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A1BLY
In this unit, students
- understand how classification helps to organise, analyse and communicate data about biodiversity
- understand that ecosystem diversity and dynamics can be described and compared with reference to biotic and abiotic components and their interactions
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct, evaluate and communicate investigations into biodiversity and flows of matter and energy in a range of ecosystems
- evaluate claims about relationships between and within species, diversity of and within ecosystems, and energy and matter flows
A2BLY
In this unit, students
- understand that the structure and function of cells and their components are related to the need to exchange matter and energy with their immediate environment
- investigate the ways in which matter moves and energy is transformed /transferred in the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. Investigate the role of enzymes in controlling biochemical systems.
- understand that multicellular organisms consist of multiple interdependent and hierarchically-organised systems that enable an exchange of matter and energy with their immediate environment
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct, evaluate and communicate investigations into the structure and function of cells and multicellular organisms
- evaluate claims about cellular processes and the structure and function of multicellular organisms
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