Year 6 Term: Autmn 1 and 2 Topic/ Title: The Wonders of Ancient China Knowledge, Skills and Understanding Hook: Science Skills Resources Creative Arts Suggested Texts/ Reading Links Evolution and inheritance Various information books Sketches of Charles Darwins’ Pupils should be taught to: Charles Darwin. Finches evolution images The Willow pattern that living things have Key vocabulary: Make clay terracotta Stories from the Dynasties recognise changed over time and that fossils Evolution, adaptation, soldiers provide information about living Create a Chinese Dragon for Pupils might work scientifically by: things that inhabited the Earth Chinese New Year Observing and raising questions millions of years ago. Paint Willow Pattern plates about local animals and how they that living things and cups recognise are adapted to their environment. produce offspring of the same kind, Make fortune cookies but normally offspring vary and are Comparing how some living not identical to their parents. things are adapted to survive in how animals and plants identify extreme conditions, for example, are adapted to suit their cactuses, penguins and camels. environment in different ways and They might analyse the that adaptation may lead to advantages and disadvantages of evolution. specific adaptations, such as being on two feet rather than four, having a long or a short beak, having gills or lungs, tendrils on climbing plants, brightly coloured and scented flowers.
Year 6 Term: Autmn 1 and 2 Topic/ Title: The Wonders of Ancient China Knowledge, Skills and Understanding Hook: Science Skills Evolution and inheritance Pupils should be taught to: recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. Resources Various information books Charles Darwin. Key vocabulary: Evolution, adaptation, Pupils might work scientifically by: Observing and raising questions about local animals and how they are adapted to their environment. Comparing how some living things are adapted to survive in extreme conditions, for example, cactuses, penguins and camels. They might analyse the advantages and disadvantages of specific adaptations, such as being on two feet rather than four, having a long or a short beak, having gills or lungs, tendrils on climbing plants, brightly coloured and scented flowers. Creative Arts Sketches of Charles Darwins’ Finches evolution images Make clay terracotta soldiers Create a Chinese Dragon for Chinese New Year Paint Willow Pattern plates and cups Make fortune cookies Suggested Texts/ Reading Links The Willow pattern Stories from the Dynasties