Learning objective
Knowledge
- To recognise the inheritance of characteristics in plants and animals.
Success criteria
Knowledge
- I can compare
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National curriculum
Science
Evolution and inheritance
Pupils
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Cross-curricular links
English
Spoken language
Pupils should be taught
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Display the Presentation: Variation in dogs and hand out a whiteboard and pen (one between two). Ask the children to work in pairs to list the variations between these breeds of dogs.
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Should use the Activity: Inheritance family tree to help identify variations that have been inherited or affected by the environment and use these prompts to draw the other sibling.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should consider the ethics of selectively breeding animals and plants and whether it is right to make these decisions or whether the rules should vary for different types of living things.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying variation within a species and
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Knowledge outcomes
- I can compare characteristics between individuals from the same species and describe these as variation.
- I can identify variation that is inherited that affects an individual’s characteristics.
- I can recall that living things produce offspring of the same kind but are not normally identical to their parents.
- I can describe patterns of inheritance from parent to offspring.
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Vocabulary definitions
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breed (verb)
To produce offspring.
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family tree
A diagram that shows how people are linked together within a family.
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Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 17th October, 2024
