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Lesson Plan Elementary School Activity: The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate to the class that it is not cruel or unfair when animals die. It is only natural that the strongest of each species survive while the weak perish. More... |
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Published by Jeffrey Kimber
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Elementary School
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Animal Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks | |
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Lesson Plan Middle School Activity: Students explore how the shape of a bird's beak is best adapted in relation to their food source. This activity provides 8 challenges for students to support or clarify whether or not they proved or disproved their predictions on which "beak" matched with a given food supply. Students will also invent a bird beak to show conceptual understanding of beak shape and its relation to their food supply. More... |
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Published by Kat Plass and Allison Field
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Middle School
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Survival of the Sneakiest - Comic Strip | |
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Lesson Plan High School Worksheet: This comic follows the efforts of a male cricket as he tries to attract a mate, and in the process, debunks common myths about what it means to be evolutionarily "fit." More... |
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Published by Josh Frankel
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High School
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dinosaur_evolution_project.pdf High School Project: Students pretend to evolve a dinosaur using Darwin's principles of evolution and watch how the dinosaur adapts to an environmental change. This is a very comprehensive project including natural selection, adaptations, chromosome and point mutations, gene pools, isolation, Mendel genetics, protein synthesis, fossils, ecology, competition,and speciation. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Dinosaur Evolution Project
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darwin_adaptations_lab.pdf High School Experiment: Students participate in an activity that demonstrates how natural selection works by mimicking adaptations of Darwin’s finches. Topics include extinction, competition, generations, survival of the fittest and graphing. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Peppered Moth Simulation | |
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Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students will simulate how predators locate prey in different environments using forceps, newspaper and colored papers. Students will analyze how color affects an organism's ability to survive in certain environments. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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evolution_study_guide.pdf High School Worksheet: Students will be able to explain the modern theory of evolution, including: natural selection, the evolution of populations, fossils, Darwin's finches, gene pools, evidence and more important concepts. Hand out this worksheet before introducing evolution. Students are to fill in this worksheet while you teach. Students then use this worksheet as a central place to study from to prepare for a test or quiz. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Natural Selection Simulation | |
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Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students model natural selection by using tools such as spoons to "capture" beans and determine the best adaptations for survival. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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Animal Camouflage | |
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Lesson Plan Middle School Activity: Students create a paper moth that is camouflaged with something in the classroom. A partner class sends in "birds" to try to find them. More... |
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Published by Cindy Raiten
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Middle School
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Evolution by Natural Selection | |
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Student Handout Teacher Notes High School Activity: Principles of natural selection are demonstrated by a simulation involving different color pompoms on different color and texture habitats and student feeders equipped with different types of feeding implement. Students learn how different adaptations contribute to differences in survival and reproductive success, which results in changing frequencies of genotypes in the populations. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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More Natural Selection lesson plans are in the works.
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