• Age groups: 4-7s
• Subjects: Science
• Topics: Biodiversity

Curriculum links

England

Science

Sc2

Life processes and living things

Life processes

Pupils should be taught:

• the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive (1a)
• that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce (1b)
• to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment (1c)

Living things in their environment

Pupils should be taught to:

• find out about the different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment (5a)
• identify similarities and differences between local environments and ways in which these affect animals and plants that are found there (5b)
• care for the environment (5c)

Art and Design

Investigating and making art, craft and design

Pupils should be taught to:

• investigate the possibilities of a range of materials and processes (2a)
• try out tools and techniques and apply these to materials and processes, including drawing (2b)
• represent observations, ideas and feelings, and design and make images and artefacts (2c)

Evaluating and developing work

Pupils should be taught to:

• review what they and others have done and say what they think and feel about it (3a)
• identify what they might change in their current work or develop in their future work (3b)

Scotland

Science

Planet Earth 

Biodiversity and interdependence

• I have observed living things in the environment over time and am becoming aware of how they depend on each other. (SCN 0-01a)
• 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 explore examples of food chains and show an appreciation of how animals and plants depend on each other for food. (SCN 1-02a)

Technologies

Technological developments in society

• Within and beyond my place of learning, I can reduce, re-use and recycle resources I use, to help care for the environment. (TCH 0-02a)
• Throughout all my learning, I take appropriate action to ensure conservation of materials and resources, considering the impact of my actions on the environment (TCH 1-02a)

Expressive Arts

Art and design

• I have the freedom to discover and choose ways to create images and objects using a variety of materials. (EXA 0-02a)
• I have the opportunity to choose and explore a range of media and technologies to create images and objects, discovering their effects and suitability for specific tasks. (EXA 1-02a)
• I can create and present work using the visual elements of line, shape, form, colour, tone, pattern and texture. (EXA 1-03a)
• Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design. (EXA 0-05a / EXA 1-05a / EXA 2-05a)

Northern Ireland

The World Around Us

Interdependence

Pupils should be enabled to explore:

• how plants and animals rely on each other within the natural world
• interdependence of people and the environment
• the effect of people on the natural environment over time
• interdependence of people, plants, animals and place

Place

Pupils should be enabled to explore:

• ways in which living things depend on and adapt to their environment
• positive and negative effects of people on places

Change Over Time

Pupils should be enabled to explore:

• positive change and how we have a responsibility to make an active contribution

The Arts

Art and Design

Pupils should be enabled to:

• investigate and respond to direct sensory experience; including visual, verbal, spatial and tactile dimensions, memory and imagination
• look at and talk about resource material to stimulate their own ideas
• talk about their own and others’ work and how it was made, use observations to identify difficulties and suggest modifications
• experiment with a range of media, materials, tools and processes such as: drawing, painting, printmaking, malleable materials, textiles and three-dimensional construction

Wales

Science

Life Processes and Living Things

1. Life processes

Pupils should be taught:

• the differences between things that are living and things that are not living

Living Things in their environment

Pupils should be taught:

• to find out about the different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment, e.g. how plants and animals change through the seasons.
• that animals and plants can be grouped according to observable similarities and differences.

Making Art

Pupils should be taught to:

• Explore and experiment with the visual language of art, craft and design, the elements of which include:
• Pattern e.g. natural and made patterns
• Texture e.g. rough and smooth textures
• Shape e.g. simple shapes from nature and the made world during which pupils should be given opportunities to:
• Make objects, images and artefacts in two and three dimensions for a variety of purposes using a range of materials, tools, processes and techniques.