Students learn how the properties of air and certain forces make flight possible. They explore how living things use balanced and unbalanced forces to control their flight and investigate how humans create flying machines. Students also deepen their understanding of the impact on the environment caused by different flying machines.

Students explore different forms of life on Earth from animals, to plants, and to microorganisms, and investigate their importance to humans and the environment. They begin to classify organisms. They also begin to make connections between the impact of climate change on biodiversity and how protecting it can have a positive effect.