Year 6 have studied evolution and inheritance recently, looking at adaptations as part of their science enquiry. Learning more about how animals adapt to their environment, groups created their own experiment and set about testing different beak sizes. The investigation used theory from Charles Darwin’s finches and they used practical items to simulate a bird’s beak.
Would a spoon give a better result than a straw? Would skittles be easier to pick up than wheat hoops? Only Year Six have the answers! As scientists, they carried out the investigation using predictions, recording accurately, created a results table before evaluating their findings.
Here are some photographs to show what they did.