Variation in a population is the raw material on which natural selection works. How do scientists measure and quantify variation in traits? We use garden snails as a model organism ...
The following are a series of real world genetics problems that relate to the genetic disorders cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. They may be used to give students practice ...
Inspired by observations of finches on the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin came up with an idea that is perhaps the most influential idea in all of science - natural selection. ...
Big Ideas It is a big concept for students to comprehend, that we live on a dynamic Earth that is continually changing. What is even harder for them to grasp is ...
Performance Tasks Students will be able to design an organism that could live in Pt Reyes, both today and what adaptations it would need in order to live there in one ...
The purpose of this lesson is to start a dialog on the importance of adaptations to a species and individuals survival. In the end students will understand how animals use ...
Students will use their knowledge gained of both the habitats, and types of adaptations that animals use to survive in their environments. They will create a fictitious animal that will ...
Students will use the information they have learned about the evidence scientists use to prove the theory of evolution in a real life look at an authentic question about ...
