Curriculum Links
Curriculum Links - England
Key Stage 2 - Science
Life Processes
1. Pupils should be taught:
that the life processes common to humans and other animals include nutrition, movement, growth and reproduction
to make links between life processes in familiar animals and plants and the environments in which they are found
Variation and classification
2. Pupils should be taught:
to make and use keys
how locally occurring animals and plants can be identified and assigned to groups
that the variety of plants and animals makes it important to identify them and assign them to groups
Living things in their environment
5. Pupils should be taught:
about ways in which living things and the environment need protection
about the different plants and animals found in different habitats
how animals and plants in two different habitats are suited to their environment
to use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat
about how nearly all food chains start with a green plant
Keystage 2 - Geography
Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development
5. Pupils should be taught to:
recognise how people can improve the environment or damage it and how decisions about places and environments affect the future quality of people's lives
recognise how and why people may seek to manage environments sustainably, and to identify opportunities for their own involvement
Curriculum Links - Scotland
Science - Living Things and the Processes of Life
Variety & characteristic features
Level A:
Sort living things into broad groups according to easily observable characteristics
Level B:
Give some of the more obvious distinguishing features of the major invertebrate groups
Name some common members of the invertebrate groups
Level C:
Give some of the more obvious distinguishing features of the five vertebrate groups
Name some common members of the vertebrate groups
Name some common animals and plants using simple keys
Level E: Create and use keys to identify living things
The processes of life
Level A:
Give the conditions needed by animals and plants in order to remain healthy
Level B:
Recognise stages in the life cycles of familiar plants and animals
Interaction of living things with their environment
Level A:
Recognise and name some common plants and animals found in the local environment
Give examples of how to care for living things and the environment
Level B: Give examples of feeding relationships found in the local environment
Construct simple food chains
Level C:
Explain how living things and the environment can be protected and give examples
Level D:
Describe examples of human impact on the environment that have brought about beneficial changes, and examples that have detrimental effects
Give examples of how plants and animals are suited to their environment
Explain how responses to changes in the environment might increase the chances of survival
Level E:
Construct and interpret simple food webs and make predictions of the consequences of change
Describe examples of competition between plants and between animals
Give examples of physical factors that affect the distribution of living things
Social Subjects - People and Place
Human-physical interactions
Level B:
Give some ways in which everyday resources are conserved or recycled locally
Level C:
Describe ways in which resources in Scotland are conserved and recycled
