The study of ecology affords an excellent opportunity to fulfil the additional objectives of Standard Grade Biology. The approach is investigative. Knowledge and understanding of ecological principles can be arrived at through the investigation of an ecosystem. Such an investigation allows the development of a variety of experimental and investigatory skills in a fieldwork context. Most pupils possess an interest in living things and a curiosity about “how they work”; this attitude is the major prerequisite for this topic.

There are links with other curricular areas, those with geography being particularly obvious. The approach taken in this topic focuses on the underlying biological principles..

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