Week 9 blog
This week we learned about natural selection and how it affects nature. Natural selection is the process in which certain traits become more or less common over time based on environmental factors. In the lab this week we were able to model this by picking up colored beans with different utensils. Forks and spoons had the best results when picking up the beans, while knives struggled to pick up the beans. When we would start a new round there would be fewer knives up until there were none, and this is because natural selection allowed for the knife to be eliminated due to it not performing when picking up the beans. I think this would be a great activity for upper elementary students to gain an understanding of natural selection. I would 100% use this activity In my future classroom because I had fun doing this activity.
Hi Monet!
ReplyDeleteI really appreciated your thorough explanation of the new information that you learned this week. I also think that the simulation activities we utilized in class would be beneficial to use with our future students. They were both engaging, and very informative. Great job :)
Hey Monet! I also really enjoyed the game in lab this week. I thought that it did a really good job making a typical chunk of content more visual and applicable to us! I can totally envision it helping future students who may not understand adaptation or evolution by just talking about it.
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