Details
Pages
44 Pages
Subject
Science, Biology
Languages
English
Product
Digital
Grade
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Resource Type
Activities, Interactives
Standard
Next Generation Science Standards
Description
This remote-learning ready, google slides lesson teaches students all about real-life natural selection examples in interesting, challenging ways. Your students should ALREADY be comfortable with the basics of natural selection before you ask them to complete these more advanced examples. This lesson teaches students about natural selection in a student centered way that involves genuine thoughtfulness and problem solving.
Station One: Students use a video and various text documents to understand why humans evolved a diversity of skin colors. In addition to being truly interesting, this station is a great way to teach students why racial prejudice and colorism are absolutely non-sensical. (In addition to being abhorrent.)
Station Two: Students examine unlabeled skulls and record their similarities and differences. After their initial examination, they learn that the skulls actually belong to a marsupial wolf and a gray wolf, two very distantly related species. They then watch a video explaining the differences between divergent evolution, and explain WHY the marsupial wolf and gray wolf looked so similar, despite their distant relation.
Station Three: Students explain how Darwin and Wallace were able to predict the existence of a moth with a 10 inch long tongue simply by examining an orchid. Then, they examine four additional real life examples of coevolution, explaining in each situation how one species affected the evolution of the other.
Station Four: Students read a comic called "Survival of the Sneakiest" (Not made by me! Can be found for free online here https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/sneakermales_01 ) and explain how natural selection has led to two distinct but successful mating behaviors in male crickets.
Station Five: Students examine documents related to a deadly genetic disease and explain why, even though the disease is deadly, it has persisted in the human population. (Students may choose to examine sickle cell anemia, which has persisted because it confers protection from malaria, or to examine cystic fibrosis, which has persisted because it confers protection from cholera.)
Station One: Students use a video and various text documents to understand why humans evolved a diversity of skin colors. In addition to being truly interesting, this station is a great way to teach students why racial prejudice and colorism are absolutely non-sensical. (In addition to being abhorrent.)
Station Two: Students examine unlabeled skulls and record their similarities and differences. After their initial examination, they learn that the skulls actually belong to a marsupial wolf and a gray wolf, two very distantly related species. They then watch a video explaining the differences between divergent evolution, and explain WHY the marsupial wolf and gray wolf looked so similar, despite their distant relation.
Station Three: Students explain how Darwin and Wallace were able to predict the existence of a moth with a 10 inch long tongue simply by examining an orchid. Then, they examine four additional real life examples of coevolution, explaining in each situation how one species affected the evolution of the other.
Station Four: Students read a comic called "Survival of the Sneakiest" (Not made by me! Can be found for free online here https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/sneakermales_01 ) and explain how natural selection has led to two distinct but successful mating behaviors in male crickets.
Station Five: Students examine documents related to a deadly genetic disease and explain why, even though the disease is deadly, it has persisted in the human population. (Students may choose to examine sickle cell anemia, which has persisted because it confers protection from malaria, or to examine cystic fibrosis, which has persisted because it confers protection from cholera.)
This remote-learning ready, google slides lesson teaches students all about real-life natural selection examples in interesting, challenging ways. Your students should ALREADY be comfortable with the basics of natural selection before you ask them to complete these more advanced examples.... more
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