Week Lesson Key Knowledge Topic Notes /Materials / References

1
1
Environmental factors:
biotic and abiotic factors;
availability of resources
Biotic and Aboitic components
2
Environmental resources and their
availabilities

3
Habitat replacement: Response to a
media article Artificial reefs
Assessment task 1: Response to a media article Artificial Reefs:
http://media.smh.com.au/executive-style/executive-style-special/turning-
marine-deserts-into-forests-5698414.html
4 Test
2
5
Structural adaptations:
relating major features of
organisms to survival
value
Introducing structural adaptations
6
Fish structural features aiding
survival
DUE: Assessment task 1: Response to a media article Artificial Reefs:
http://media.smh.com.au/executive-style/executive-style-special/turning-
marine-deserts-into-forests-5698414.html
7 Practical activity designer fish
8 Practical activity designer fish
3
9 Test
10 Revision
11
Physiological adaptations
Introducing Physiological
adaptations

12
Mammal behavioural features aiding
survival

4
13
Practical activity Homeostasis
Prac

14
Practical activity Homeostasis
Prac
Assessment task 2 Homeostasis design prac
15
SAC 1 -
Assessment task - Animal Poster Presentation. Chose a animal and outline
some innate and learnt behaviours
16
Plant tropisms: growth
responses, rhythmic
activities
Introduction to Plant tropisms,
growth responses and rhythmic
activates

5
17 Practical activity Assessment task 2 Homeostasis design prac due
18 Practical activity
19 Plant investigating assignment
20 Revision
6
21
Test

22
Behavioural adaptations
and reproductive
adaptations
Field trip Parwan Valley
23 Field trip Parwan Valley
24
Class time on field report
presentation

7
25 Behavioural adaptations
26 Reproductive adaptations
27
Reproductive adaptations - Sex in
the sea youtube clips

28 SAC 2 Field trip Parwan Valley Multimedia presentations: See attached
8
29
Techniques used to
monitor environmental
change and species
distribution.
Introduction to Biostats and GIS
systems

30 Data analysis
31
Case study: Brisbane Rangers
Grass trees project

32 Test





Week Lesson Key Knowledge Topic Notes /Materials / References
1
1
Components of ecosystems:
communities of living organisms,
ecological groupings; ecological
niche
Producers and productivity
2 Food Chains
3 Flow of energy
4 Test
2
5
Relationships between organisms:
feeding including parasite/host,
predator/prey, of mutual benefit
including mutualism and
symbiosis
Introducing relationships between
organisms

6 Annotated poster
7 Annotated poster
8
Pairs Inquiry of an organism -
parasite/host, predator/prey, of
mutual benefit including mutualism
and symbiosis relationship

3
9 Revision
10 Test
11 Flow of energy: inputs and
outputs of the system;
productivity; trophic levels and
trophic efficiency
Introduction to Flow of energy:
inputs and outputs of the system;
productivity; trophic levels and
trophic efficiency

12 Shark Cull Debono activity
4
13 Shark Cull Debono activity
14 Tim Flannery quote analysis
15 SAC 1 - Environmental issue analysis: WA Shark Cull report
16 Cycling of matter: principle of
exchange between living and non-
living components of the
ecosystem, including inputs and
outputs; biogeochemical systems
including those of water, carbon,
oxygen, nitrogen; bioaccumulation
Cycling of matter
5
17 Nutrient Cycles
18 Carbon and Oxygen cycle
19 Bioaccumulation
20 Test
6
21 Revision
22
Population dynamics: carrying
capacity of ecosystems; factors
affecting distribution and
abundance of organisms including
birth and death rates, migration
Disturbance and Interruptions
23 Drifting continents and plates
24 Mass extinction
7
25 Origins of Australian organisms
26 Origins of Australian organisms
27 Succession
28
SAC 2 -
Carrying capacity: Case study Boom and Bust
(locus invasion: Landline video analysis)
8
29
Change to ecosystems over time
Dynamic ecosystems natural and
man induced

30
GIS analysis of resource
overexploitation

31 Case study Borneo 1932-210
32 Test