Natural Selection Activities Bundle

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Lessons Included in this Money-Saving Bundle:

1. Natural Selection Notes Presentation with Fill-in-the-Blanks Worksheet: This presentation (both PPT and Google Slides provided) gives students a brief introduction to the topic. As they view the presentation, students fill in blanks on a provided Cloze worksheet.
2. Natural Selection Reading & Questions: Students read about natural selection, including how it occurs because of factors such as overproduction, competition, and variation lead to selection, which over time can lead to speciation.
3. Peppered Moths Online Simulation: Students pretend to be birds eating peppered moths in both light and dark forests! Kids will see for themselves how populations change over time due to natural selection.
4. Natural Selection Graphing Activity: Students learn about a real life situation where scientists tracked natural selection in lizards over many generations. Kids will generate graphs from data to see for themselves how populations change over time due to natural selection.
5. Natural Selection Lab: FLEXIBLE SUPPLIES make this lab easy on you! Students model how different beak types match different food types. Includes a fun group-based “going further” activity.
6. Natural Selection Worksheet: This is a simple and straightforward review of natural selection, including overproduction, variation, competition, and selection. Great for homework!
7. Selection in Modern Birds Article & Questions: Read a brief text about how natural selection is happening to a bird species right under our eyes!
8. Natural Selection Drawing Activity: Effective for true comprehension of natural selection, this worksheet instructs students to design organisms with favorable and unfavorable mutations for their environment.
9. Natural Selection Quiz: This assessment has 10 multiple-choice questions. Two similar versions are provided.

Teacher Notes:

• GO PAPERLESS! Many included activities have both print and Google Slides options to assign.
• Answer keys are always included.
• These natural selection activities are not editable.
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• NGSS MS-LS4-4: Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
• NGSS MS-LS4-6: Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.