Encourage discussion and promote scientific thinking with these Year 6 Evolution and Inheritance Concept Cartoons. They feature a range of common misconceptions that can be unpicked as pupils explain their viewpoints. Encourage them to use evidence from their learning to justify if a statement is true. This will also help you to identify any gaps in children's understanding so that these can be targeted quickly. This resource features two statements: 'Physical adaptions take place during an animal's lifetime' and 'Skills can be inherited from parents.'

They are flexible in their use, meaning they could be used at the beginning or end of a topic. They are also ideal for display - ensuring a knowledge rich environment to further young minds.

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Year 6 National Curriculum link/objective:

• identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

• 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