Learning at Home week 9: Fossils and Evolution
This list contains resources suitable for children learning at home. They link to the BBC Bitesize Daily Science programme for week 9 on fossils and evolution.
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- Teacher guidance
- Activity sheet
Teacher guidance
Longest bone
Dinosaurs- Ages 5-7
Help children to create a life-size paper model of Dippy the Dinosaur high bone. They then measure the length of their own thigh bone and compare it to the length of Dippy’s.
Evolutionary History of Life
Evolution - Ages 9-11
This resource links to evolution and inheritance, providing a video of a news report on the history of life on Earth. A newsreader highlights the progression of some species from ‘simple’ life such as single celled organisms progressing to more complex organisms at different stages in evolutionary history, explaining that animals we see today have evolved over millions of years.
Activity sheet
Evolution - Darwin's Finches *suitable for home learning*
Evolution - Ages 9-11
Find out how finches in the Galapagos Islands and the different adaptations that they have. Then use the bird images to find out where they are found in the world, their habitat and food source.
