Habitats and the Environment : Subject Knowledge
Habitats A habitat is any part of the environment in which a community of organisms is found. A habitat must provide food, water, air (oxygen for respiration in all living things and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis in plants), warmth/shelter, light and a place to...
Circulation and Breathing : Subject Knowledge
Lungs and Breathing Every cell in the body carries out a process called respiration in order to release the energy it needs to function. Aerobic respiration requires oxygen and produces the waste gas carbon dioxide, so we need to breathe in and out in order to get the...
Classification of Living Things : Subject Knowledge
Living and Non-Living Things In the primary classroom, children should be able to group things into things that are living, dead and never been alive. Something like wood is dead, because it was once living, whilst something like metal has never been alive. There are...
Adaptation and Evolution : Subject Knowledge
The theory of evolution is one of the fundamental ideas in biology. It reveals how humans, and all living things are related, in a family tree of life, stretching back over 3 billion years. The main process driving evolution was first proposed by Charles Darwin (and...