Teach all 16 lessons of Stage 2 Science Unit 4, Built to Move, with one ready-to-project PowerPoint that puts every resource, question and task on the screen.

This student-facing PowerPoint covers the complete NSW Department of Education sample unit for Year 3 and Year 4 science: 461 editable slides across 16 lessons, plus 4 consolidation activities. Each lesson follows the unit's structure of Beginning the lesson, Core lesson and Concluding the lesson, so the class always knows where they are and what comes next.

The learning journey takes students from classifying vertebrates and invertebrates, through the ways animals move on land, in water and in the sky, to the human skeleton and muscular system — which bones protect, which bones support, and how muscles work in pairs to pull bones into movement. The final lessons have students build and test working models of a hinge joint and a ball and socket joint, then write and present a scientific explanation of how a joint works.

The 16 lessons cover

1. Vertebrates and invertebrates
2. Invertebrates with exoskeletons
3. Invertebrates without exoskeletons
4. Movement on land
5. Movement in water
6. Movement in the sky
7. The human skeleton
8. Protective bones
9. Supportive bones
10. The muscular system
11. Flexibility
12. Coordinated movement
13. Modelling hinge joints
14. Modelling ball and socket joints
15. Explaining joints
16. Multimodal text

Plus four consolidation activities: Build a skeleton, Ingenious invertebrates, Exoskeleton exploration and Created creatures.

Each lesson includes

• Learning intention and success criteria at the start and again on the concluding slide
• Key language cards defining the lesson's vocabulary
• True or false and check-for-understanding prompts with click-to-reveal answers
• The unit's animal cards, invertebrate fact sheets, labelled skeleton diagrams, comparison tables and writing checklists shown on screen
• Live links to the unit's videos and websites, with the exact section to watch shown on every video slide
• Your turn task cards that set out each hands-on investigation and model step by step
• A challenge slide for early finishers
• Optional assessment and reflection prompts
• A linked contents page and an INDEX button on every lesson title slide, so you can jump straight to the lesson you are teaching

Curriculum alignment

NSW Science and Technology K–6 Syllabus (2024), Stage 2. Focus area: physical and living systems depend on energy.

• ST2-SCI-01 — investigating how energy affects living, physical and geological systems, applied here to animal movement and the human skeletal and muscular systems
• ST2-DAT-01 — using and interpreting data to describe patterns and relationships, applied here to comparing how animals move in different environments

Perfect for

• Stage 2 teachers delivering the NSW Science and Technology Unit 4 sample unit
• Year 3 and Year 4 science lessons on animal classification, skeletons, muscles and joints
• Whole-class explicit teaching on an interactive whiteboard or classroom screen
• Low-prep NSW science programming for the term
• Relief and casual teachers picking up a lesson mid-unit
• Hands-on model making and scientific explanation writing
• Team teaching across a stage with a shared, consistent deck

Please note

Teachers will need access to the relevant Stage 2 Science and Technology Unit 4 lesson materials to gain the full benefit of this resource. This PowerPoint is designed to support the delivery of the unit and does not replace the complete teacher guidance, lesson notes, source materials or professional learning provided with the original unit. Videos and websites are linked rather than embedded, so an internet connection is needed to play them. The resource is adapted from the NSW Department of Education sample unit under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; syllabus content is © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) 2024. This is a teaching resource and is not an official NESA or Department product.

Several lessons involve hands-on investigation and model making. The materials used are listed on the slides and are not included with this resource.

File details

• One PowerPoint file (.pptx), fully editable
• 461 slides in 16:9 widescreen format, 19.7 MB
• All 16 lessons, the 4 consolidation activities and a Terms of Use slide in the one file
• 158 click-to-reveal answers and 32 linked videos and websites
• Stage 2, Years 3 and 4
• Digital download
• Single-teacher licence, with additional licences available for colleagues

Open the deck, project it and teach – every lesson in the unit is already sequenced, structured and ready for your class.