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Book 51: Standing Up: Skeletons and Frameworks
Synopsis
Standing Up provides opportunities for children to focus on the relationship between structure and function in plants and to relate this to the way people choose materials and design frameworks when they construct buildings. The book is designed so that the Living World, Material World, and Physical World concepts may be approached separately or together. For example:
- the children could study the Living World concepts (which apply to plants and animals) independently of the Material World and Physical World concepts (which apply to buildings and other structures)
- the children could study the plant topics and the animal topics separately
- the concepts could be combined to provide a "big picture" of the structural principles that occur in living things and how human technologies often mimic, or are based on, these natural principles. (The arrows in the concept overview indicate how the concepts may be linked together.)
The Material World and Physical World concepts in Standing Up that apply to structures relate closely to the technology curriculum.
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 Standing Up: Skeletons and Frameworks.
Read the concept overview
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Links with other titles in the series
- Book 17: Flight (L1–4, Living World, Physical World)
- Book 35: Is This a Plant? (L1–2, Living World)
- Book 39: Is This an Animal? (L1–4, Living World)
- Book 63: Growing Plants Indoors (L1–2, Living World)
Assessment resources
Search the science section of the Assessment Resource Banks (ARB) website to find resources that assess the 'big idea' learning outcomes referred to in the concept overview for this title.