Week 10

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 1. What did you learn this week? 

This week we learned about the drivers for evolution, natural selection and migration. We learned that the four drivers for evolution are natural selection, gene drifts, migration, and mutation. Natural selection means that living organisms will adapt and change to their environment. gene drifts is when there is random fluctuations in the frequency of alleles within a population. We also did a fun bean lab that taught us about natural selection. We each had a different utensil and we were supposed to pick up as many beans (food) as we could in 30 seconds. I started with the popsicle stick and it was so hard to pick up the beans. It would be hard for animals with long beak to pick up their food. 

2. Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew? 

I knew about natural selection and how it was survival of the fittest but I liked being able to have a hands on activity to relate it back to. I never thought about how hard it could be for certain animals with longer beaks to eat their food. 

3. How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?

I think this hands on activity could be a great in class activity for students to learn about natural selection. I liked how after each round the person with the lowest score switched utensils because it gave everyone the opportunity to see the difference. Plus it made it fair and I could see young kids getting upset if they were always the ones getting the lowest number. 

Bean Lab Hypothesis: 

1. If one of the other predators is able to get more prey, then the other predators will not be able to survive because there is not enough food. 

2. If there are too many predators in the environment, then there will not be enough food for all of the predators to survive and grow. 


Lab results 

Natural selection bean lab





Comments

  1. Kaitlyn ReddenDecember 15, 2024 at 9:56 PM

    Faith, I like the idea of giving a similar lesson like we did to students to help them understand. What do you plan to do before this lesson to give students a base understanding?

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