Evolution and inheritance
Why this, why now
This unit explores how living things have changed over time, using fossils as evidence of past life. It covers how offspring vary from parents and how adaptation leads to evolution. Emphasis is on planning scientific enquiries, recording data, and evaluating scientific evidence.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
Unit 5 / 8
Evolution and inheritance
This unit explores how living things have changed over time, using fossils as evidence of past life. It covers how offspring vary from parents and how adaptation leads to evolution. Emphasis is on planning scientific enquiries, recording data, and evaluating scientific evidence.
14 lessons- Family trees (non-statutory)
- More about plant adaptations
- Plant adaptations
- What fossils can tell us about the past
- Evolution: presentation
- Animal adaptations
- Where fossils are found (non-statutory)
- How living things have changed over time
- Human skulls: using evidence from the past (non-statutory)
- The survival of the fittest
- Charles Darwin and finches
- Inherited characteristics
- Offspring: similar but not identical
- Evolution: evidence