Learning outcomes
Students will gain a better understanding of the principle of natural selection and its power to produce directional change in only a few generations. They will also gain experience of planning investigations, and collecting and analysing data.
Curriculum links
England Key Stage 3
- Scientific Thinking
- Using scientific ideas and models to explain phenomena and developing their creativity to generate and test theories
- Critically analyse and evaluate evidence from observations and experiments
- Practical and Enquiry Skills
- Organisms and Health – all living things show variation, can be classified and are independent, interacting with each other and their environment
Wales Key Stage 3
- Scientific Enquiry
- Investigative skills
- Planning an investigation
- Obtaining information
- Analysing information
- Evaluating information
- Variation, Classification and Inheritance
- Living Things in their Environment
Scotland
- SCN 3-01a
- I can sample and identify living things from different habitats to compare their biodiversity and can suggest reasons for their distribution.
- I’m A Worm, Get Me Out of Here also allows students to develop the following skills outlined in the Curriculum for Excellence Principles and Practice:
- Ask questions or hypothesise
- Plan and design procedures and experiments
- Select appropriate samples, equipment and other resources
- Observe, collect, measure and record evidence
Northern Ireland
- Science: Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
- Develop skills in scientific methods of enquiry to further scientific knowledge and understanding
- Develop a range of practical skills, including the safe use of scientific equipment
- Interdependence of plants and animals
