VC2S2U01
Parents start here
Your child is learning to sort animals or plants into groups their own way, like 'has wings' or 'lives in water'.
- Group a set of organisms using at least two different criteria (e.g. by habitat, by body covering, by diet)
- Explain the reasoning behind each grouping choice
One skill from the map, ages 8–9 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in Science, Foundation to Level 2. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — Science ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — ✓ marks codes where Victoria kept the national numbering; all correspondences are machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features
compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs
recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
21 other candidate matches — 4 medium, 17 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science Understanding strand (Foundation to Level 2):
VC2S2U02VC2S2U03VC2S2U04VC2S2U05VC2S2U06VC2S2U07VC2S2U08VC2S2U09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.