Evolution and Inheritance-Science- Lesson Six- Fossils

Looking for Evolution and Inheritance Science planning that focuses around a ‘Big Question’ for the whole unit?

More and more schools are expecting all planning to have an overarching question that works across the whole planning. The purpose is to provide a hook for the children and to make every lesson relevant to the final learning outcome.

This is the Sixth lesson of a sequence of planning that focuses around the big question 'How have living things changed to survive? Each lesson in the unit will provide children more and more answers to this question by focusing on a range of studied areas.

Lesson Six explores how fossils suggest evolution and children will explore if these changes have aided survival.

Encourage children to bring in any fossils they have at home.

Success Criteria
*Identify what fossils are
*Analyse transitional fossils and mention evolutionary changes over time
*Suggest reasons for change