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Meet the evolutionary pioneers

Science Year 6
This unit is part of Year 6 Science The Game of Survival

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Objectives

Meet Darwin, Anning and Wallace - the evolutionary dream team - and find out the scientific importance of their work and have a go at proving their theories. Play fossil, ‘what if’ to top up your survivor score.

Science Objectives
i) Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

Working Scientifically

  1. Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
  2. Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Recognise the role fossils have in the development of evolutionary theory.
  • Learn more about the work of Anning, Darwin and Wallace.

Activities

  1. Research the life and work of Anning, Darwin or Wallace and share as a presentation.
  2. Use given evidence to attempt to back up evolutionary ideas, presenting logical findings.
  3. Play fossil ‘what if’.

Investigation - analysing secondary sources
Meet Darwin, Anning and Wallace and explore the role of fossils in scientific understanding of evolution.

Vocabulary
Evolution, adapted/adaptation, offspring, characteristics, vary/variation, fossils, theory, opinion

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