How can you tell they’ve got it: How minibeasts move?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Describe at least three different ways minibeasts move such as crawling, flying, and slithering; Match a minibeast to its way of moving, for example grasshoppers jump and worms slither; Count legs on a minibeast and notice that ants have six while spiders have eight. Or just try it together: Can your child watch a few minibeasts and describe how each one moves differently — like ants crawling, butterflies flying, and worms wriggling?

Science Insects & Minibeasts Ages 5–7

How minibeasts move

Your child can describe how minibeasts move. Ants crawl, butterflies fly, and worms wriggle. They can count legs too — an ant has six, a spider has eight.

In curriculum terms

How minibeasts move: crawling (ants, beetles), flying (butterflies, bees), slithering (worms, slugs), jumping (grasshoppers, fleas), burrowing (earthworms). Counting legs as a first step toward grouping creatures.

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Describe at least three different ways minibeasts move such as crawling, flying, and slithering
Match a minibeast to its way of moving, for example grasshoppers jump and worms slither
Count legs on a minibeast and notice that ants have six while spiders have eight

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Try this together

Can your child watch a few minibeasts and describe how each one moves differently — like ants crawling, butterflies flying, and worms wriggling?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Common minibeasts: naming and recognisingages 5–7Must recognise common minibeasts before comparing how they move

How minibeasts movethis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

The insect body planages 7–9Counting legs and observing movement prepares for formal body plan study

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 NSW · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

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

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

STE-SCI-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Early Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U10low 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.

Nearby on the map

Caring for minibeastsages 5–7 Caterpillar to butterflyages 5–7 Common minibeasts: naming and recognisingages 5–7 Minibeast Habitatsages 5–7

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