Primary Theme: Living things
Y1/2 (A): Lesson 3: Wild and garden plants
Identifying wild and garden flowering plants in the outdoors and grouping similar flowers together. This lesson is part of the mixed-age scheme.
Lesson 3: Measuring animal footprints
Hunting for animal tracks outdoors and using rulers to measure and compare animal footprints.
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Lesson 3: Germination
Gathering and recording test results in a table and comparing the data to find out what seeds need to germinate.
Lesson 3: Wild and garden plants
Identifying wild and garden flowering plants in the outdoors and grouping similar flowers together.
Lesson 3: Adaptations
Identifying adaptations of different living things and explaining how it helps the organism to survive.
Living things: Evolution and inheritance
Exploring inheritance and evolution by investigating how characteristics can be inherited or influenced by the environment.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Define and identify variation in organisms and recall that it is caused by inherited and environmental factors.
- Recall that living things produce offspring of the same kind but are not normally identical to their parents.
- Describe patterns of inheritance from parent to offspring in a given example or family tree.
- Describe what an adaptation is; it cannot be chosen and is usually inherited.
- Describe key characteristics that would help an organism to survive and explain how an adaptation helps the organism to survive.
- Explain how variation may affect survival within a population and recall what natural selection means.
- Recall what evolution is, identify differences between a living thing and its ancestor and describe key steps in the evolution of a species.
- Recall different types of evidence that can be used to explain evolution and describe methods that make scientists’ results or conclusions more trustworthy.
When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Sort variation as environmental, inherited or a mixture of both.
- Evaluate a method by recalling variables that were effectively kept the same and those that were harder to control.
- Comment on the reliability of the results and the degree of trust.
- Consider how evidence is used to form theories and the degree of trust the evidence offers.
Please note that Kapow Primary Science lessons are designed to be 1 hour and 30 minutes long to reflect the requirements of a core subject.
Suggested prior learning
Living things: Classifying big and small
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Variation
Lesson 2: Inheritance
Lesson 3: Adaptations
Lesson 4: Modelling natural selection
Lesson 5: Evolution
Lesson 6: Evidence for evolution
Key skills
- Raising questions throughout the enquiry process.
- Selecting the most appropriate enquiry method to answer questions and give justification.
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Key knowledge
- Living things have changed over time.
- Fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
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Key vocabulary
adaptation
anomaly
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
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Sticky notes (including green ones)
×8 - Dice ×15
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Shallow containers or dishes (such as petri dishes)
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Differently-sized or shaped tweezers
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Stopwatches
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Dried rice
×8
The equipment below is optional
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Different dried foods such as pasta, lentils or cake sprinkles
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Science
Knowledge organiser: Science – Y6: Living things: Evolution and inheritance
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Evolution and inheritance’.
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Vocabulary display – Science Y6: Living things: Evolution and inheritance
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Evolution and inheritance'.
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