During this unit of work, children will explore how animals and plants adapt to the environment in which they live. They will learn that adaptations occur over time and that may lead to a species evolving. Children will conduct an experiment to answer the question: which beak is best adapted to pick up a seed? They will consider how certain adaptations occur in response to environmental conditions. They will learn about natural selection and how this links to inheritance and how some characteristics are inherited from their parents, and some are not.