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[Teacher Page] IntroductionIntroduction

This activity can demonstrate how natural selection works and is an important factor in evolution. The idea is to show how less adapted creatures might die off because of there lack of something they need to take in their food source. It’s a simple hour activity that also will help the students be active while driving home the lesson.

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Your are groups of finches who all have different adaptations to your environment. You must seek and hunt for food to survive the other groups are your competition. How well do you think you can compete with the other finches given your tool.

1.Write a hypothesis2.What factors besides the tool your group had came into play?3.Write a few paragraphs on how this is connects to Darwin's experiments.4.Draw a or find a picture on what your finch might have looked like given your tool or “beak”.5.Rate your teammates on cooperation 1-5.

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1. First you will need 5 groups of students of equal numbers once they are broken up you assign each group an adaptation. In this case they will be knife, spoon, fork, two toothpicks and two fingers on a hand. Also each group will have a cup to store their food in.

2. Head to the taped off square that the teacher has sent the beans in.

3. Collect as many beans as you can in 1 minute.4. The group with the least number of beans goes

extinct 5. Count the beans that are left and add 1 bean per

bean left to simulate the next generation6. Repeat until only one finch family is left

The ProcessThe Process

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Write Valid hypothesis

Wrote a hypothesis Wrote a hypothesis that followed material.

Wrote a hypothesis that made sense followed the material and could be proven or disproven

Wrote a valid sensible, testable hypothesis that related to the material and could be plugged into the scientific method

Under- standing of the connection to material

Essay written and makes sense.

Essay written makes sense and connects to the learned material

Easy is to the point makes sense can be connected to the material and very few spelling and grammatical errors

Easy is to the point makes sense can be connected to the material and almost no spelling and grammatical errors

Picture

Drawn Drawn properly with the tool incorporated

Drawn properly with the tool in a creative way

Very neatly drawn with a creative aspect and went the extra effort.

cooperation

Students rated average of1

Students rated average of 2

Students rated average of 3

Students rated average of 4 if average is 5 there will be a bonus point.

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This was to teach all of you how survival of the fittest naturally occurs and how Darwin observed this with his finches. How do your group do did you survive?

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Lesson plan based on a lab from http://www.lessonplansinc.com/biology_lesson_plans_darwin_evolution.php

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