Evolution and Inheritance
This science scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets 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. The class can illustrate the work of different scientists who developed theories about evolution and inheritance.
Explore how living things adapt and evolve over time as a result of competition for natural resources and transfer inherited traits to their offspring
Lesson One : Fossils
Explore and record information about some of the different animals and plants that lived millions of years ago by examining a range of special fossils
Lesson Two : Paleontology
Explore and record how scientists such as Mary Anning observed, studied and presented information about a range of different living things from the past
Lesson Three : Extinction
Investigate and record information about some of the changes to living things that have occurred over time and record reasons as to why some animals became extinct
Lesson Four : Genes
Identify and record how living things can produce similar offspring that are not normally identical to each other during the reproduction processes
Lesson Five : Offspring
Conduct research and present findings to illustrate and record how offspring can be similar to their parents as part of the reproduction process
Lesson Six : Human Evolution
Identify and explain some of the special ways that human beings have developed and evolved over millions of years in time
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Family Scenes
Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life
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Homophones Matching
Explore the spelling and meaning of some different words that are homophones by matching and listing pairs of words with the same pronunciations
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Friction
Investigate, describe and test the effects of air and water resistance and friction on different objects and materials presenting results using graphs and tables
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Capacity Conversions
Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres