Evolution and Inheritance: How Living Things Change

Categories: Key Stage 2, Science
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About Course

How do we know living things have changed over millions of years? In this Year 6 course you will use fossils as evidence, learn why children look like their parents but not exactly the same, explore amazing adaptations and discover how Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace explained evolution.

Tutwoo Kids is an independent learning service. This course is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department for Education, Ofqual or any exam board, and Tutwoo Kids certificates are not qualifications. Content was checked against the national curriculum for England in October 2026.

What Will You Learn?

  • Explain how fossils show that living things have changed Describe inheritance and variation Give examples of animal and plant adaptations Explain natural selection in simple steps

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Fossils: clues from the past
  • Inheritance and variation
  • Adaptation: built to survive
  • Evolution: Darwin, Wallace and natural selection

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