❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT
Children will be asked to bring photos in of themselves when they were younger and of parents, grandparents or siblings.
️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Biography about Charles Darwin.
🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Outdoor learning in the school grounds and drama lessons in natural habitats.
What is variation? To recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.
What are inherited characteristics? To recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.
Recording data and results of increasing complexity, using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar charts and line graphs.
What are adaptations? To identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
How do animals adapt to their habitats? To identify how animals are adapted to suit their environment
How do plants adapt to their habitats? To identify how plants are adapted to suit their environment
How have animals evolved? To identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
Who was Charles Darwin? To use relevant scientific language and illustrations to discuss, communicate and justify their scientific ideas and should talk about how scientific ideas have developed over time.
Why do birds have different beaks? Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and a degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
🏁 SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW
Performance of job adverts to try and persuade the class to take the job.
📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)
Evolution and Inheritance by Nichola Tyrrell
The DNA book: Discover what makes you you.
Mary Anning (Science superstars) by Robert Snedded
Our Hairy Past: Evolution and Life on Earth by Nancy Dickmann