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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9A: Inheritance and selection
Section 12: Reviewing work

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to bring together ideas about inherited characteristics, fertilisation and selective breeding

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Provide pupils with a set of structured questions covering the work in this unit. Ask them to use their books and other sources of information to answer the questions.
  • Discuss their answers with them, identifying particular difficulties and, if appropriate, provide a set of exemplar answers.
  • use ideas and concepts accurately in answering questions

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1. What characteristics can be inherited?
2. Why are offspring of the same parents similar but not identical?
3. a. How do differences between offspring with the same parents compare with differences between offspring of different parents?
4. b. How do differences between offspring with the same parents compare with differences between offspring of different parents?
5. How are new breeds of animal produced?
6. Checking progress
7. Why do farmers produce new breeds of animals?
8. a. How are new varieties of plant produced?
9. b. How are new varieties of plant produced?
10. Are varieties produced by selective breeding different from each other?
11. What is a clone?
12. Reviewing work