Evolution and inheritance teaching pack
Full of brightly illustrated PowerPoint presentations and resources, Evolution and inheritance will help your year 5 and 6 children discover how the planet came to be populated with such weird and wonderful living things!
Beginning with the question ‘What is evolution?, the pack looks at adaptation in animals and plants and ends by asking ‘What is extinction?’.
From dinosaur-like lizards to carnivorous plants, this pack has plenty to engage and excite!
What's included?
- 17 supporting resources
- includes introductory activities, main teaching points, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
- links to the curriculum.
What's inside?
Session 1: What is evolution? (pages 1-5)
- Teaching sequence
- What is evolution?
- Sorting life into kingdoms game
Session 2: What causes evolution? (pages 6-14)
- Teaching sequence
- What causes evolution?
- The evolution game
- The evolution of sport game
Session 3: The timescale of evolution (pages 15-21)
- Teaching sequence
- The order of evolution
- Getting to know Charles Darwin
Session 4: What is adaptation? Animal viewpoint (pages 22-32)
- Teaching sequence
- Non-chronological reports – text analysis
- Shark facts – turning notes into a report
- Animal adaptation research framework
- Animal adaptation fact cards
Session 5: What is adaptation? Plant perspective (pages 33-36)
- Teaching sequence
- Amazing plant adaptations
Session 6: What is extinction? (pages 37-40)
- Teaching sequence
- Where have all the dinosaurs gone?
- What are fossils?
- Become a palaeontologist
- Forest Magazine article
- Evolution and inheritance quiz
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