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Lesson Plans:
Animal
Adaptations
Teaching evolutionary concepts can be tough, especially to young audiences.
The purpose of this demonstration is to introduce a simple concept in
evolution, adaptations. Students learn what an adaptation is by
constructing two animals from different habitats.
Natural
Selection
Introduction to natural selection and the Chi square method of statistical
analysis.
Rat
Islands
This activity allows students to use some of their creativity to imagine
how rats would adapt to a particular island in order to survive. You can
make up a story as elaborate as you want to explain how the rats ended up
on their Island (A, B, C or D) and how
long they have been on the island in order to change so much.
Animal
Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks
This is an activity designed to provide students with a hands-on activity
to help them explore animal adaptations, namely the shape of a bird's beak
in relation to their food source. (adapt for older students)
Toothpick worms
The objective of this lesson is to let students experience the role of
color in camouflage.
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