DS has been given this homework worksheet and it's been causing us a bit of angst because DS insists his teacher told him that woolly mammoths evolved into elephants and elk evolved into deer, etc (grr!)
We've had some discussion about "common ancestors" and I've helped him to write something a bit more accurate but I expect it'll all be marked wrong, and most of the kids will be none the wiser by the end of the exercise. [Sigh!]
Wild Boar was an interesting one. Apparently they did evolve into domestic pigs, but wild boar have died out and been reintroduced into Britain several times and there's currently a thriving population, so which box should he tick? I persuaded DS to tick both boxes 1 & 3 in the end (which DS is a bit about), and we've been debating whether to tick box 4 too. It'll be interesting to see what the teacher considers to be the "right" answer!
If it was intended as a Critical Thinking homework I'd be thrilled. But it's not.
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AIBU to be tearing my hair out over this Y5 homework? (Evolution)
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sauvignonBlinko · 15/10/2016 17:32
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