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Comparing Explanatory Models

Author/Source: MUSE
Overview:This series of lessons introduces students to evolutionary reasoning and to the explanatory power of the Darwinian model of natural selection.
Concepts:This lesson covers the following concepts:
  • Scientific ideas are developed through reasoning.
  • Science does not prove or conclude; science is always a work in progress.
  • Science corrects itself.
  • Science is not based on popular opinion.
  • Science is non-dogmatic.
  • Theories are central to scientific thinking.
  • Science is a human endeavor.
  • The story of the evolution of living things is always being refined as we gather more evidence.
Grade Level:9-12
Time:Two to nine class periods.
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