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Book 4: Animal Life Histories: Reproduction, Growth, and Change
Synopsis
Animal Life Histories focuses on the process of growth and change that all animals undergo in their journey from fertilised egg to adulthood. Students can readily observe life's physical stages in people, pets, and other common kinds of animals around them.
Studying animals' life histories is a good entry point for building concepts about how living things develop (including metamorphosis) and survive - within their own lifetimes and through adaptations over the evolution of generations. It is also an opportunity to reinforce the idea that, in science, the word "animal" applies equally to such living things as mammals (including people), reptiles, fish, crustaceans, birds, spiders, snails, shellfish, insects, and worms.
Concept overview
Use the concept overview, which is also on the inside front cover of the book, as a reference for the concepts that relate to Animal Life Histories: Reproduction, Growth, and Change.
Read the concept overview (PDF 181 KB)
Links with other titles in the series
- Book 3. Birds (level 1-4, Living World)
- Book 6. Soil Animals (Level 1-4, Living World)
- Book 21. Life Between the Tides (Level 1-2, Living World)
- Book 22. Tidal Communities (Level 3-4, Living World)
- Book 39. Is This an Animal? (Level 1-4, Living World)
- Book 43. Spring (Level 1-2, Living World, Planet Earth and Beyond)
- Book 45. Slugs and Snails (Level 1-4, Living World)
- Book 55. Mammals (Level 3-4, Living World)
- Book 62. Spiders Everywhere! (Level 3-4, Living World)
Assessment resources
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