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ScienceOcean Lifeusually ages 7–9

Classifying Ocean Animals

Classify ocean animals into major groups: fish (breathe through gills, have scales), marine mammals (breathe air, warm-blooded, feed milk), and invertebrates (no backbone — jellyfish, octopuses, crabs, starfish)

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Try this together

If your child saw pictures of a tuna, a seal, and a jellyfish, could they sort them into fish, marine mammals, and invertebrates, and explain what makes each group different?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Ocean Animal Varietyages 5–7Classifying ocean animals builds on knowing the variety exists
Whales & Dolphins Are Mammalsages 5–7Classifying marine mammals vs fish builds on whale/dolphin are mammals concept
Classifying Ocean Animalsthis skill · ages 7–9
Unlocks
Ocean Food Websages 7–9Food webs benefit from knowing animal classification groups
Grouping Living Thingsages 8–9Marine animal classification benefits from curriculum grouping-living-things skill

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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U01low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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