Life and Living

 

2.1 Students look for patterns and relationships between the features of different living things and how those living things meet their needs.

2.2   Students illustrate changes which take place in the course of the life span of living things (including the growth of a plant and an animal).

Relationships between features and needs being met:

·        limbs — food collection, movement, protection

·        beaks, teeth — feeding, protection

·        skeleton — support, protection

·        body covering — protection, temperature control, camouflage

·        sense organs — finding food, water; avoiding harm; communicating

·        behaviour — nocturnal or diurnal, hibernation, care of young; deciduous or evergreen

·        roots — taking in water, nutrients

·        leaves — taking in sunlight, gases

·        flowers, cones, seeds — reproduction

Changes in living things during their life span:

·        growth, change in size and shape

·        change in colour

·        loss of leaves, hair

·        fruiting, flowering

·        germination of seeds

·        failing eyesight, loss of hearing

·        ageing, wrinkling of skin

·        wilting, withering

·        producing young, offspring

·        death

2.3 Students make links between different features of the environment and the specific needs of living things.

 

Components of the environment and supplying needs:

·        food — from other living things

·        air — for both plants and animals

·        shelter — in trees, in bark, under rocks; nests,  burrows

·        water — from the ground, bodies of water

·        sunlight — for plants

·        temperature — ways of keeping warm or cool