Year 6 -Balancing Act

Year 6 students explore how physical habitat conditions influence the survival of living things and how human actions can change these conditions. Through real-world examples such as Swift Parrots and Thylacines, students investigate how factors including food, shelter, space and environmental stability affect species survival and population outcomes.

Through inquiry-based learning and case study analysis, students examine cause-and-effect relationships between environmental change and living things. They also discover how human behaviour can both harm ecosystems and support conservation through habitat restoration, breeding programs and community education.

This program strengthens scientific thinking, environmental awareness and data interpretation skills while connecting classroom learning to real conservation work.

Program Highlights

Students will learn to:

Identify physical habitat conditions that support survival
Explain cause-and-effect relationships between environmental change and species outcomes
Describe how human behaviour impacts living things
Analyse scientific information to identify patterns and trends
Communicate findings using scientific language, diagrams and visual representations

By the end of the unit, students can explain how changes in physical conditions affect living things and evaluate how human actions influence ecosystems using evidence-based reasoning.

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