The Molliebird - An Evolution Story

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Engaging science narrative poem explaining evolution and natural selection in an easy way for children to understand.
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Helping to Support Teaching and Learning

Beautiful Illustrations

The story features delightful illustrations that captivate and enhance children's understanding of evolution.

Primary Science Teaching Trust

The Primary Science Teaching Trust (PSTT) developed this storybook, ensuring it aligns with educational objectives and helps facilitate the teaching of evolution and natural selection.

Child-Friendly Explanations

Provides easy-to-understand explanations of evolution and natural selection. It ensures complex scientific concepts are accessible to children, enhancing their grasp of these important topics.

Address Misconceptions

Helps teachers identify and address common misconceptions children have about inheritance and species changes.

Evolution & Inheritance

Supports Year 6 Science by illustrating how animals and plants adapt to their environment. Demonstrates adaptation leading to evolution, aiding in comprehension of evolution and inheritance topics.

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The Molliebird - An Evolution Story

Engaging science narrative poem explaining evolution and natural selection in an easy way for children to understand.

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  • Teachers will find this book a valuable resource for explaining complex scientific concepts. The beautifully illustrated story of the Molliebird by the Primary Science Teaching Trust (PSTT) offers a fictional context to discuss evolution and natural selection.

  • A natural disaster leaves the bright blue Molliebird, without camouflage in her surroundings. She notices that brown baby birds thrive and so tries painting herself in the hope that her baby birds will be born in the same colour. When this does not work she has to think again…..

  • Using this book, teachers can help children understand how animals and plants adapt to their environment in different ways and how adaptation may lead to evolution. The story also explains the concept of offspring varying from their parents, addressing common misconceptions. By incorporating this engaging science narrative poem, teachers can facilitate meaningful discussions about evolution and natural selection, making these complex topics more accessible for children.

Supports the National Curriculum

Science, Year 6, Evolution & Inheritance

Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

Science, Year 6, Evolution & Inheritance

Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.

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