Wild, Farm & Pet Animals
Your child can sort animals into wild, farm, and pet. They know a wild animal finds its own food. It should be watched from afar, not touched.
In curriculum terms
Understand the difference between wild animals, farm animals, and pets — wild animals find their own food and shelter in nature; farm animals are kept by people for food, wool, or eggs; pets are animals people keep for companionship — and know that wild animals should be observed from a distance
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If your child sees a fox in the garden, can they explain that it's a wild animal — different from their pet cat or a farm sheep — and that wild animals look after themselves and shouldn't be touched?
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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 · 3 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs
explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter
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
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