Topic 1. Life Processes and the Variety of Life

Key Stage 1   

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1a. the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive

1b. that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce

1c. to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment. :

2a. to recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals.

2e. how to treat animals with care and sensitivity

2f.  that humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow into adults

2g. about the senses that enable humans and other animals to be aware of the world around them.

4b. group living things according to observable similarities and differences.

Key Stage 2

1a. that the life processes common to humans and other animals include nutrition, movement, growth and reproduction

1c. to make links between life processes in familiar animals and plants and the environments in which they are found.

4 a. to make and use keys.

4 b. how locally occurring animals and plants can be identified and assigned to groups

4 c. that the variety of plants and animals makes it important to identify them and assign them to groups.

Key Stage 3

4b. to classify living things into the major taxonomic groups

Topic 2. Living Things in their Environment

Key Stage 1   

5a. find out about the different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment

5b. identify similarities and differences between local environments and ways in which these affect animals and plants that are found there

5c. care for the environment.

Key Stage 2

5a. about ways in which living things and the environment need protection

5b. about the different plants and animals found in different habitats.

5c. how animals and plants in two different habitats are suited to their environment

5d. to use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat

5e. about how nearly all food chains start with a green plant.

Key Stage 3

5a. about ways in which living things and the environment can be protected, and the importance of sustainable development

5b. that habitats support a diversity of plants and animals that are interdependent

5c. how some organisms are adapted to survive daily and seasonal changes in their habitats

5d. how predation and competition for resources affect the size of populations [for example, bacteria, growth of vegetation]

5e.  about food webs composed of several food chains, and how food chains can be quantified using pyramids of numbers

5 f. how toxic materials can accumulate in food chains.

Key Stage 4

4a. how the distribution and relative abundance of organisms in habitats can be explained using ideas of interdependence, adaptation, competition and predation.

4b. how the impact of humans on the environment depends on social and economic factors, including population size, industrial processes and levels of consumption and waste

4c. about the importance of sustainable development.