Echidna Features Mini Pack — Year 1 Science
A simple, engaging Year 1 Science mini lesson where students explore echidna spines, snout, claws and shelter. Includes teacher guidance, student activity, support scaffold, exit ticket and answer key.
The Echidna Features Mini Pack is a practical, print-ready Year 1 Science resource designed to help students observe, name and describe the external features of a short-beaked echidna. It supports learning around how animals meet their needs in the places they live, with a clear focus on echidna spines, snout, claws, shelter and food.
Students learn how echidna features help the animal stay safe, find food, dig and shelter. The pack includes a short student reading, a label-and-explain activity, a puggle drawing task, an exit ticket, support scaffold and answer key. It is suitable for classroom lessons, relief teaching, homeschool science, Year 1 core learning, and Years 1–2 revision or support.
This resource is designed to support Australian Curriculum v9 Science AC9S1U01 and includes an inquiry skill connection to AC9S1I03, as students make observations and record simple explanations about echidna features.
What You’ll Get:
- Teacher Guide
- Student Reading: Meet the Echidna
- Student Activity: Label and Explain
- Puggle drawing and writing task
- Exit Ticket
- 🪜 GROW Support Scaffold
- Simple Answer Key
- One 45–60 minute lesson
- Print-ready combined resource
- Year 1 primary Science alignment, with Years 1–2 revision/support use
Licence Options:
Single Teacher Licence:
One-off purchase for one individual teacher, parent, carer, homeschool educator or tutor. Includes the current version of the resource only. Future updates are not included.
Team Licence — 3–5 Teachers:
12-month licence for a small teaching team of 3–5 teachers within the same school, campus, homeschool co-op or organisation. Includes access to resource updates released during the active 12-month licence period.
Whole School Licence:
12-month licence for use by staff at one school site or campus. Includes access to resource updates released during the active 12-month licence period.
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