Northern Ireland

Interdependence

• How they and others interact in the world

  • Human organs and their functions (6-K.1)

• How living things rely on each other within the natural world

  • Identify mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians (6-I.1)
  • Identify vertebrates and invertebrates (6-I.2)
  • Describe, classify and compare kingdoms (6-I.5)
  • Read and construct animal life cycle diagrams (6-J.1)
  • Compare animal life cycles (6-J.2)
  • Flowering plant and conifer life cycles (6-L.4)
  • Moss and fern life cycles (6-L.5)
  • Identify roles in food chains (6-O.3)
  • How does matter move in food chains? (6-O.4)
  • Interpret food webs I (6-O.5)
  • Interpret food webs II (6-O.6)

• Interdependence of people and the environment and how this has been accelerated over time by advances in transport and communications

• The effect of people on the natural and built environment over time

  • Science literacy: how can a community protect sea turtles? (6-P.1)

Place

• How place influences the nature of life

  • Human organs and their functions (6-K.1)
  • Body systems: circulation and respiration (6-K.2)
  • Body systems: digestion (6-K.3)
  • Body systems: removing waste (6-K.4)
  • Body systems: perception and motion (6-K.5)
  • Identify ecosystems (6-O.1)
  • Describe ecosystems (6-O.2)
  • Identify roles in food chains (6-O.3)
  • How does matter move in food chains? (6-O.4)

• Ways in which people, plants and animals depend on the features and materials in places and how they adapt to their environment

  • Animal adaptations: beaks, mouths and necks (6-M.2)
  • Animal adaptations: feet and limbs (6-M.3)
  • Animal adaptations: skins and body coverings (6-M.4)
  • Evaluate natural energy sources (6-P.2)

• Features of, and variations in places, including physical, human, climatic, vegetation and animal life

• Our place in the universe

  • Shadows (6-U.1)
  • Earth's rotation and orbit (6-U.2)
  • Day and night (6-U.3)
  • Identify the planets in the solar system (6-U.9)

• Change over time in places

  • Change of state diagrams: melting, freezing, evaporating and condensing (6-B.1)
  • Change of state diagrams: melting, freezing, evaporating, condensing and sublimating (6-B.2)
  • Heating, cooling and changes of state (6-B.3)

• Positive and negative effects of natural and human events upon a place over time

  • Science literacy: how can a community protect sea turtles? (6-P.1)

Movement and Energy

• The causes and effect of energy, forces and movement

  • Identify directions of forces (6-D.1)
  • How do balanced and unbalanced forces affect motion? (6-D.2)
  • Electric circuits (6-G.2)
  • How does light travel and interact with matter? (6-H.2)
  • Evaluate natural energy sources (6-P.2)
  • Shadows (6-U.1)

• Causes that affect the movement of people and animals

  • Body systems: perception and motion (6-K.5)
  • Science literacy: how can a community protect sea turtles? (6-P.1)

• How movement can be accelerated by human and natural events such as wars, earthquakes, famine or floods

• Positive and negative consequences of movement and its impact on people, places and interdependence

Change Over Time

• How change is a feature of the human and natural world and may have consequences for our lives and the world around us

  • Read and construct animal life cycle diagrams (6-J.1)
  • Compare animal life cycles (6-J.2)
  • Flowering plant and conifer life cycles (6-L.4)
  • Moss and fern life cycles (6-L.5)
  • Label parts of water cycle diagrams (6-T.2)
  • Select parts of water cycle diagrams (6-T.3)

• Ways in which change occurs over both short and long periods of time in the physical and natural world

  • Change of state diagrams: melting, freezing, evaporating and condensing (6-B.1)
  • Change of state diagrams: melting, freezing, evaporating, condensing and sublimating (6-B.2)
  • Heating, cooling and changes of state (6-B.3)
  • Introduction to fossils (6-R.1)

• The effects of positive and negative changes globally and how we contribute to some of these changes

  • Science literacy: how can a community protect sea turtles? (6-P.1)