National

Science curriculum framework

Student outcomes and links to relevant activities

Pest Tales links directly to the following curriculum profiles and is designed for primary students, specifically years 5 and 6.

Level 3	Science
Strand	Organiser	Outcome		Evident when students:	Lesson plan
Life and living	Living together	3.7	Maps relationships between living things in a habitat.	Make lists, photographs and diagrams showing plants and creatures that coexist in habitats such as trees, ponds or compost heaps. Draw a food chain showing hierarchies of consumers. Make a list of plants and animals that would live together in an aquarium, terrarium or garden. Write a story about survival from the point of view of an animal in the middle of the food chain in a natural habitat, a garden or a farm.	Pest power The pest project Food for thought
Life and living	Biodiversity, change and continuity	3.9	Explains why some living things have become extinct and identifies current endangered species.	Identify some endangered or extinct Australian animals and discuss reasons why. Describe the impact of environmental changes on native plants and animals (the introduction of feral plants and animals, pollution of river systems, disruptions such as floods and bushfires, the effects of farming). Investigate ways we conserve endangered species by protecting habitats and introducing legal restrictions.	Pest power The pest project Food for thought Unwelcome visitor Pests in the school yard Something fishy Magpie madness Trap a toad
Working scientifically	Acting responsibly	3.18	Identifies ways science is used responsibly in the community.	Talk about the ways that science in used in tackling problems such as pollution and endangered species.	The pest project Unwelcome visitor Pests in the school yard Something fishy Magpie madness Trap a toad