Learning activity

• Recap on variation: Humans are all different but have major similarities, such as two legs.
  
• Discuss ways in which the students think they are similar to their parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters.
  
• Show pictures of two different dogs. Ask the class to draw a puppy.
  
• Discuss their pictures as a class.
  
• Student should record in their books what features their puppy has inherited.
  
• What could happen to the puppy to alter how it looks (environmental factors)?

Learning outcomes

• Explain that inherited features are acquired from the parents.
  
• Describe how inherited features can be altered by the environment.
  
• Predict some different combinations in offspring.

Extension work

• Design titles/headings for display of dogs and puppies.
  
• Add pictures of variation from environment.

Special needs

Black puppy + white puppy = black/grey/spots?