Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Continuous/Discontinuous Variation

Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Continuous/Discontinuous Variation

In this Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Continuous/Discontinuous Variation lesson, students will explain the difference between continuous and discontinuous variation, then choose and plot an appropriate graph for each type of 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)
• Task boxes
• Numeracy task
• Answer slides included for self-assessment

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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