Tuning in
A tuning in activity helps students to define and focus on the issues they will be dealing with in the unit of work.
Finding Out
Students will need to obtain more information about the issues they are going to investigate. They can identify questions of interest and research these either in small groups or on their own. Once information is gathered, it can be shared using chosen communication methods e.g. short presentations. Students can continue finding out by completing a range of investigations, including gathering data. They use appropriate methods to present and communicate what they have found out.
- Darwin versus Wallace – Year 10
- Acclimation versus adaptation – Year 10
- Natural selection experiments – Year 10
- Natural selection simulation – Year 10
- Speciation – Year 10
- Evidence for evolution – Year 10
- Fossil music – Year 10
- Homologous structures in humans – Year 10
- Out of Africa – Year 10
- Phylogenetic Tree – Flipped Classroom – Year 10
- Help a hominin get onto Facebook – Year 10
- Human evolution and collective learning – Year 10
- Future evolution – Year 10
Drawing Conclusions
Students are provided with activities that help them further develop their ideas and opinions. T hey describe issues from different perspectives. They identify, examine and justify different points of view.
Assessment and Reflection
Reflection time provides students with an opportunity to value what they have learnt and the learning processes in which they have been involved. Evaluation or assessment tasks during the unit of work will need to conclude.