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Parents start here
By the end of Year 1: your child knows what plants and animals need to live.
- List the basic needs of animals: water, food, air, shelter
- List the basic needs of plants: water, light, air, suitable temperature
One skill from the map, ages 5–7 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
“identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs”
Official source: Australian Curriculum v9 — Science ↗ · Content © ACARA, CC BY 4.0 · unofficial reference — verify at the official site
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence2 skills
19 other candidate matches — 10 medium, 9 low
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science understanding strand:
AC9S1U02AC9S1U03
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.