Classification and Adaptations Year 7-8

Connect 

Use the activities in the Teaching Guide (below) to spark students’ curiosity before their zoo visit. 

Connect and Understand 

Students will undertake animal observations, explore artefacts and visit animal habitats to help them understand the complex world of animal adaptations and classification. Students can use their newfound understanding of animal classification to classify the diversity of the animal kingdom at Kyabram Fauna Park.

Your Park visit will include: an introduction to the day, Zoo Teacher workshop (30 minutes), and a self-guided walking trail. Check out your Teaching Guide for other ideas of what to do at the Park.  

Understand 

Use activities in the Teaching Guide to deepen students’ learning back at school. 

Act 

Use the Teaching Guide to enable students to master their knowledge and skills in real-world contexts. 

There are differences within and between groups of organisms; classification helps organise this diversity (VCSSU091) 

• Students will learn about classification systems and, through facilitated observations of organisms living and once living, note the differences and classify in a range of ways 

Identify, analyse and explain interconnections within places and between places and identify and explain changes resulting from these interconnections (VCGGC101) 

• Students will learn about the impact of humans on places, habitats and ecosystems and what effect these impacts may have