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In the first activity, students hypothesize and discuss why animals have certain traits, then use the fossil record to examine how the structure of a giraffe’s neck provides an adaptive function. In the second activity, students experience first-hand how different characteristics can provide an advantage to individuals by “eating” with distinct “beaks,” graph and analyze…
This box is coming soon! In the first activity, students explore different ecological relationships as a group and how they generate a food web. In the second activity, students act as animals with different diets to survive in a game that simulates resource competition. In the third activity, students explore humans as an ecosystem through…
This box is coming soon! In the first activity, students learn genetic interactions like dominance through a model and our own traits. In the second activity, students explore genetic inheritance with Punnett squares and how genotypes translate to phenotypes. In the third activity, students use their knowledge of inheritance and alleles to solve a crime.…