Adaptation Investigation28 January 2026 (by admin) |
Children in Pioneers and Inventors have been looking at the work of Charles Darwin and learning about how animals are adapted and best suited for their environment.
As part of their learning, the children carried out an investigation to see which tools were best for a specific purpose (picking up different objects). The children were able to apply this to their learning and identify that, in the case of Darwin's studies, finches have different beaks to help them eat different foods. The children were very clear that these adaptations happen over a long time, and could apply this understanding to a variety of animals to explain how evolution works and why it is down to the 'survival of the fittest' in the animal world! They had great fun replicating how birds from the Galapagos Islands would feed and showed excellent collaborative skills (as well as working hard to identify patterns and explain similarities and differences with their findings). Great job everyone!