Section 1: How does the environment influence the animals and plants living in a habitat?
Children should learn:
- that different habitats have different features
- that different habitats support different organisms
- that the distribution of organisms in different habitats is affected by environmental factors,
eg light, nutrients or water availability
- to organise, sequence and link what they say so listeners can follow it
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Section 2: a. How do environments vary?
Children should learn:
- that some animals are adapted to daily changes in their habitat
- how to measure and record changes in environmental factors
- how to interpret patterns in data
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Section 3: b. How do environments vary?
Children should learn:
- how to frame a question to be investigated
- how to decide what factors are relevant to a question
- about the importance of sample size
- to consider results in relation to the sample used
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Section 4: c. How do environments vary?
Children should learn:
- how some animals are adapted to seasonal changes in their habitats
- that adaptations may be to avoid climatic stress
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Section 5: Checking progress
Children should learn:
- to summarise and make connections between key ideas about adaptation to a habitat
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Section 6: a. What is a feeding relationship?
Children should learn:
- that animals have features which are adaptations against predators
- that animals are adapted to their particular food source
- to collect sufficient data to reduce error and obtain reliable evidence
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Section 7: b. What is a feeding relationship?
Children should learn:
- about characteristics of predator and prey species
- to join ideas within sentences using links of cause,
eg so, because, since
- that all the organisms in a habitat can be linked together in food webs
- that food webs are made up of a number of food chains which start with plants
- that arrows in a food chain represent energy transfer
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Section 8: a. What do food webs tell us?
Children should learn:
- to make careful observations of plants and animals and sources of evidence about animals' food
- to link organisms together in food webs
- that some plants have adaptations to deter animals from feeding on them
- to interpret evidence about food sources and draw conclusions from it
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Section 9: b. What do food webs tell us?
Children should learn:
- that all the organisms in a habitat can be linked together in food webs
- to find information using contents, index, glossary, key words or hotlinks
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Section 10: c. What do food webs tell us?
Children should learn:
- that factors influencing the number of organisms in one part of a food web have an effect on other parts of the web
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Section 11: Reviewing work
Children should learn:
- that organisms in a habitat compete for resources from the environment
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