Age Suitability: S1 - S4
Availability: Edinburgh Zoo, Highland Wildlife Park
Lesson Duration: 50 minutes
What to expect:
A tour-based session, focusing on evolutionary processes such as biological fitness, speciation, survival of the fittest as well as introducing artificial selection. Taking these processes and relating them back to the animals in our care by examining physiological and behavioural characteristics.
Curriculum links:
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BGE:
SCN 3-05b
SCN 4-01a -
National 4/5 Biology:
Nat 5: Unit 3.4.b; 3.4.c; 3.4d; 3.5 -
Higher/Advanced Higher Biology:
Higher Unit 1.7.a; 1.7.c; 1.7.d & 3.8.d
Adv. Higher Unit 2.2.c.ii
Learning for sustainability goals:
- 12. Responsible Consumption and Production
- 13. Climate Action
- 15. Life on land
- 17. Partnership for the Goals
