Year 6 investigating beaks and evolution…

As part of our evolution and inheritance topic we have looked at beaks from a range of birds in South America. We looked at a dip netting beak (a spoon), a coniferous seed eating beak (scissors) and an insect catching beak (tweezers). We had a range of foods too: marbles (to represent hard nuts and seeds), cocktail sticks (stick insects), elastic bands (worms), marshmallows (berries and peas (soft fruits). We all chose a type of beak and predicted the foods we would be able to pick up-we had great fun and there were a few surprises too!