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Inheritance detective

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

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Objectives

Play inheritance detective and identify inherited and environmental characteristics. Score survival points by identifying examples of variation through the creation of your very own dog Top Trumps cards.

Science Objectives
i) Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.

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.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Personal code card template
  • Hydrangea images
  • Inherited or environmental game
  • Dog Top Trumps template
  • Dog image cross breed cards

Additional resources

  • Class Guess Who photo sheets

Weblinks
Jugs (breeding information) from www.pets4homes.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Identify inherited characteristics in living things.
  • Know that variation occurs within offspring as well as across a species.

Activities

  1. Play class Guess Who and note characteristics that are inherited.
  2. Identify variations between themselves and a classmate.
  3. Create dog breed Top Trumps cards, noting variation across breeds.
  4. 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

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