EvoLOOTion

Building Blocks Students will gain:
– The ability to recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

Curriculum links Students will be working scientifically to:
– Understand how heredity is the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next.
– Understand the variation between species and between individuals of the same species means some organisms compete more successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction.
– Explore changes in the environment may leave individuals within a species, and some entire species, less well adapted to compete successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction.

Beyond the curriculum Students will have the opportunity to:
– Explore how random mutations work and how this affects genes and inheritance.
– Discover more about natural selection and the environment affects different species.