This unit will support the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum for Geography at KS2. It will expand their awareness of people and places and how people use the earth's natural resources close to home.
By the end of the programme the pupils will have learned about:
This programme will give pupils the opportunity to learn about:
• Some of the plants and animals that live in Lough Neagh
• Some landscape features of Northern Ireland
• Some of the ways people affect the environment locally
• A local habitat and the relationship between the animals and plants found there
• The main stages in the life cycle of eels
• Ordering living things in a simple food chain and understand the dependency of one on the other
The programme is divided into three sections, 'Under the Lough', 'On the Lough' and 'People and the Lough'. The viewer is taken on a journey looking at the variety of plant and animal life making up the local environment. 
