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Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and other living things in the local environment

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how habitats provide for basic needs and how organisms depend on each…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify different sources of food

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats such as under a log or in a pond

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers and challenges to living things

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Construct and interpret food chains identifying producers, predators, and prey, and understand energy transfer between trophic levels

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways based on observable features

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive, such as herds, packs, or colonies

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects, and birds, comparing metamorphosis with direct development

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment in an ecosystem

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe how living things are classified into broad groups (micro-organisms, plants, animals) according to common observable characteristics, similarities, and…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Construct and interpret food webs showing the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, explaining how a change in one population affects others

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explain the importance of insect pollination for plant reproduction and human food security, and discuss the consequences of pollinator decline

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explain how energy is transferred between trophic levels in a food chain, why energy is lost at each stage, and use pyramids of biomass/numbers to represent…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe the water cycle, tracing water through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, surface runoff, and transpiration in plants, explaining how the sun…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explain how environmental change can outpace a species' ability to adapt through natural selection, leading to extinction, using historical and contemporary…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe the carbon cycle, tracing carbon through photosynthesis, respiration, feeding, decomposition, and combustion, and explain the role of each process

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explain natural selection as the mechanism of evolution: heritable variation + competition for resources + differential survival and reproduction = change in…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe the main types of evidence for evolution: the fossil record (change over time), comparative anatomy (homologous structures), and the geographic…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explain how environmental change (climate change, habitat loss, pollution) affects the distribution of species, including range shifts, local extinction, and…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explain variation within and between species, distinguishing between continuous variation (e.g. height) and discontinuous variation (e.g. blood group), and…