Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Variation

Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Variation

In this Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Variation lesson, students will state what causes variation and give examples. They will learn about the difference between inherited and environmental variation.

The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.

This lesson includes:

• Title slide with learning objectives
• A starter activity
• Group reading (literacy)
• Keywords (vocabulary: variation, characteristics, environmental variation, inherited variation and species)
• Task boxes
• Discussion exercise
• Comprehension questions
• Answer slides included for self-assessment

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Next Lesson: Continuous and Discontinuous Variation

In this lesson students will explain the difference between continuous and discontinuous variation, then choose and plot an appropriate graph for each type of variation.

Lessons for Key Stage 3, Year 8 Biology Topic 3 Adaptation and Inheritance

1. Competition
2. Adapting to Change
3. Variation
4. Continuous and Discontinuous Variation
5. Inheritance
6. Natural Selection
7. Extinction
8. Adaptation and Inheritance End of Topic Revision Lesson