Inheritance Worksheets

Five pages of worksheets that can be used when teaching Year 6 Evolution and Inheritance.

The worksheets focus on inherited characteristics with an activity that focuses on sliding scales to decide whether it it inherited or acquired or whether it may fall somewhere inbetween such as hair colour.

There are then questions getting pupils to consider why hair and eye colour can be inherited or acquired.

The final worksheets focus on family trees and looking at what a child has inherited from different people in the family, considering the roles different people in the family may play including grandparents.

All the sheets can also provide rich discussion as a class in considering different elements of inheritance.