• Age groups: 7-11s
• Subjects: Computing, Science
• Topics: Biodiversity

Curriculum links

England

Science

Sc2 Life processes and living things

Variation and classification

Pupils should be taught:

• to make and use keys (4a)
• how locally occurring animals and plants can be identified and assigned to groups (4b)
• that the variety of plants and animals makes it important to identify them and assign them to groups (4c)

ICT

Finding things out

Pupils should be taught:

• how to prepare information for development using ICT, including selecting suitable sources, finding information, classifying it and checking it for accuracy [for example ... classifying by characteristics...] (1b)

Scotland

Sciences

Planet Earth

Biodiversity and interdependence

• I can distinguish between living and non living things. I can sort living things into groups and explain my decisions. (SCN 1-01a)
• I can identify and classify examples of living things, past and present, to help me appreciate their diversity. I can relate physical and behavioural characteristics to their survival or extinction. (SCN 2-01a)

Technologies

ICT to enhance learning

• As I extend and enhance my knowledge of features of various types of software, including those which help find, organise, manage and access information, I can apply what I learn in different situations. (TCH 1-03a / TCH 2-03a)

Wales

Science

Skills

• Pupils should be given opportunities to communicate clearly by speech, writing, drawings, diagrams, charts, tables ... and ICT packages, using relevant scientific vocabulary
• Pupils should be given opportunities to carry out different types of enquiry, e.g. ... classifying and identifying
• Pupils ... make careful observations and accurate measurements, using digital and ICT equipment at times

Range

Interdependence of organisms

• Pupils should be given opportunities to study, through fieldwork, the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments, e.g. identification, nutrition, life cycles, place in environment

ICT

Skills

• Pupils should be given opportunities to produce and use databases to ask and answer questions, e.g. search, sort and graph

Range

• Pupils should be given opportunities to use ICT to explore and to solve problems in the context of work across a variety of subjects

Northern Ireland

Science

Interdependence

Pupils should be enabled to explore:

• how they and others interact in the world
• how living things rely on each other within the natural world

ICT

Interdependence

Pupils should be enabled to:

• investigate, make predictions and solve problems through interaction with digital tools