Lessons below address this concept: Traits that are advantageous often persist in a population.
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Lesson Title (Description) Grade Level Lesson Type
Clipbirds
Students learn about variation, reproductive isolation, natural selection, and adaptation through this version of the bird beak activity.
6-8 Classroom activity
Comic strip: Survival of the sneakiest
This comic follows the efforts of a male cricket as he tries to attract a mate, and in the process, debunks common myths about what it means to be evolutionarily "fit."
6-8 Comic
Connecting Population Growth and Biological Evolution
Students develop a model of the mathematical nature of population growth to consider the population growth of plant and animal species and the resulting pressure that contributes to natural selection.
6-8 Classroom activity
Interactive investigation: The arthropod story
This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints.
6-8 Web activity
Mantis shrimp shoulder their evolutionary baggage and bluff
Like all organisms, mantis shrimp carry baggage from their evolutionary history. Find out how this baggage has coaxed them into a deadly bluffing game.
6-8 Article
Similarities and differences: Understanding homology and analogy
This interactive investigation explains what homologies and analogies are, how to recognize them, and how they evolve.
6-8 Tutorial
 


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