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Year 5

Natural resources: what are they, where are they found, why are they important?

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  • Interconnection
  • Natural resources
  • Sustainability and climate change

  1. Introducing natural resources
  2. Identifying renewable and non-renewable energy sources
  3. Global food production and its impacts
  4. Economic minerals and their uses
  5. Wood and its many uses
  6. Water: our essential resource

Local and global: why are trees and forests important?

This builds on 'Local area: Why are trees and forests important?', learning about the value of trees as a natural resource in the local area to learn about different types of natural resources globally, their unequal distribution, and some of the threats they face or pose.

South America: why does the Amazon matter?

This unit supports 'South America: Why does the Amazon matter?' and learning about why the Amazon matters, with its vast natural resources of water, forests and biodiversity, and to 'Energy: How do we power the world?', which explores energy in more detail.

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