Overview
Students will get an overview of how the selection process of evolution occurs.
Objectives/Goals
- Synthesize, communicate, and evaluate claims that changes in environmental conditions will affect survival strategies of populations.
- Construct an explanation based on evidence for how an adaptation leads to differential survival and reproduction of organisms.
- Analyze evidence to predict how changes in gene frequency within a population can alter its survival and reproduction.
- Evaluate evidence to predict how changes in environmental conditions will affect the fitness of a species.
- Synthesize, evaluate and communicate how selection pressures, adaptations can affect biodiversity on earth.
Procedure
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Students will watch an Edpuzzle on Evolution 101 and answer the questions throughout. You will need to assign the Edpuzzle to the students so that they are not accessing the editable version with answers.
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At the end of the video, students will be directed to Mentimeter to create a word cloud.
- Students will use one or two words that give the overall concept/theme they gathered about evolution from this video.
If completing virtually as a class:
- The instructor can share the video and have students answer the questions together.
- The instructor can share the word cloud instead of through canvas.
If learners are completing on their own:
- The instructor will need to give 24 hours for the completion of video questions and word cloud.
- The following day, post the word cloud results in canvas, embedded or as a screenshot.