Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to understand how living things have evolved and changed over millions of years, a shared reading text to explain the work of Darwin and his theory of evolution by natural selection and a set of cards to identify and suggest how humans could evolve and change in the future in response to different scenarios.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and and explain how human beings have developed and evolved over millions of years in time.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to explore how living things adapt and evolve over time as a result of competition for natural resources and transfer inherited traits to their offspring. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.