Year 4.pdf

Children are expected to understand climate change, its causes, and impacts on the world, nature, and humans. They should know that climate change is the long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns, caused largely by human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, releasing greenhouse gases, and contributing to global warming.

The expected knowledge includes:
- Climate change definition and causes
- Impact on world climate, weather, nature, and humans
- Effects on local areas, such as Kent, including rising sea levels, hotter summers, and warmer winters
- Potential future consequences if nothing is done, including regional changes, species extinction, and increased natural disasters

Skills required include:
- Physical geography, such as climate zones and biomes
- Human geography, including types of settlement and land use
- Map skills, such as using grid references and locating countries
- Critical thinking, such as predicting and hypothesizing

Vocabulary to be learned includes:
- Climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, fossil fuels
- Humidity, heat-waves, drought, floods
- Sustainability, carbon footprint, energy efficient

Children should be able to explain how they can personally contribute to reducing climate change by:
- Reducing energy use and waste
- Using alternative energy sources
- Respecting and protecting green spaces
- Reducing water waste and promoting sustainable practices
- Applying these principles to minimize their carbon footprint.