as life cycles. After being introduced to the inquiry big question and completing some engaging activities during the hook and discovery stages, your students will be guided to learn all about MRS GREN.

Two fun investigations will be carried out during the unit. The first will support the students in learning and using the science inquiry skills. The second investigation will see them applying their skills to independently complete an investigation for assessment. A comprehensive marking rubric is provided.

After learning how to classify items as living, non-living and once-living, the unit progresses to examine life cycles. Many example life cycles are provided in the PowerPoint and the display resources. The exploration (and unit) end with another assessment that focuses on comparing life cycles and answering the inquiry big question. Another assessment rubric is provided.

This unit includes everything that you need to confidently plan, teach and assess 8 lessons of Biological Sciences, Science Inquiry and Science as a Human Endeavour V9 Australian Curriculum aligned content.

The unit plan package downloads as a zip file and contains the following resources:

• Unit Guide: includes a scope and sequence, unit overview, lesson plans with associated resources, assessments, rubrics, suggested resources and tiered vocabulary lists.
• PowerPoint: provides supplementary information for each lesson and follows Eddie the explorer on his exciting expedition.
• Displays: a unit banner, explanation posters for MRS GREN, a range of life cycle posters and word wall cards.