Year 7 · Science · beta

Climate change and living sustainably

This unit introduces the greenhouse effect, global warming and the impact of climate change on weather events. It explores some actions that can be taken to use resources, and to live, in a sustainable way.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

  • Organisms interact with the environment in which they live.
  • Changes to the environment may make it harder for organisms to survive in a particular habitat.
  • Each element has particular chemical properties.
  • A compound may have different properties to each of the elements that it is made from.
  • Heating a solid makes its particles vibrate more quickly.
  • In thermal conductors, vibrating particles quickly cause the particles near to them to vibrate as well.
  • In thermal insulators, it is hard for vibrating particles to cause the particles near to them to vibrate as well.
  • Air is a good thermal insulator because it is a gas.
  • Thermal insulators often contain trapped air.

Source curriculum references

  • Interpret observations and data, including identifying patterns and using observations, measurements and data to draw conclusions
  • Present reasoned explanations, including explaining data in relation to predictions and hypotheses
  • How organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment, including the accumulation of toxic materials
  • The composition of the atmosphere
  • The production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate
  • Changes with temperature in motion and spacing of particles

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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