Key Competency

Inquiry Taster

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Explore how human action affects natural features and resources. Explore how car emissions create air pollution. Explore how walking reduces car emissions which helps reduce air pollution.

• Define ‘Earth’s natural features’.
  
• Describe the spheres making up Planet Earth: water (hydrosphere)/ air (atmosphere)/ rocks and soil (geosphere)/ life forms (biosphere).
• Go on a “walking in, on and through the Earth’s spheres” field trip, e.g. paddle in a water source, lie on your back and gaze at the atmosphere (but not at the sun), and walk barefoot over the earth. Draw pictures and take photographs and use see>think>wonder, feel> think>wonder, hear>think>wonder, and smell>think>wonder, to describe your experiences exploring the spheres.
• Take a walking field trip around your local area to observe the Earth’s resources, natural features, natural events and human actions.