Journey through the eons and take on the challenge of survival. From the earliest vertebrates to modern day mammals, students will explore a whistlestop tour of evolution through gameplay. Can their species survive the ever-changing landscape? Or will they meet their downfall at the hands of their world’s biggest challenge yet: humans.
Age group: KS3
Duration: 50 minutes
Capacity: 30 pupils
Learning Space: Classroom layout – with tables and chairs. Access to projector, computer/laptop and sound necessary.
This workshop will draw from the following KS3 curriculum links:
Science – Working Scientifically
- Make predictions using scientific knowledge and understanding
- Ask questions and develop a line of enquiry based on observations of the real world, alongside prior knowledge and experience.
Biology – Inheritance, chromosomes, DNA and genes
- Differences between species.
- Heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- The variation between species and between individuals of the same species means some organisms compete more successfully, which can drive natural selection.
- Changes in the environment may leave individuals within a species, and some entire species, less well adapted to compete successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction.
Geography – Physical geography: processes and change
- Changing weather and climate – The causes, consequences of and responses to extreme weather conditions and natural weather hazards, recognising their changing distribution in time and space and drawing on an understanding of the global circulation of the atmosphere. The spatial and temporal characteristics, of climatic change and evidence for different causes, including human activity, from the beginning of the Quaternary period (2.6 million years ago) to the present day.