What can bird beaks tell us about evolution?
Next we’re moving onto an Eating Like a Bird Lab! Your lab template is attached below. We will learn about Charles Darwin and his big idea.
By carefully observing a variety of finches on my islands in the Galapagos, Charles Darwin discovered a scientific concept.
Natural selection is the process where certain traits that have a greater fitness for their environment lead to a reproductive advantage. This process happens within a population over time because of genetic variation through adaptive radiation meaning that over time, groups of organisms from an original population will change as a result of adapting to their environment and will develop into different species.
Videos:
The adaptive radiation of Darwin’s Finches
Assessment Framework “I Can” Self-Checklist for the lab (template attached below, due date to follow)*this will be a practical lab assessment (cooperative group work and lab report will be counted as a test)