A great resource

Not only is this jam packed information, it has some great ideas. Bring living things in to the classroom is always a benefit to the students. The activity can be easily fleshed out into a g... See More

Not only is this jam packed information, it has some great ideas. Bring living things in to the classroom is always a benefit to the students. The activity can be easily fleshed out into a group project. I also love it talk of adaption.

Interesting way to get students to make models

I like the idea of having students take an organism and transplant it to another locale and then predict how it might evolve over time to better adapt. My classes look at adaptations for env... See More

I like the idea of having students take an organism and transplant it to another locale and then predict how it might evolve over time to better adapt. My classes look at adaptations for environments and biomes, but I have not tried that extension and it sounds like a creative way to get them to think about natural selection. Maybe they would have to do it by generation, since we generally also do heredity before biomes. I can't wait to try this variation out.