VC2S2U02
Parents start here
By the end of Foundation to Level 2: 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).
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 — machine-suggested candidates, 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
compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
describe daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence1 skill
13 other candidate matches — 5 medium, 8 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science Understanding strand (Foundation to Level 2):
VC2S2U01VC2S2U03VC2S2U04VC2S2U05VC2S2U06VC2S2U07VC2S2U08VC2S2U09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.