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ScienceAnimals of the Worldusually ages 5–7

How Animals Have Babies

Know that different animals have their babies in different ways — some lay eggs (birds, reptiles, fish, insects), some give birth to live young (most mammals) — and that babies may look like miniature adults or look very different from their parents

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If your child sees a nest with eggs in a nature programme, can they explain that birds lay eggs and the babies hatch out, but dogs and cats have their babies born alive?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Animals Everywhereages 5–7Animal babies builds on knowing animals live in diverse environments
How Animals Have Babiesthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Animal Life Stagesages 6–7Animal babies topic enriched by curriculum coverage of offspring and life stages
Offspring resemble parentsages 6–11Animal babies looking different from parents connects to curriculum offspring resemblance topic

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

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

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 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

VC2S4U02low confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Understanding strand
VC2S4U01low confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Understanding strand
VC2S2U03low 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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