HS-LS4.C: Adaptation Lesson Plans
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Speciation and Genetic Drift Lesson Plan (PDF)
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Worksheet
Students match genetic drift, speciation and extinction vocabulary terms with their definitions.NGSS Standard
HS-LS4.C: Adaptation
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
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Adaptations of Darwin’s Finches Lab Lesson Plan (PDF)
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Experiment
Students participate in an activity that demonstrates how natural selection works by mimicking adaptations of Darwin’s finches. Topics include extinction, competition, generations, survival of the fittest and graphing.NGSS Standard
HS-LS4.B: Natural Selection
HS-LS4.C: Adaptation
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
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Dinosaur Evolution Project Lesson Plan (PDF)
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Project
Students pretend to evolve a dinosaur using Darwin's principles of evolution and watch how the dinosaur adapts to an environmental change. This is a very comprehensive project including natural selection, adaptations, chromosome and point mutations, gene pools, isolation, Mendel genetics, protein synthesis, fossils, ecology, competition,and speciation.NGSS Standard
HS-LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
HS-LS4.B: Natural Selection
HS-LS4.C: Adaptation
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
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Evolution by Natural Selection Student Handout
Teacher Notes
Activity
Principles of natural selection are demonstrated by a simulation involving different color pompoms on different color and texture habitats and student feeders equipped with different types of feeding implement. Students learn how different adaptations contribute to differences in survival and reproductive success, which results in changing frequencies of genotypes in the populations.NGSS Standard
HS-LS4.B: Natural Selection
HS-LS4.C: Adaptation
Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty High School
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Evolution Study Guide Lesson Plan (PDF)
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Worksheet
Students will be able to explain the modern theory of evolution, including: natural selection, the evolution of populations, fossils, Darwin's finches, gene pools, evidence and more important concepts. Hand out this worksheet before introducing evolution. Students are to fill in this worksheet while you teach. Students then use this worksheet as a central place to study from to prepare for a test or quiz.NGSS Standard
HS-LS4.B: Natural Selection
HS-LS4.C: Adaptation
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
More HS-LS4.C: Adaptation lesson plans are in the works.