Plant & Animal Reproduction
Your child knows plants make new plants in more than one way — from seeds, or from cuttings and runners. Animals may have live babies or lay eggs.
In curriculum terms
Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants
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Can your child explain different ways plants reproduce — not just from seeds but also from cuttings or runners — and how animals reproduce by having babies or laying eggs?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
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