In Science, Year 5 have been learning about evolution and how things adapt over time.
We learnt about Darwin’s finches – a study conducted by Charles Darwin where he explained why different birds had different beaks. Darwin hypothesised that birds with long, pointy beaks had adapted in order to eat insects. On the other hand, birds with shorter, sharp beaks had adapted to eat hard fruits.
We conducted an experiment to see which beaks would be better suited to eat sunflower eats. We used chopsticks to represent the long, pointy beaks with chopsticks and tweezers to represent the shorter, sharp beaks.
Ask your child which instrument was better for picking up the sunflower seeds and therefore what we concluded from this experiment!