Big Ideas for Little People

by: Cynthia McIntyre, Trudi Lord, and Paul Horwitz

The Evolution Readiness project introduces fourth-grade students to a series of big ideas that would lead them to understand the theory of evolution by natural selection. The goal in developing this project was to cover the fundamental concepts that underlie Darwin's theory.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 10/1/2012Stock # sc12_050_02_42Volume 050Issue 02

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Evolution for Young People?

This interesting article describes a program in which young children learned the big ideas of evolution. Long time spans and invisible concepts such as genes were left out because young stu... See More

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