Teaching evolution is can be a delicate matter depending on the dynamic of the classroom and the community. Try our approach.
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With our detailed lesson plans and tips on how to approach teaching evolution you should be able to manage getting through the unit confidently using our lesson plans, evolution worksheets, activities and labs.
When teaching evolution it is important for your student to understand:
- How it occurs.
- It is supported by a large body of evidence.
For students to understand how it occurs they need to understand that environmental pressure is a major factor in selection for specific traits that allow the organism to survive and reproduce.
Misconception: Individual organisms can evolve.
To introduce students to this concept, you can use our Fish Evolution Activity. Students love this activity and it helps them develop an understanding for how populations can evolve.
One of my go-to websites for teaching natural selection is https://askabiologist.asu.edu/peppered-moths-game/. I have created a worksheet that goes along nicely with this activity (see below to download it!).
Using the animation, students get to see how certain traits (color) allow the organisms to survive better depending on the environment.
Using our Full Biology Curriculum, you will have access to a variety of pre-made games such as Kahoot’s and Quizlet live that will engage your students and help them master the content.
Every unit in the USBT curriculum includes guided notes that will help your students follow along with the notes and highlight key points.
You will be able to move through the notes at reasonable pace instead of having to wait for your students to write down every single word.
In addition to the natural selection activity worksheet, your students will complete an adaptations lab, analyze the selection for tuskless elephants, discuss the adaptation and evolution of skin pigmentation and analyze bones to determine species relatedness.
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“You are the product of 3.8 billion years of evolution, act like it.”