By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- understand that an ecosystem is a community of animals, plants and microorganisms together;
- identify and differentiate between a variety of common ecosystems such as rainforest, water, animals, fish, algae etc.
Curriculum Alignment: Year 4 Science: Living Things and their Habitats
- explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment
- recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things
- construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey