Evolution and inheritance-Science- Lesson Two- Inheritance

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More and more schools are expecting all planning to have an overarching question that works across the whole planning. The purpose is to provide a hook for the children and to make every lesson relevant to the final learning outcome.

This is the Second lesson from a sequence of planning that focuses around the big question/unit question 'How have living organisms changed to survive?

This lesson looks at what is inherited in species to help them survive. The purpose of this second lesson:

• Understand how characteristics are passed on from parents to their offspring.
  *Identify what species have inherited to help them to survive.
  *Explain how potential survival is threatened if certain features are not inherited.
• Name a feature that could be improved/ evolved to help increase a creatures chance of survival.

This session also includes an activity, a presentation to guide the lesson, differentiation and links to good quality learning videos.