Unit 08 – A Great Leap Forward

New Basics

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SOSE
Time continuity and change
1.4 Students describe effects of a change over time in a familiar environment.
2.2 Students record changes and continuities in familiar settings using various devices.
 
Science
Science and society
1.2 Students collect information about natural phenomena and recognise that some ways of collecting information are more appropriate than others in different situations.
 1.4 Students make generalisations from observations made during an investigation
 
Life and living
1.1  Students discuss their thinking about needs of living things.
1.3 Students observe and describe components of familiar environments
1 .4 Students collect information about sources of food and shelter for animals in their local environment.
2.2 Students illustrate changes which take place in the course of the life span of living things (including the growth of a plant and an animal)

Natural and processed materials
1.4 Students explore changes caused by the action of living things on the properties of common materials.