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Science Department Progress Grid
Working Beyond
Blooms
Evaluate
Justify a decision or outcome.
Synthesis
Compile information together or
proposing alternative solutions.
Working At
Analysis
Draw connections between ideas.
Application
Use the information in new
situations.
Working Towards
Understanding
Explain ideas or concepts.
Adaptation and Inheritance– Year 8
I Can Statements
Evaluate data and information given on variation within a
species and suggest how that species can survive or change in a
given environment.
Evaluate the similarities and differences between natural
selection and selective breeding.
Use natural selection to explain how a species may change into
another.
Explain how animals/plants could be cross bred to achieve
offspring with the desired characteristics.
Use simple punnet square or similar genetic diagram to suggest
how characteristics maybe inherited.
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Suggest how plants or animals are adapted to survive in an
environment.
Interpret different variation graphs.
Explain how variation between species and between individuals
of the same species means some organisms compete more
successfully.
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Interpret simple family trees to decide how characteristics are
inherited.
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I can interpret simple family trees to decide how
characteristics are inherited.
Understand that genes are a unit of inheritance which
determine characteristics.
State that genes are made of DNA and found on chromosomes
in the nucleus of a cell.
State that there are 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Know the basic theory of evolution.
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I can state that genes are found on chromosomes
I can state that there are 23 pairs of chromosomes
in the human body.
I can state that 23 chromosomes are found in a
human egg and 23 chromosomes in a human
sperm which join in fertilisation.
I can state that genes are made of DNA.
I can state that animals change gradually over
time.
I can recall where genes are found.
I can recall some examples of inherited and
environmental variation.
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Knowledge
Recall facts and basic concepts.
Recall that genes are found in the nucleus.
Know that genes mean different characteristics.
Know that genes are inherited from mother and fathe.r
Know that some characteristics can be effected by the
environment e.g. accent.
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I can evaluate information and data given and
suggest how a species can survive in a particular
environment.
I can evaluate some similarities and differences
between natural selection and selective breeding.
I can explain Darwin’s theory of evolution using
natural selection.
I can explain how to selectively breed an animal or
plant with the best characteristics to achieve a
new better individual.
I can suggest how different animals and plants
might be adapted to survive in a particular habitat.
I can tell the difference between a continuous and
discontinuous graph and state whether it would be
inherited or environmental variation.
Topic Vocabulary
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Interbreed
Evaluate
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Natural Selection
Selective breeding
Cross
Punnet Square
Dominant
Recessive
Competition
Continuous
Discontinuous
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Species
Adaptation
Genetic family tree
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Genes
DNA
Nucleus
Sperm
Egg
Darwin and
evolution
characteristics
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Environmental
Inherited
Variation