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Parts of a Plant

Identify and describe the basic structure of common flowering plants (roots, stem, leaves, flowers) and trees (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)

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Try this together

If you pick a flower from the garden, can your child point to the roots, stem, leaves, and petals and say what each part does?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Common Plants & Treesages 5–6Must know plant names before learning about their parts
Parts of a Plantthis skill · ages 5–6
Unlocks
How Plant Parts Workages 7–8Must know basic plant structure before learning about function of each part

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

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

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9SFU01low confidenceFoundation · Science understanding

observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

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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