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What do we want students to learn?

Learners will know:

• Living things all have common characteristics.
  
• Biodiversity is linked to the quality of the environment and the health of all living things.
• Food chains and food webs show feeding relationships and the transfer of energy between organisms.
• Scientific evidence enables us to make informed decisions about, and for, the environment.

Learners will be able to:

• Demonstrate relationships between organisms by creating food chains and food web models.
• Explain the physical, cultural and social impacts (short and long term) of threats to living things and their effect on loss of biodiversity.
• Investigate and reflect on environmental issues that affect their lives.