Students will learn about mechanisms of natural selection by gathering and interpreting data and will analyze and explain in writing using the language of science (variation, environmental factors, alleles, genes, competition), graphic organizer and check in partners.
Questions:
- How do variations benefit populations? (book or brain)
- How do you think studying extinct species contributes to our current understanding of species and population? (brain)
- Give an example of variation in a population. (book)
