Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Identify inherited characteristics in living things.
- Know that variation occurs within offspring as well as across a species.
Activities
- Play class Guess Who and note characteristics that are inherited.
- Identify variations between themselves and a classmate.
- Create dog breed Top Trumps cards, noting variation across breeds.
- Use observed characteristics and simple dominant and recessive genes model to’ breed’ dogs.
Investigation - exploring, analysing secondary sources
Identify things that are inherited and things that are learned.
Explore variation through dog breeds.
Vocabulary
Offspring, characteristics, vary/variation, inherit/inheritance, environmental variation