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Mind Map on Living things, biodiversity and sustainability, created by emilymay20 on 15/06/2014.

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Living things, biodiversity and sustainabilityLinks to EYLF, Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world; they become sociallyresponsible and show respect for the environmentLiving things - plants and animals We are animals We rely on other animals and plants for our survival.Exploration of the natural world is a great starting point for children of any age.All living things respire, eat, excrete, grow, move, respond to stimuli and reproduceMarsupials -pouchMonotremes - eggsBiodiversity – we need a wide range of plants and animals to keep the world in balance. It is sometimes referredto as the ‘web of life’. Micro- Ecosystems can be modeled – for example compost heap, fish tanks,duck/frog/fish ponds. Impact of climate changeClimate change is caused by trapping excess carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. This trapped carbon pollution heatsup, altering the Earth's climate patterns. The largest source of this pollution is the burning of fossil fuels (suchas coal and oil) for energy.Under a carbon tax, companies that emit carbon pollution are forced to pay a direct tax to the governmentbased on the volume they emit. In effect, the dirtier the product or service being provided, the more expensiveit becomes for consumers to use them. The revenue from the tax is then returned to individuals (judiciously,and probably quite progressively – preferably through lower income tax rates), who ostensibly have an equalamount of disposable income. There is now a situation where consumers have the same amount of money, butdirty goods and services cost more. Therein lies the incentive for both consumers to change their spendingpreferences to cleaner goods, and for companies to do their work in a cleaner fashion.Tradable-permit system in which a greenhouse gases emitter (firm or country under obligation to limit its totalair pollution emissions to a specified level) can buy/sell permission to emit a certain amount of emissionsfrom/to other emitters (who are below/above their limit). The market price of these permits (called 'pollutioncredits') reflects the marginal cost of emission reduction and gives an emitter the incentive to install andmanage a cost effective pollution control system as an income producing asset. Accumulating emissionsreductions for trading is called 'banking.“Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms – the different plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms, the genesthey contain and the ecosystems of which they form a part”Notes from reading: 4 major science learning areas. Biological, physical, earth and environmentalBiological science: study of living things. What is alive? - plants, the importance of gardening, animals, the humanbodyPhysical science: study of materials and energy in the non-living world. How does it move? - nature of materials, physical and chemical changes, forces and movement of objects, energyEarth science: the study of earth and it's materials. What are non-living things? water, soil, rocks, sand and mud, day and night, weather and seasonsEnvironmental science: the study of caring for the natural world. How can we care for our world? composting, worm farming, recycled materialsProcess skills from EYLF: problem solving, inquiring, experimenting, hypothesising, researching, investigatingDouble click this nodeto edit the textClick and drag this buttonto create a new node