Science - how we meet our needs

This Semester Kindergarten have been learning about living things and what living things need to survive. Today we looked at all the things people living in Canberra need. We discussed that for people like us in Canberra, we go to the supermarket to get food, we have a bedroom and home for shelter, and we can get water from a tap or buy it at the shops. We then discussed the traditional Ngunnawal People that lived in Canberra many years ago. We brainstormed how they would have gotten the things that they needed to survive. We decided that they would still need the same things as people do today, however they would get them in a different way. We shared that they might have gone hunting or fishing to get food, that they may use caves for shelter or build homes using mud, sticks and leaves, and that they would go to rivers or lakes to find water. This was a great way for us to learn more about the needs of living things and to think about our history and the traditional Ngunnawal people that lived here before us.

To demonstrate our learning we created posters to show the ways different people meet their needs.